In a bid to motivate soldiers and give them a sense of belonging, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday organised a Sallah “get-together” for wounded soldiers in Yola.

Speaking at the ceremony, Buratai said the gesture was to motivate the gallant soldiers who were fighting insurgency.

Represented by Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, Col. Aba Popoola, the army chief said the gesture was also an expression of love to the wounded soldiers and their families, especially during this festive period.

“This is not the first of its kind; if you can recall, the Chief of Army staff had organised a similar event in Damaturu for the gallant soldiers,” he said.

He expressed satisfaction that the wounded soldiers were responding positively to treatment.

According to him, the soldiers were from the 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, and 28 Task Force Brigade in Mubi and some from Gwoza in Borno State.

Responding on behalf of the soldiers, Cpl. Jonathan Okiki thanked the chief of army staff for identifying with them and their families.

” We assure you sir, that as soon as we leave the hospital, we will be eager to go back to the battle field to fight Boko Haram,” Okiki said.

The Lagos State Residents Registration Agency (LASRRA) has said that registered residents can now collect their permanent residency cards from the Local Government or Council Development Areas where they live.

According to a statement issued by Agency, there is a need to decentralise the collection of permanent residency cards for residents who had earlier participated in the on-going residents registration exercise.

While noting that many residents from the various Local Government and Council Development Areas in the State had registered at their different locations, it emphasized that it became expedient to distribute the cards to them at their different LGAs/LCDAs so as to ease the collection process.

The statement stressed that as part of strategy put in place to ensure a hitch free collection and distribution process by the Agency, every resident will receive a short message (SMS) from LASRRA as soon as their cards are ready for collection.

To this end, the Agency charged residents whose registration telephone contact details have changed to urgently notify LASRRA through the help desk lines: 01-4483440 and 01-4483450.

The Agency, however, disclosed that it is only the Permanent Registration Cards of Civil/Public Servants that can now be collected at the LASRRA Headquarters at 4, Registration Close, Off Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja.