No fewer than 15 corpses have been recovered from flooded River Ngadabul in Maiduguri. The North East Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammad Usman, confirmed the development on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri. Usman said the cases of...
Borno state
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri on Tuesday ordered for fresh elections to be conducted for the election of candidate for House of Representatives for Askira- Uba/ Hawul Federal Constituency of Borno State. The Presiding Judge, Justice Jude Dagat, in her judgement ordered...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The lawmaker representing Marte, Nganzai and Monguno Federal Constituency, Hon. Mohammed Tahir Monguno has commended Governor Babagana Zulum over his strategic and transformational developmental projects. Hon. Monguno, who gave the commendation on Monday while speaking with journalists in Monguno LGA of the state. The...
No fewer than 200 patients benefit from Borno’s free kidney dialyses monthly. Dr Garga Adama, Head of Department, Internal Medicine, at the State Specialist Hospital where the dialyses take place, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on Monday. He said Gov. Babagana Zulum...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reiterated his administration’s commitment to sustain support to the military and other security agencies in the fight against insurgency. Governor Zulum gave the assurance on Sunday in Monguno during his visit to the headquarters of Sector 3 of Operation Hadin Kai and Multinational...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on the occasion of his 53rd birthday on Thursday. The President’s congratulatory message was in a statement issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Friday in Abuja. President Buhari expressed his admiration for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Friday directed the state Urban Development Board and the Borno State Police Command to unsealed the Borno State NNPP Secretariat in Maiduguri, describing the board’s decision as “wrong timing”. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, confirmed in a statement...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has distance itself from the sealing up of a residential building that was alleged to have been illegally converted to a Secretariat by the acclaimed leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Heavily armed police operatives from the Borno State Command on Thursday sealed off the state secretariat office of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) located along Abbaganaram Customs Road, Maiduguri. In the course of the raid, the police also arrested the NNPP senatorial candidate...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Cameroonian Government and the Borno State Government will jointly repatriate thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in some parts of Minawawo refugee camp in Cameroon Republic The Governor of Far -North Region of Cameroon, Mr Midjiyawa Bakari, who is also the sitting...
Scores of ISWAP terrorists have been killed by Nigerian Air Force, NAF, military jets at the enclave of Fiya Ba Yuram, in Sambisa Forest, over the weekend. PRNigeria gathered that Fiya Ba Yuram, a notorious terrorist, is the current Leader of ISWAP at Sambisa forest. He took over the...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has renewed the commitment of humanitarian community to supporting Borno and others hit by humanitarian crisis. Schmale made this known in Maiduguri on Thursday to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day, graced by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Allow me to recall that...
More than 7,264 persons are to benefit from Federal Government’s Grant for Vulnerable Groups (GVG) programme in Borno. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, announced this on Wednesday while inaugurating the programme in Maiduguri. Farouq said the programme started in 2020 as...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari is set to visit to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Thursday, August 18, 2022. The visit is the third working visit by the president to Maiduguri in one year after that of June 17 and December 23 in 2021. In...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has inaugurated Transitional Justice Panels and Community Reconciliation Committees to facilitate transitional justice and reconciliation in North East. In his speech at the occasion, the Executive Secretary of NHRC, Chief Tony Ojukwu, said the transitional justice project was being implemented in partnership with...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur has congratulated the prominent business mogul, Alh. Dr. Muhammadu Indimi OFR on the occasion of his conferment with Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, by the prestigious University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID). Hon. Kadufur said the conferment of Honorary...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of Aisha Alkali Wakil, a.k.a Mama Boko Haram, alongside Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyede on a three count charge of conspiracy and stealing of public funds to the tune...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National President of the Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA), Mrs. Salamatu Yahaya has commissioned a primary school and secretariat complexes at the 7 Division, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri, in Borno state. The projects were built in other to provide working and teaching environments...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government commenced the training of 200 middle administrative Cadre Officers (GL08 to 13) to enhance productivity and efficiency in the state civil service The training is organized by the office of the State Head of Service in collaboration with the Association...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in Borno State, on Tuesday in Maiduguri, commended Governor Babagana Zulum for the release of N705 million to clear outstanding leave grant owed workers. Governor Zulum had on Tuesday, 2nd August,...