By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with the governments of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states, has launched a kickoff workshop for the GPE-AF project aimed at enhancing education and learning for children in North East Nigeria. The UNICEF Acting Chief of...
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The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has described the performance of troops in the recent operations to clear the remnants of terrorists in the North-East as outstanding. Lagbaja made this known in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri, where he celebrated Eid-el Kabir...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has completed the rehabilitation and re-stringing of the four vandalised towers along the Jos–Gombe 330 Kilo Volt (kV) transmission line. TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, in a statement on Tuesday, said that the towers supplied...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has said its contractors are working tirelessly to erect four new transmission towers along the Jos-Gombe axis. The company said this is to enable it restore power supply to states in the North Eastern part of the country,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Sunday travelled to Malam-Fatori, the headquarters of Abadam Local Government Council in the Northern part of Borno State. During Sunday’s visit, Zulum commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his prompt attention to the fight against the insurgency...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Daily Trust Foundation, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust titles, has organized a 3-day workshop on advanced data journalism for journalists in North East, Nigeria. The workshop which was held in Maiduguri on Tuesday, drew...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As Nigeria marks 10 years since the mass abduction of Chibok schoolgirls in the Northeast, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for action to secure children’s education in Nigeria. It also said that 90 girls remain in captivity, and the country...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Theatre Commander Joint Task Force (JTF) North East Headquarters, Operation Hadin Kai’(OPHK) Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri, Major General Shaibu Waheed, has reiterated the commitment and determination of the Nigerian military to decimate all the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents and rid them from...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has handed over essential medical supplies worth over USD$246,590 to the Borno State Government to improve the quality of care available in health facilities across the state. The UN agency also pledged to hand over a newly built...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Theatre Command, North East, Operation Hadin Kai, (OPHK) has organized a one day training workshop for journalists and military personnel on media engagement and national interest. Declaring the workshop open on Thursday at the NUJ Press Center Maiduguri, The Theatre Commander, Joint...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In its efforts to effectively end the Boko Haram insurgency, the Defense headquarters has organized a workshop for the troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) on Kinetic and non Kinetic approach to counter terrorism in the Northeast region. Speaking at the 3-day...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, says no fewer than 8.3 million Nigerians are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Edu said the figure is part of the total 16 million Nigerians affected by various humanitarian crises, with the...
The UN’s top humanitarian official in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has said that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.s Schmale told journalists in Geneva on Wednesday that the number of children under five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition had doubled...
The United Nations (UN) has allocated $20 million to ramp up humanitarian response to problem of food security and nutrition crisis in North A statement on Tuesday by Ann Weru, the Head of Public Information United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Nigeria, said the fund...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Goal Prime Organization Nigeria in collaboration with the Nigerian Humanitarian Fund (NHF) have launched the second season of Lafiyarmu Jarinmu scheduled from May 2023 to November 2023. The programme which is being aired on Al-Ansar FM Radio 96.1 on a hour-long live sessions broadcast...
The Chief of Army Staff, (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, on Monday hosted troops of North East Operation HADIN KAI to a luncheon to mark the Easter. The feast was held at Maimalari Military Cantonment in Maiduguri. Yahaya represented by Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, the Theatre Commander, said the luncheon was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In commemoration of the 2023 World Poetry Day, UNICEF Borno State has organised a poetry competition for children affected by the conflict in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria. The Communication Officer, UNICEF, Borno State Office, Mrs. Folashade Adebayo, disclosed this in a statement made available to...
The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday that a total of 1,332 terrorists and their family members surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai across North East in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known during the bi-weekly news briefing on the...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has promised to continue with crude oil exploration in the North East. Abubakar said this when he addressed a mammoth crowd of party supporters at a rally in Bauchi on Tuesday. He said that crude exploration in North...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema has given details of how President Muhammadu Buhari deployed diplomatic engagements to end activities of the Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East. The minister spoke on Thursday in Abuja at the 22nd edition of the PMB Administration Scorecard Series (2015-2023) organised to...