By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has distributed fourteen million, five hundred and eighty thousand naira (N14,580,000) alongside one thousand three hundred and sixty-six bags of grains to 683 volunteers helping the military to fight Boko Haram in Bama town. Zulum has been in Bama...
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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 – The Force Commander, Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) Major General Abdul-Kalifa Ibrahim has presented medals to the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Major General Wahidi Shuabu and 850 troops of 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, who participated in Operation Kaje Sanity...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State First Lady, Dr. Falmata Zulum has lamented over the low rate of breastfeeding among women in the state, adding that the Boko Haram insurgency has been a major threat to the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in communities across the state. Dr. Zulum...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, was at the headquarters of Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in N’Djamena, Chad, to honour over 6,000 gallant soldiers. The soldiers were honoured at a medals parade held by the MNJTF to celebrate over 6,000 troops for their gallantry...
Today in north-east Nigeria, millions of people are facing the painful consequences of a deteriorating food security and nutrition crisis. Food insecurity means not knowing when or where your next meal will come from. It means, in essence, not being able to meet the basic needs for yourself or...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Stakeholders in Borno State have called for an improved welfare for the victims of Boko Haram insurgency in North East region. They also called for proper and effective management of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) including the provision of basic facilities at the IDPs...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday affirmed that there is direct link between food transformation and the social problems of hunger, poverty, healthcare, insecurity and unemployment. Governor Zulum stated this during the North-East Sensitization Workshop on National Food System Transformation Pathways, which was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East Development Commission (NEDC) on Saturday donated 38,000 bags of maize, rice, spaghetti and non food items to the Borno State Government for onward distribution to about 66 repentant Boko Haram insurgents and their families as well as other victims of insurgency...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Great Britain where he again reiterated his resolve to respect the maximum term limit in the Nigerian Constitution. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, who confirmed this in a statement in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Nigeria military troops have rescued two abducted Chibok school girls from the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents in Bama and Gwoza axis of Borno State. The Theater Commander, JTF Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Chris G. Musa disclosed this on Tuesday while parading the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command has paraded no fewer than 154 suspects that were arrested for various crimes in the state. Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abdul Umar while briefing journalist on Wednesday at the Command Headquarters Maiduguri said the joint operational...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Banagana Zulum on Sunday visited Logumani, a community in Ngala LGA of the state, where he approved the construction of 500 resettlement houses to accommodate returnees. Logumani residents were displaced as a result of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The people of the northeast, particularly those in Borno State, have spent more than half of Nigeria’s 23 years of uninterrupted democracy, showing “incredible resilience” against vicious attempts by Boko Haram insurgents to undermine democratic institutions, Governor Babagana Zulum said on Sunday. Governor Zulum...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Umar Farouk Yahaya has charged officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army to always discharge their duties and responsibilities with all seriousness, commitment, determination and professionalism in protecting the integrity of the country and ensuring peace...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided 102,859 children access to inclusive, equitable and quality education in a safe and protective learning environment mostly girls in Borno State. Unicef has also supported a total of 29,985 out-of-school youths and adolescents , mostly females...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Friday said President Mohamadu Buhari would commission for the first time the controversial 2nd Niger Bridge in Anambra State, South East Nigeria. Senator Lawan, a leading presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), disclosed this...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the release of five vehicles and business grant to fish marketers in Monguno. Zulum’s offer, was issued during an interactive meeting with fish dealers in Monguno town during his visit that ended Saturday, which is aimed to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has supervised the disbursement of N275,000,000 alongside the distribution of bags of grains, and textiles to 90,000 internally displaced households in Monguno. This kind of intervention, which Zulum has sustained in the last three years, is part of multi-faced...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Umar Farouq Yahaya, has commended the 305 officers and soldiers of 402 Special Forces Brigade for the successes recorded in clearance operations at the Sambisa, Tumbuktu Triangle, Tumbus and Mandara mountains among others. COAS gave the...