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...
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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,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned the parameter fencing of Divisional police station and barracks in Askira LGA. The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner from the Ministry of Reconstruction Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Engr Mustapha Gubio, said the commissioning was inline...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Wednesday toured about 10 farmlands in the outskirts of 4 LGAs of the state which include – Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC), Jere, Mafa and Dikwa LGCs to monitor farming activities. During the separate unscheduled visits, Governor Zulum, who...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF in collaboration with development partners have referred more than 92,000 women and mothers with breastfeeding difficulties have been referred for maternal, infant and young child nutrition counselling. The UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office Officer-in-Charge, Mr. Samuel B. Sesay, stated this on Tuesday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government through the office of the Head of Service, Barrister Simon Malgwi on Tuesday embarked on a 2-Day training for top civil servants comprising of the ministerial secretaries and directors to acquire new skills on how to improve their productivity for effective...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Farmers in Borno state have cried out for government intervention over the non availability of fertilizers in the state for the raining farming season. They also expressed their fears over the state government’s inability to flag off sales and distribution of fertilizers at a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved Monday, 1st of August, 2022 as public holiday to mark the new Islamic Year (1st Muharram 1444) AH. This was contained in a press statement signed by the Head of Service (HoS), Barrister Simon Malgwi which was...
The Theatre Commander, Joint Task Force “Operation Hadin kai”, Maj. Gen. Christopher Musa, says 14,609 out of the 70,593 insurgents who surrendered to troops are combatants. Musa said this on Friday in Maiduguri when he spoke with newsmen on recent successes recorded by the command under “Operation Desert Sanity”...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday flagged off the closure and relocation of about 52,000 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their ancestral homes in Mafa, Dikwa, Konduga, Bama, Gwoza, Marte Areas of the state. The official closure of the remaining four IDPs camps...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has doled out the sum of five million naira to support the innovative skills of a talented almajiri, Laminu Mohammed, who fabricated a manual-push farming plough machine for tilling and ploughing farmlands. Zulum, a professor of irrigation farming,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday in Damboa, coordinated the distribution of about N172 million cash alongside food items to 30,436 residents who are victims of destructions caused by flood. A total of 436 persons were identified as victims who lost shelters and...
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...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Bauchi Field Office, says all is set to establish menstrual banks in some schools in Northern Nigeria. Mrs Mairama Dikwa, the UNICEF Education Specialist, told the New Agency of Nigerian (NAN) in Bauchi on Saturday, that the establishment would begin in November across...