By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday flagged off the maiden flight of the 2022 Hajj exercise, were a total of 43,000 intending Nigerian pilgrims would be airlifted to the Holy Land (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia to perform this year’s Hajj. Recalled the Hajj operation was...
Borno state
Boko Haram insurgents on Monday attacked Lawan Mainari village near Mainok along Damaturu-Maiduguri Road in Borno State. According to an eyewitness, the incident happened in a community less than 40 kilometers away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The terrorists were said to have abducted several passengers while setting...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As part of the efforts in reaffirming the Nigerian Army’s commitment to enhancing the welfare of both serving and discharged personnel, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has on Saturday, 28 May, 2022 feted retirees to a valedictory buffet at...
….Commends Zulum for taking the lead By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A World Bank Technical Support Team led by the Task Team Leader on Multi Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) , Ms Serena Cavicchi, has visited Borno State on performance evaluation and monitoring of some selected projects and help...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Sunday, travelled to Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge Local Government Area, to commiserate with mourning communities and families of 32 metal scavengers killed by Boko Haram/ISWAP last week. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that 32 persons from Kala-Balge were ambushed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has on Saturday, thanked delegates and party stakeholders following the victory of Senator Kashim Shettima at the primaries for Borno Central Senatorial election. Shettima won unopposed with 479 votes cast by delegates at an election that...
Below is the full text of Governor Babagana Zulum’s remark when he accepted nomination as candidate of the APC in Borno for the 2023 governorship: “Only at the weekend, more than 30 youths were killed around Kala-Balge. This should remind us of the reality of our problems and the...
Says rebuilding Borno more urgent By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has been declared winner of the APC governorship primaries ahead of the forthcoming general elections in 2023. Uba Maigari Ahmadu, Chairman of the APC Governorship and House of Assembly primaries for Borno State,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is in mourning over the senseless killings in Borno and Katsina states in the last 48 hours. In a statement issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in Abuja, the president vowed that the perpetrators would be...
Alhaji Mohammed Jajari has emerged governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 general election in Borno State. Jajari polled 487 votes to defeat Mohammed Imam who polled 362 in the primary election held on Wednesday in Borno state. Announcing the results, Abdulrahman Bobboi, the Chairman...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – No fewer than thirty two (32) persons are believed to have been killed by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists around Mudu village, some 45 kilometers away from Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge LGA of Borno State, last weekend. Governor Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, confirmed the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Monday stormed Maiduguri city with his campaign team from Damaturu, Yobe State capital for a consultative meeting with the national delegates of All Progressive Congress (APC) from Borno state. On his arrival, the vice president went straight to...
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 SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The APC National Leader and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Borno that if he is elected as the next President of Nigeria come 2023, he will exploit all the state’s natural endowment especially oil exploration and resuscitation of the Lake...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A leading presidential aspirant of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to end Boko Haram insurgency in the North East as well as other insecurity challenges affecting other parts of the country, if elected as the president of Nigeria in the forthcoming general...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Thugs and supporters of Senator Ali Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly clashed in Biu town of Biu LGA of the State during an arranged Borno South APC delegates meeting with an APC Presidential Aspirant, Chief Rotimi Amaechi...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Wednesday took part at the fifth in series of ongoing distribution of palliatives, during which 6,000 vulnerable men and women of Gwange I, II, and III wards benefited. The distribution took place around 7:30am at a primary school...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – About 24, 000 farmers who lost their livelihoods to the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria, have received support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to resume planting crops in safe locations in the state. ICRC said it had...
Details have emerged regarding the post made by a Facebook user, Naomi Goni, that angered Muslim faithful in Borno State. Naomi is currently in trouble after her Facebook post on the murder of Deborah Samuel, a Christian student who was killed for blasphemy in Sokoto. A lady with Facebook...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum alongside the immediate past givernor, Senator Kashim Shettima Modu have been screened successfully by the APC Screening Committee as aspirants in the forthcoming party primaries for governorship and senatorial positions. Zulum, who is contesting election for the second term...