BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Controversies have rocked The Borno State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) as the union’s four (4) 100x 50 square meter plots of land allocated by the state government to develop its secretariat and press center were sold without due process, proper...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum was in Chibok town on Monday following a recent attack on three communities: Kawtakare, Korohuma and Pemi in the LGA in the state. The Governor met families of 22 women and two men abducted by Boko Haram/ISWAP during the attack. Zulum...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Police Commissioner, Abdu Umar has confirmed the arrest of four political thugs who attacked and brutalized a female resident of Maiduguri, Ms. Fadila Abdulrahman at her restaurant situated at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Park on Sunday evening. Parading the suspects before the newsmen...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A female resident of Maiduguri, Fadila Abdulrahman, was on Sunday evening ‘brutalized’ by suspected hoodlums in Maiduguri which drew the attention of Govenro Babagana Zulum, who ordered for the arrest of the perpetrators and full investigation into the matter by the police The thugs...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The former Managing Director of FSB International PLC, Alhaji Mohammed Hayatudeen has revalidated his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) membership on Sunday in his ward in Jere LGC of Borno State. Hayatudeen picked his renewed PDP membership card No. 133 at Gudda Khaddamari Ward of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Commissioner of Education, Engr Lawan Abba Wakilbe has assured that justice would be served to the 15 year-old student, Jubril Said Mato, whose throat was slit by a fellow student in El Kanemi College of Theology Maiduguri. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command has paraded one Ahmed Umar Goni, a 16yrs old SS 2 student of Elkenemi Islamic College of Theology, Maiduguri for cutting the throat of Pre JSS student, Jibrin Mato with razor blade and 46 others for various offences. Addressing...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Chapter of APC Aspirants Forum (AAF) has called on the incumbent National Secretary of the national body of APC Aspirants Forum, Hon. Yusuf Sheriff Modu to aspire, contest and run for the Office of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Network of Civil Society Organisations, Borno State Chapter (NECSOB) has condemned in strong term the murder of 14 year old female IDP Aisha Umar, who was allegedly raped and stabbed to death by an NGO official, Huzaifa Adam in Maiduguri. The deceased, who...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said troops killed 49 terrorists and bandits across theaters of operations while 863 terrorists surrendered in the last two weeks. The Director Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, made this known while giving an update on operations of the armed forces on Thursday in Abuja....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Bultmann has said her country plans to partner Borno State Government on the development of agriculture, education, and the resettlement of IDPs. Amb. Bultmann announced this on Wednesday when she paid a courtesy visit to Governor Babagana Zulum...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has called for a collective fund raising that would be channelled towards recharging the Lake Chad and the Hawul Basins which have been the major sources of livelihood for about 30 million people before it receded by 90%. Governor...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Deputy Governor, Hon. Umar Kadafur has commended the recent successes recorded by the Nigerian military in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency in the state. He also expressed hope that if the tempo is sustained, the crisis will soon come to an...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State’s first flyover commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari will be reopened for traffic on Tuesday as steel made expansion joints were fixed by a reputable Chinese Construction Company which successfully built a number of flyovers in Abuja and Lagos. Although the existing expansion...
The Borno State Government has awarded N2.8bn contract for construction of 8.2 kilometers Maiduguri township roads. Mr Ali Goni-Lawan, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, stated this at the signing ceremony of the contract on Saturday in Maiduguri. Ali Goni-Lawan said the projects located within Maiduguri metropolis would be handled...
The Borno State Police command has denied reports that some policemen were abducted by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) at the Mobile Police Training School in limankara, Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA) of the state . Mr Audu Umar, the state Commissioner of Police disclosed this...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A PDP chieftain, Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue South Senatorial district has described the Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum, as an inspiration whose exemplary leadership has made Nigerians to wish for more leaders like him. Senator Moro spoke on Wednesday in Maiduguri...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has set up a committee to investigate the remote cause of fire incident that raised some parts of Goni Kachallari Government Day Technical College in Maiduguri. Consequently the commissioner for education has been directed to submit requirements for immediate rehabilitation of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A United Nations delegation has paid a courtesy visit on the Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum led by the new UN Country Representative and the acting Resident Humanitarian Co-Ordinator, Mr Mattias Schmale with other principal officers from the UN. Mr. Schmale, who was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has expressed strong concern over the increasing presence of terrorists from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in some parts of the state, and called for urgent security measures to curtail their growth. Governor Zulum disclosed this on...