By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved a two-year tax waiver for traders who were affected by the September 2024 flood disaster and Maiduguri Monday market traders. Zulum granted the waiver to ease financial burden and encourage business growth. The devastating flood caused...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In the wake of the devastating floods that hit Borno State in September 2024, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has offered a $1 million contribution from its Special Relief Fund to support emergency food response for flood-affected communities in Borno State, North East, Nigeria....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has applauded President Bola Tinubu for approving N80 billion for the reconstruction and upgrade of Alau Dam. Alau Dam collapsed on the 10th of September, 2024, triggering a devastating flooding of Maiduguri metropolis and parts of Jere Local...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has received the final report from the Borno State Flood Relief Disbursement Committee, which managed a whopping ₦28.2 billion in relief funds. Interestingly, the committee had already disbursed about ₦18.08 billion to over 101,330 affected families. The funds were...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has urged the federal government to speed up the reconstruction of the collapsed dyke at Alau Dam, which resulted in Maiduguri Metropolis and its surrounding LGAs being flooded. The Alau Dam is situated in the Alau community of Konduga, a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Director General, Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Mohammad Saidu Barkindo, has said SEMA spent more than a week at Ngala to conclude distribution of food items to about 14,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and those in host communities, who were affected...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has expressed commitment to strengthening economic ties with the Republic of Chad in a bid to revive trade and socio-economic activities disrupted by the more than a decade-long Boko Haram insurgency. The governor made the announcement while hosting a...
Emergency forces in Spain were able to rescue a woman trapped inside a car alongside the dead body of her sister-in-law for three days following the deadly flash floods in Spain, where the death toll has now climbed slightly to 211. Police in the municipality of Moncada shared a...
The National Economic Council (NEC) has directed the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation to conduct a comprehensive integrity review of Nigeria’s waterways and dams. Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State said this on Thursday while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa in Abuja after the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Executive Secretary of Borno Geographic Information Services (BOGIS), Engineer Adam Bababe has inaugurates a 13-man committee saddled with the responsibility of demarcating boundaries and controlling developments along river banks and buffer zones or water ways in Maiduguri city and its environs While inaugurating...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – The Climate and Sustainable Development Network (CSDevNet) in collaboration with the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), have called on global leaders to deliver on climate pledges and advancing climate justice The National Network Coordinator of CSDevNet, Mr Stephen Abu, made the call during...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Federation of Muslim Women Association in Nigeria (FOMWAN) in collaboration with the Borno State Flood Disaster Food Relief Material Committee have donated relief materials worth N10.2 million to 500 pregnant and nursing women, who are victims of the recent flood disaster in Maiduguri...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved a four-week extension for the “Borno State Flood Disaster Relief Disbursement Committee,” which is responsible for managing relief funds. Maiduguri, the Borno State’s capital and its surrounding local government areas, have experienced devastating flood that resulted in...
The Lagos State Government has raised an alarm of renewed threats of flash flood in the state following the intensity of rainfall experienced in the state on Thursday. The government described Thursday’s downpour as the heaviest in many months. The state’s Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – First Lady Oluremi Tinubu visited Maiduguri, Borno State, to show solidarity and provide financial support to 5,000 women affected by the recent flood disaster. The flood, which occurred on September 9th and 10th, 2024, displaced millions, left 80% of Maiduguri homeless, and caused widespread...
The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), has advised Nigerians living around river banks along the River Benue Basin to quickly move to safer grounds. In a statement on Thursday, NIHSA Director General, Umar Mohammed, warned that water on the River Benue has reached the flooding...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno Police Command has recaptured a 24 year old Auwalu Aminu, also known as “Auwalu Kirkir.” Aminu is an escaped convict who had been serving a jail term for criminal conspiracy and theft. A statement by the police spokesman, ASP Nahum Daso, said...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has pledged to support the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) in repairing some of the equipment damaged during the recent flood that ravaged Maiduguri and its environs. The Managing Director of NEDC, Ambassador Goni Mohammed Alkali, made...
The Federal Government is to overhaul the Alau dam in Maiduguri with special focus on raising its reservoir level and fixing damages resulting from the Sept. 9 disaster, an official has disclosed. Director, Dams and Reservoir Operations, in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, Mr Ali Dala,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a relief program in Maiduguri, targeting 1,000 children suffering from malnutrition in the area. The program, which started on Monday, aims to complement existing nutrition programs in Borno State by addressing critical food security needs in...