The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has renewed the commitment of humanitarian community to supporting Borno and others hit by humanitarian crisis. Schmale made this known in Maiduguri on Thursday to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day, graced by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Allow me to recall that...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Maiduguri directed the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and its agencies to come up with specific programmes to address urgent threats posed by explosive remnants in the North East region. The President, who...
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...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the payment of N30,000 minimum wage for qualified primary school teachers in the state. Governor Zulum gave the approval on Wednesday when he received the leaders of the organized labour, who were on a courtesy visit at...
Some repentant Boko-Haram members were on Saturday engaged in sanitation of maiduguri as part of measures preparing them for reintegration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the exercise was organised by Centre for Democracy Development (CDD), in collaboration with the Borno Government. Speaking on the exercise, Prof....
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 – President Muhammadu Buhari has again appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing strike which has drastically affected the universities’ students all over the country apart from disrupting their academic pursuits. President Buhari also urged ASUU leaders to...
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 – Bonro State Governor, Babagana Zulum has lamented over the non implementation of the national minimum wage for Local Education Authority (LEA) teachings in the state, admitting that some tea hers still receive less than N11,000 as monthly salaries. This is sequel to wide spread...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved the immediate appointment of Dr Lawu Auta Mshelia as Acting Executive Director, Borno State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) . The governor also appointed Engr Abba Kyari, as General Manager of Borno State Rural Electrification Board...
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 – 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 – Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are being relocated from their 8 years displacement camps from Maiduguri city, the Borno State capital and resettled to their ancestral homes despite some attacks from the Boko Haram Insurgents. A cross section of the returnee IDPs ,...
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, has expressed fear over the state of the returnee Internal Displaced persons (IDPs) being exposed to the possibility of Boko Haram terrorists attack. The governor’s concern is coming barely few day after the state government shut down the Dalori-1,...
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,...