Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested eight suspects over their alleged involvement in a recent suicide bombing at a mosque in Borno State. The attack occurred on December 24, 2025, when a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device inside a mosque at Gamborun Market in Maiduguri, the state capital. At least five […]
By Andrew Orolua The headquarters of Operation HADIN KAI in Maiduguri Borno State said on Friday that recent troops offensive operations have led to the discovery of about 60 heavily primed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs. It added that offensive operations on Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 also resulted in the elimination of several terrorists, and the […]
Tensions are rising in northeastern Nigeria following the abduction of a Catholic priest by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. The clergyman, identified as Fr. Matthew O’Connor—a former missionary in Alaska—was reportedly kidnapped during a pastoral visit to a rural parish near the volatile Sambisa Forest axis. The Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri confirmed the incident […]
By Tom Okpe The Senator representing Borno South Senatorial District, Senator Ali Ndume, has clarified that Buratai town in Borno State was attacked by the Boko Haram Sect in an ambush and not the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Rtd. Ndume made the clarification on Monday, few hours after Buratai had […]
By Andrew Orolua Troops of 212 Battalion Nigerian Army stationed in Molai Village in Kunduga Local Government Borno State has intercepted six big bombs from Boko Haram terrorists . The Terrorists were moving from Timbuktu to Sambisa Forest in preparation for attacks in areas they have been fighting to occupy without success. Acting Commander, Forward […]
By Kingsley Chukwuka An Improvised Explosive Device (IED), hidden in block holes near a culvert on the access road to an ongoing construction site at the New Mafa Central Mosque in Borno State, has injured four children and left another with an amputated hand. The incident occurred on Friday, a security source told our correspondent. […]
…After Tinubu’s morale-boosting trip The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Olufemi Oluyede on Monday led a team of senior army officers to Maiduguri, headquarters of the 7th Infantry Division of the Nigerian Army, to assess the state of military formations and to inspire troops. The Army chief’s visit, which came barely two days after […]
BY IDIBA GABRIEL At least eight people have been confirmed killed and 21 injured in a Borno bomb explosion that occured in Maiduguri. Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has already sympathised with 21 people injured by a bomb blast suspected to have been planted by Boko Haram insurgents along Maiduguri-Damboa highway on Saturday. Of […]
By Samuel Luka Four months after the September 10th devastating flood in Borno state, Chief Medical Director of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), Professor Ahmed Ahidjo has appealed for intervention from philanthropists as well as Donor organizations to help restore its Cancer Centre. Prof Ahidjo who made the appeal in an interview with newsmen […]
BY TOM OKPE Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rep Benjamin Okezie Kalu has said the humanitarian impact of flood disasters in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States in the North East region of Nigeria would need about $200 million to tackle. The Deputy Speaker also said flooding is one of the negative impacts of climate change […]
By Haruna Salami Senators have donated N74m to support the victims of the devastating flood that ravaged Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, last week. The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, disclosed this on behalf of the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, when he led some senators to Maiduguri on […]
The Borno State Government has plans to renovate the Maiduguri International Hotel, a move aimed at bringing the hotel up to international standards and attracting more investments to the state. The Honourable Commissioner Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Investment, Hon. Tarpaya Asarya alongside the Commissioner, Ministry of Inter-Governmental Affairs And Special Duties Hon Tukur Ibrahim […]
The National Population Commission has excluded six of the 27 Local Government Areas of Borno State from taking part in the ongoing 2023/2024 Demographic Health and Survey exercise due to insecurity. The Chairman of the commission, Nasir Kwarra, disclosed this at a press conference in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Monday. He mentioned that the […]
By Tunde Opalana The Borno State National Assembly election tribunal sitting in Maiduguri had dismissed the petition filed by Mr Haske Kudla who was the Borno South Senatorial District candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election. He had challenged the victory of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, the candidate of the […]
By Tom Okpe The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, (LP) Peter Obi continued his national campaigns, to win the 2023 presidential election at the weekend to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital armed with solution to youth engagement, insecurity, and poverty that has ravaged the state and the country for decades. According to Diran Onifade, […]
The Theatre Command of Joint Task Force ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ in the North-East is yet to confirm the report on the killing of scores of farmers in Rann, the headquarters of Kala-Balge Local Government Council in Borno State. Theatre Commander Major-General Christopher Musa said investigations are ongoing to confirm the nature of what transpired. According […]
Officers of the Nigerian Army are currently battling insurgents at Malam Fatori, the border town headquarters of Abadam Local Goverment Area (LGA) in Borno state in the northeast region. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that the terrorists are engaging the army formation in Malam-Fatori Friday evening. A 12-year-old conflict in northeast Nigeria has caused, directly and indirectly, […]
Borno State Governor, Umara Zulum, on Saturday in Maiduguri, received Ruth Ngladar Pogu, one of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted seven years ago at a Government Secondary School in Chibok. Boko Haram had attacked the school towards midnight of April 14, 2014, and abducted the students. Ruth, alongside someone she was said to have married […]
At a market in Borno State, Nigerian Army troops assigned to Operation Hadin Kai apprehended a food supply for the Islamic State West African Province as well as Boko Haram soldiers and their commanders. Wida Kachalla, the suspect, was apprehended in Benisheikh Market by troops from the 154 Taskforce Battalion working with local vigilantes, according […]
By Tom Okpe The Borno State Government has rejected the call for more states and local government creation, also, saying no to community policing as agitated by some quarters on the ongoing House of Representatives Committee on review of the 1999 constitution. The State Government at its Bauchi Zonal hearing led by Aminu Suleiman from […]