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Over $200 million needed to tackle impact of flooding in Borno, other states; Kalu tells AU

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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

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Senators visit Maiduguri, donate N74m to Borno flood victims

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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 […]

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Borno to rebuild Maiduguri International Hotel

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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

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Insecurity: NPC excludes six Borno LGs from demographic survey

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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 […]

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Tribunal upholds Ndume’s election as Borno South senator

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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 […]

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Youth engagement, security poverty dominate Obi’s campaign in Borno

Ihesiulo Grace 29 January 2023 0

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, […]

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Borno Killings: We’re investigating incident, says Army

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2022 0

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 […]

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BREAKING: Soldiers in battle with Boko Haram terrorists in Borno

Ihesiulo Grace 3 December 2021 0

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,

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Chibok Schoolgirl, reunites her with family in Borno

Ihesiulo Grace 7 August 2021 0

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 […]

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ISWAP, Boko Haram Food Supplier Captured In Borno Market

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2021 0

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 […]

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Constitution Review: Borno rejects states, LGs creation, said no to community policing

Ihesiulo Grace 2 June 2021 0

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 […]

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Borno shuts colleges after students’ clash

Ihesiulo Grace 28 May 2021 0

By Dilibe Michael The Borno State Government has ordered the closure of two tertiary institutions in the state following students’ unrest for two weeks. The affected schools are the Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri, and Umar Ibn Ibrahim El Kanemi College of Science and Technology, Bama. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry […]

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“Some Local Government areas in Borno exist just in name with no people”— Borno speaker calls attention to council fraud

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2021 0

Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkareem Lawan, says several Local Government Areas in the name exist just in name with no people occupying them. Lawan, who opposed calls for the creation of additional states and local governments, spoke at the ongoing public hearing on the 1999 constitutional review held on Wednesday in […]

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Borno Assembly approves Kadafur as Acting Governor

Ihesiulo Grace 2 May 2021 0

By Dilibe Michael Borno State House of Assembly has, on Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s request, approved Deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur, to serve as acting governor, from April 29 to May 19, 2021. The approval was conveyed by the Assembly’s speaker, Abdulkarim Lawan, in a letter dated April 26, 2021. Zulum had on April 23, […]

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Borno lawmakers can’t impeach me: Gov. Zulum

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2021 0

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno says he is not losing sleep over reports that the state’s lawmakers planned to impeach him. The Chief of Staff to the governor, Hussaini Marte, said Mr Zulum did not attach any seriousness to the House of Assembly’s rumoured impeachment. The assembly had, on Friday, conducted an extraordinary session to […]

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NALDA trains 68 youth corps members, others as soil doctors in Borno

Ihesiulo Grace 24 March 2021 0

The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has concluded the training of 269 pioneer soil doctors and extension service workers in Borno, on Tuesday. The Executive Secretary of NALDA, Mr Paul Ikonne, who spoke at the closing ceremony in Maiduguri, said that the pioneer graduates, including 68 youth corps members, had been given requisite knowledge […]

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Troops Kill Two Heavy Boko Haram’s Factional Commanders in Borno

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2021 0

By Dilibe Michael Two prominent commanders from the extremist Boko Haram group, Abul-Bas, and Ibn Habib were neutralized on their way to the Banki, around the Pulka axis. Both Abul-Bas and Ibn Habib were among the prominent Commanders of the Shekau faction of Boko Haram, operating in Sambisa forest and its environs. They have been […]

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Zulum visits tower, to support TCN in fast-tracking repairs of electricity

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2021 0

By Dilibe Michael Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum was on Friday, at a power site where insurgents destroyed a transmission tower which disrupted the power supply to Maiduguri. The site is along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway. Zulum’s visit was to support the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) to restore

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We won’t give up fight against terrorism, Gov. Zulum pledges

Ihesiulo Grace 16 December 2020 0

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has stated that the state would not give up on the war on terrorism, Daily Times gathered. Speaking at the Topflyers Magazine Award ceremony in Abuja, Zulum said he would never give up on the fight against the insurgency, saying while also providing the basic amenities to the […]

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Borno Killings: Boko Haram reveals reason behind massacre

Ihesiulo Grace 2 December 2020 0

Boko Haram has taken responsibility for the recent killings of rice farmers in Kwashebe, Zabarmari, in the Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, Daily Times gathered. The factional leader of the terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau confirmed it, while threatening to deal with those giving information on his group to the military. The information was […]