A four-year-old son of the Borno State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Dalori, has been kidnapped in Maiduguri, the father said. According to information made available to journalists, the boy was taken away from school by an unknown woman who falsely claimed to be a relative. The…

The United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have in separate statements condemned the killing of one of the three aid workers abducted earlier this year by the Boko Haram in Borno State. The murder of the 25 years old midwife, who was identified as…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday condemned as heinous and despicable, the killing of Saifura Khorsa an aid worker, kidnapped about six months ago at the Rann camp for internally displaced persons by Boko Haram terrorists. PREMIUM TIMES earlier published how the Red Cross confirmed the death of the aid worker. The…

Suspected robbers have burgled the home of Leah Sharibu, the schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram in February, her father said. Leah was abducted alongside over a hundred others, but while her peers were later released following the government's intervention, she was denied freedom for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.…

A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe State, Ibrahim Bomoi, on Sunday said he opposes the decision of the state governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, to announce a candidate as the party's flagbearer for 2019 election. Mr Bomoi, a former director of treasury at the Federal Capital Territory…

The Nigerian Army on Sunday reacted to the daring Boko Haram attack on a military base and neighbouring communities in Guzamala Local Government Area. The army said its officers regrouped and have restored total normalcy in Gundubali and other neighbouring communities in Guzamala. PREMIUM TIMES reported the attack on the…

Boko Haram gunmen on Friday night carried out another attack on a military base in Borno State, an official said. The Deputy Governor of Borno State, Usman Durkwa, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Maiduguri on Saturday said the troops and neighbouring communities were attacked in Guzamala Local Government…

The Yobe state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has given the outgoing governor of the state, Mr. Ibrahim Gaidam, the sole powers to anoint his successor ahead of the 2019 election. The party's members, at a meeting Thursday, agreed that the party's candidate for the 2019 governor election…

A former Borno senator and 2019 governorship aspirant, Muhammed Abba-Aji, has said he should be counted out of the Borno state's All Progressives Congress (APC) choice of indirect primaries. Mr. Abba-Aji, who was first to declare his 2019 ambition, said he was absent at the meeting by choice because he…

Members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno and Adamawa states on Tuesday at separate events resolved to adopt indirect primaries to select candidates for next year's elections. The two states are governed by the APC. The decisions were reached at their respective “critical stakeholders’ meetings” hosted by…

All is not well with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State as Governor Kashim Shettima and his erstwhile political godfather-turned arch-enemy, Ali Modu Sheriff, appear ready to fight dirty ahead the party's primaries. The party has of late demonstrated that the peace accord it signed to usher…

The Borno State Commissioner for Health, Haruna Mshelia, on Tuesday announced that a 'deadly diarrhoea' has hit at least ten local government areas of the state At least 1,068 persons have so far contracted Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), a bowel related ailment that is fast becoming an epidemic in the…

The Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, said on Tuesday that he does not have knowledge of the person that will succeed him come 2019. He said he leaves the decision in the hands of God. The governor was however emphatic that his successor will definitely come from amongst politicians…

The Nigeria military on Saturday handed over 23 arrested children who were formerly associated with Boko Haram insurgents, to UNICEF through the Borno State government. The children, according to the military, were picked up during various military raid operations around the north-east region. Aged between 17 and 10 years, the…

A United Nations (UN) official on Friday spoke on a report submitted to the UN Security Council that showed Nigeria paid ransom to free scores of schoolgirls kidnapped in Dapchi, Yobe State, The UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, said the report was by an “independent committee” and he has no “concrete…

Hours after a United Nations report presented to the UN Security Council revealed Nigeria paid ransom to free scores of female students kidnapped in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has insisted no ransom was paid. Over 100 girls were kidnapped from the Dapchi school by a Boko…

Contrary to the claim by the Nigerian government through the Information Minister Lai Mohammed, the government paid a “large ransom” to free scores of female students kidnapped by the Boko Haram from their school in Dapchi, Yobe State, earlier this year, the United Nations has said. Over 100 girls were…

The predominance of the cash economy is a major factor fuelling the nefarious activities of the Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in the Lake Chad Basin region, a UN report has revealed. This was contained in the 22nd Report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, pursuant to…

Last week, members of the Borno State Livestock Traders Association and the National Association of Butchers (NASB) threatened to shut down sales of livestock in the state in protest against the ban on their business by the Nigerian military. About five months ago, after the formation of Operation Last Hold,…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)has rejected the result of the Bauchi South senatorial election held on Saturday. The PDP candidate, Ladan Salihu, was declared runner-up in the election with 50,256 votes. The electoral commission (INEC) had on Sunday declared the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Yahaya Gumau,…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Bauchi South senatorial election held on Saturday. The election was held in the seven local government areas in the senatorial district. The results, announced by the electoral commission, INEC, shows the APC won in six of the seven local governments in the…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken an early lead in the Bauchi South Senatorial Bye-election results so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Bauchi South Senatorial District comprises seven local government areas. The APC has so far won in three of the four local governments…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State in Saturday's senatorial bye-election. Bogoro is the local government of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. Bogoro is one of the seven local governments where the Bauchi South senatorial bye-election was held. In the local…

On Saturday, residents of Bauchi South Senatorial District filed out in their thousands to vote for their preferred candidates in a bye-election organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The election was held to fill the vacancy created by the death of the last occupant, Ali Wakili. Candidates of…

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was disallowed from voting after arriving late at the polling station for Saturday's Bauchi senatorial bye election. Mr Dogara was at his country home, Gwarangah, in Bogoro local government area of Bauchi state days before the bye-election for Bauchi-South senatorial district.…