North East

The process of selecting the 228 students has been criticized by some residents of the state.

The governor also said he would be returning home “to fight those plotting his defeat from within his government”.

The 11-member committee is headed by the acting Head of Service.

Boko Haram and it’s ISWAP splinter faction have, in the past weeks, stepped up daily attacks on highways and communities in the state.

The source, who witnessed the incident, said the attackers were all armed and some were dressed in military uniforms.

Some of the appointees are Nigerians from other states but residing in Borno.

An official of Damaturu Fire Station says the three victims died because there was no back door in the house to serve as an emergency exit.

Sources from Monguno said soldiers battled for several hours to repel the attack.

The protesters accuse the police of releasing kidnapping suspects; the police deny this.

The army, according to the governor, did not notify the state government or the federal government of the evacuation.

The names of the ghost workers are to be removed from the payroll in line with the recommendation of a committee.

“You are all here collecting N500 and N1000 from poor travellers who don’t have national ID card,” the Borno governor said.

Maiduguri’s population has in the last six years doubled due to the influx of people displaced from their rural settlements by the Boko Haram conflict.

The leadership of the NMA and Association of Resident Doctors visited the victim’s family.

According to an official of the Civilian JTF, the insurgents stormed the village last night at about 7.30 p.m.

The air force says its surveillance aircraft spotted a BHT gun truck under a tree along with scores of BHT fighters converged around the tree on the outskirts of the settlement.

The attack was repelled by the military.

This latest attack is coming barely three days after a visit by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai to troops in the front line of the battle.

The attack which commenced at about 6 p.m. lasted for many hours.

The fire which started at about 9 a.m razed downthe entire building

The college is one of the critical security institutions overran by the Boko Haram terrorists during the peak of their activities in Borno state in August 2014

The statement said the approval is with “immediate effect.”