Tag: Borno state

 residents lamented the collapse of telecommunications services in Maiduguri. There has been a partial telecommunications shut down in Maiduguri, the ...

Jonathan had on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in three states, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. The mandatory two ...

Plateau was not one of the states placed under a State of Emergency. The Plateau State Government has cautioned it ...

The Governor advised residents to obey the new emergency rules. The Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has said President Goodluck ...

There seems to be no let-up in the massacre that has taken over a sizeable part of the northern part ...

The state government compensated the families of the victims. Normalcy has returned to Lafia after the tension that greeted the ...

President hailed for not disbanding democratic structures. Nigerians reacted differently to the declaration of the State of Emergency in Borno, ...

Mr. Maku said unemployment is not the only cause of violence in those states. The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, ...

Governors want Federal Government to assist affected states in checking violence. The 36 state governors, under the aegis of Nigeria ...

The commission is leading investigation into some of the recent killings. The head of Nigeria’s human rights body, Chidi Odinkalu, ...

The teachers are to learn about use of K-Yang. The Borno State Government on Saturday sent 40 teachers to India ...

 NEMA says at least 300 persons internally displaced. It was another day of emotion in the troubled town of Bama ...

The JTF confirmed the casualty figure. At least 55 people were killed as members of the extremist Boko Haram sect attacked a ...

Three traders from the market were shot dead in the North were they went for business. There was palpable tension ...

The attacks occurred on Tuesday afternoon. Boko Haram terrorists, on Tuesday, struck police and army installations in Bama and Bankai ...

The Task Force said it also killed some of the suspects in different shootouts. The Joint Task Force (JTF) on ...

 The elder statesman was kidnapped on Friday. No ransom was paid for Monday's release of Nigeria’s first Petroleum Minister, Shettima Ali ...

The party also accused the president of not showing enough concern for servicemen engaged in battling the insurgents. The opposition ...

Last week, I examined the state of the Nigerian State and showed that there are numerous indications pointing to the ...

Soldiers operating in Baga say they have been on ground for too long. Amidst controversy of allegations of extra-judicial killings ...

Baga residents narrate their pains and sufferings and blame Nigerian soldiers for their ills. Yagana Ali, 29, was four months ...

The Nonagenarian was kidnapped on Friday. Over 24 hours after his kidnap, foremost Northern Nigerian leader and former petroleum minister, ...

The content of the interim reports were disclosed by Reuben Abati. Nigeria’s aid agency and the Nigerian military on Tuesday ...

The group said it is positive that there was no justification whatsoever in the senseless killing and burning of houses ...

About five police officers were killed in an attack in Bama Town of Borno State. Barely a week after a ...