The Transmission Company of Nigeria has apologized to the people of Maiduguri, Damboa, Biu and the environs in Borno State, North Eastern Nigeria for the power outage being experienced there since mid-July, 2014.
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No fewer than 20 police officers are still missing following the recent attack on the Police Mobile Training School in Gwoza, Borno State, by the Boko Haram sect.
Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has called for an urgent meeting of critical stakeholders in Adamawa State to ensure a free and fair governorship election in the state on October 11.
Fear has gripped mobile policemen living at Mopol 24 barracks, Mpampe, FCT, Abuja after they allegedly received a letter from suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, that the barrack would be the next to be attacked.
Borno state will soon be reconnected to the national power grid as the Military and the Federal Ministry of Power have reached agreement on security protection for engineers who will repair the vandalised power lines, Technical Assistant to Minister of State, Power, Engr. Umar Baba Mustapha has disclosed.
Bodies remain littered on the streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by militant Islamists, a lawmaker has told the BBC.
A former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, has reacted to allegation that he is one of the sponsors of the dreaded insurgents, Boko Haram.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) like many well-meaning Nigerians had resolved long ago that the issue of the Boko Haram insurgency should not be politicized
Islamist Boko Haram insurgents have overrun much of a north eastern Nigerian town after hours of fighting that has killed scores and displaced thousands of residents, several security sources said on Tuesday.
Governor Kashim Shettima made the pledge in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, while addressing members of the Presidential Fact Finding Committee on the abducted students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok
Jonathan on Tuesday sent a request to the National Assembly seeking approval for an extension of the state of emergency
The Speaker, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, announced during plenary on Wednesday in Abuja after contributions by some members on the issue that the matter would be put to vote
The Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, made this known in a statement on Sunday
This was contained in a statement signed by Brigadier General Lajide Laleye, the Director, Army Public Relations
A statement by NEMA’s Information ffiOcer, North East Zone, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, in Yola, Adamawa State, said over 2,000 were also internally displaced after the raid
A statement issued on Wednesday by the US State Department spokesperson, Jen Psaki, pledged support for Nigerian authorities in ongoing investigations into the attacks
Jubrin Gunda, the Legal Adviser to the group, made the call while addressing newsmen on Thursday in Maiduguri
However, INEC expressed the hope that the security situation would improve to enable it to conduct the 2015 general election
Akande-Adeola said the House on May 21 considered and adopted the report on the state of emergency (certain states of the federation) proclamation, 2013 by majority votes of 253
It will be recalled that the Federal Government had on May 12, 2013 declared a state of emergency in the affected states due to the activities of insurgents in the areas