Abdulrazaque Barkindo, Head, Media and Public Affairs of the NGF, made this known in Abuja
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The Country Director of UNDP, Samuel Bwalya, gave the warning on Saturday during the graduation of 453 CJTF/Vigilantes drafted from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States
Ibrahim Abdulkadir, Zonal Information Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency in Borno State, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria.
The vision for the state of Borno, ground zero for the war with the Islamist insurgency, is a stark admission of the reality in the northeast
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the killing is the latest in a string of attacks in the violence wracked North-East, where more than 20,000 people have been killed in nine years of insurgency
Usman said that the troops, in joint operations with the Air Force and Civilian Joint Task Force, on Tuesday attacked insurgents’ hideouts at Mogole, Ngaiwa, Tongule, and Warsele villages of Ngala Local Government Area of the state.
Some members of staff of the NNPC, five lecturers of the university, soldiers and civilian members of the JTF were attacked by Boko Haram insurgents on July 25
This was contained in a statement issued by the spokesman to the Acting President, Laolu Akande, on Sunday in Abuja.
The crew, made up of staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, University of Maiduguri, military men and Civilian Joint Task Force, was attacked on Tuesday, with the death toll now said to be over 70 and several still missing
Four persons were declared missing by the university after a Boko Haram attack on the convoy in which they were traveling on Tuesday
Dr. Danny Manmam, the Chairman of the association, University of Maiduguri chapter, told newsmen in Maiduguri that four lectures were still missing.
The angry youths were reported to have attacked officials of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, who were on rescue mission at the scene of suicide bomb attack
NAN recalled that Boko Haram insurgents in recent times intensified suicide bomb attacks targeting civilian population in the metropolis and University of Maiduguri community.
The commissioner, who had since visited the scenes of the attacks, said that four female suicide bombers attacked Moloi, Judumeri and Polo-Sabongari areas of Maiduguri
Ibrahim made the commitment in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Maiduguri.
The group said it arrived at such conclusion after carrying out an independent investigation of the allegation
The Legal Adviser to the CJTF, Jubril Gunda, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Sunday.
Gunda said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Friday that in spite of the high casualty figure, the JTF remain undaunted in its resolve to protect communities in the state from the terrorists.
PRNigeria gathered that the bombers were an adult and two teenagers
The Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, said the UN OCHA “is alarmed by the reported terrorist attacks on vulnerable displaced people in two locations in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria that took place on Thursday