A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent reports that most of the camps have been vacated by the displaced persons.
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The bill which scaled second reading on Tuesday during plenary is sponsored by Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South).
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the affected local governments are: Chibok, Konduga, Bama, Askira/Uba, Damboa and Gwoza.
News Agency of Nigeria recalls that 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.
Nigerian Army has recognised five soldiers with awards and special promotion for their gallantry in the fight against insurgency in the north eastern part of the country.
The Nigerian Army says it has captured 10 suspected key Boko Haram members at Bitta in Gwoza LGA of Borno, trying to escape the troops’ sustained onslaught on them.
Some residents of Gwoza and Bama in Borno, have expressed delight over peaceful Eid-el-Kabir celebrations for the first time in five years.
Internally Displaced Persons at the Gwoza and Bama camp Durumi, Abuja, have appealed to the Federal Government to allocate farming lands to them to cater for themselves.
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, made known on Thursday during an interactive session with officers and men of the Borno Police Command in Maiduguri.
Buratai, who spoke at Gwoza, headquarters of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, also said the celebration attested to the resilience of the Nigerian Army in the operations.
A statement by its Director of Public Relations and Information of the NAF, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, made available to newsmen in Abuja disclosed this on Thursday
The whereabouts of the remaining girls is not clear
Olukolade said land and air forces were deployed for the operation
Jonathan, who gave this assurance when he received four International Election Monitoring Groups, said already Nigerian soldiers had successfully liberated Adamawa and Yobe State from the menace of insurgency
The 56-year-old woman, Mbutu Papka, who was kidnapped in July, 2014 and held by the insurgents for eight months in two locations, said confidently that the abducted girls were being kept under very tight security in a house in Gwoza
The senators said the military has done much to push out Boko Haram from the North East
A statement by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, said apart from those captured in the course of fighting, many arrests of terrorists hiding in the town are being made and troops are still busy interrogating the suspects
The Defence Headquarters has said that the “alarmist” report on foreign and online media on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was “clearly intended to cause panic in the city and the nation”.
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.
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.