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In that effort therefore, all the tiers of government and critical partners ought to be focused, open-minded and collaborative in meeting shared aspirations, providing better and fuller lives, and decent jobs for Nigerians, especially the youths.

The contract was awarded in March 2011 to Messrs ESER Contracting Industry Company during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Speaking at the palace of the Shehu of Borno, in Maiduguri, Borno, on Thursday, Buhari noted that he started his administrative career as a military officer in Borno as a governor for seven months, under Gen. Murtala Mohammed.

The agency said it had received a series of complaints that some restaurants in Maiduguri, Borno State, are using paracetamol to cook cow tail and legs.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that officials of the Ministry of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement and State Emergency Management Agency are handling the resettlement exercise.

A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Mohammed Abatcha, on Thursday in Maiduguri said the decision was to avoid escalation of violence.

A cross-section of residents, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday said that they were excited with the news and prayed it was true.

Abdullahi Ibrahim, the state NSCDC Commandant, said this when he addressed newsmen on Tuesday in Maiduguri.

Okon said all motor vehicles, tricycles, bicycles, wheel barrows and animal transportation would only be allowed as from 12 noon on that day.

The Arik Air’s Chief Executive Officer, Capt. Roy Ilegbodu, said in a statement in Lagos on Monday that passengers traveling from Lagos could connect seamlessly to the service from Abuja.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of TETFund, Alhaji Kashim Imam, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Maiduguri, Borno State.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two months blackout was caused by the destruction of some of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the national grid by insurgents along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Road.

The state Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Alhaji Sainna Buba, made this known on Thursday in Maiduguri while briefing newsmen.

The 49,000 square meters concrete embedded bus terminal, sited along Bama Road in Maiduguri, will comprise 373 lock up shops and 220 market stalls, making 593 shops and stalls.

It is not clear the casualty at the moment but reports indicated that the insurgents tried to launch an attack on University of Maiduguri from the northeast behind the military trench which is behind the university.

Hajiya Yabawa Kolo, the Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), made this known to newsmen in Maiduguri on Wednesday.

The State Commandant of the Corps, Abdullahi Ibrahim, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Thursday.

Yet out of their desire to cast others in their mould and view people from their constricted, parochial perspectives, they framed Asiwaju Tinubu’s visit as politically motivated. They claim the APC leader was in that city in furtherance of his 2023 political ambition, even when he is yet to declare interest in the upcoming presidential race.

The ICRC Head of Delegation in Nigeria, Eloi Fillion, disclosed this in his tweets shared by the ICRC Public Relations Officer, Aliyu Dawobe.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known to State House correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Wednesday.