The Borno State Emergency Management Agency on Sunday said five persons were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
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The Nigerian Military Court Martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State on Tuesday dismissed Flight Lieutenant Martins Owerem of the Nigerian Air Force for raping a 14-year-old displaced girl.
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission on Tuesday said it has begun verification of the 2018/2019 Federal Government’s projects in the North East.
Voting in the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections has already commenced in Maiduguri, Borno State and some parts of Southern Kaduna State.
Some residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Thursday dismissed as misleading the alleged electoral irregularities in the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state as made by the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Collation of results is in progress in Maiduguri, Borno State in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Army explained that the multiple sound of controlled-gun fire on Saturday morning heard in the outskirts of Maiduguri was for “security calculations”.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim, made this know to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Maiduguri.
No fewer that 15 Ward Chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council of Borno State have defected to the All Progressives Congress.
The Police Command in Borno said it had deployed at least 13, 000 operatives in the state to provide security for Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
The Borno State Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday said it had concluded arrangements to resettle 1,900 displaced households at a newly established Internally Displaced Persons camp in Maiduguri.
Buhari, who spoke in Hausa language at the inauguration of his re-election campaign in Maiduguri, also promised to take the fight against corruption to a logical conclusion.
The President Muhammadu Buhari campaign train on Monday arrived Maiduguri in continuation of its re-election campaign activities.
The Nigerian Army on Sunday said it had uncovered Boko Haram logistics supply syndicates among loggers and charcoal dealers in Borno State.
Malam Baba Modu, an 80-year-old father to a Boko Haram commander, popularly called Ba-Ana, has called on his son to surrender and embrace peace.
The North East Regional Editor of Daily Trust newspapers, Uthman Abubakar, has been released from detention by the military.
Media Rights Agenda has condemned the military invasion, occupation and takeover of the Abuja and Maiduguri offices of Daily Trust newspaper and called on the Federal Government to take punitive action against the perpetrators in order to end the cycle of abuse of power by military officers.
Armed soldiers on Sunday invaded the Daily Trust regional office in Maiduguri, Borno State, arresting the Regional Editor, Uthman Abubakar, and a Reporter, Ibrahim Sawab.
Major General Benson Akinroluyo, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, has tasked police personnel deployed to the North East to be professional and respect human rights in the discharge of their duties.
In what appeared like a drama, residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, recently protested against a 24-hour supply of electricity to their communities. For them, rather than rejoicing, the constant electricity supply has increased the amount they pay for electricity and has led to ridiculous and “outrageous billings”,