A mammoth crowd besieged the popular Maiduguri Eye Hospital, located along Damboa Road within the Metropolis, jostling to acquire the mega free Eye treatment and surgery cases related to cataracts, among other related illnesses. Senator Ali Ndume (APC Borno South), in collaboration with the Borno State Government, Nigerians in the Diaspora (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA) and Saudi philanthropists, organised …

The Borno government has announced plans to subsidise fuel at N600 per litre to 5,000 farmers in communities hit by Boko Haram insurgents in the state. Governor Babagana Zulum announced this during the flag-off of the distribution of farm inputs to prospective farmers resettled by his administration in Bama and environs on Friday night. Bama was among the areas overrun …

The Theatre Commander North East ‘Operation Hadin Kai’, Major-General Shuaibu Waidi has handed over to the Borno State government, a Chibok schoolgirl, Ihi Abdul with her two children and 330 women and children, who were rescued from the dens of Boko Haram terrorists during various operations in Sambisa forests. Briefing journalists at the Theatre, Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri, he said: “Today, …

One of the schoolgirls abducted in 2014 from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, Lydia Simon returned yesterday with three kids. The rescued ‘young mother’, who was handed over to the Borno State government by the military for reunification with her family, is believed to be six months pregnant. North-East Joint Task Force (Operation Hadin Kai), Theatre Commander, Maj.-Gen. …

North East Development Commission (NEDC) has donated medical consumables and emergency equipment to 10 local government areas of Borno State and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) to boost healthcare delivery. Presenting the items to the beneficiaries yesterday in Maiduguri, the managing director of NEDC, Mohammed Alkali, said the gesture was part of the commission’s aim of meeting the …

The Borno State Government said it had started probing some non-governmental organisations in the state for their alleged involvement in the burning of Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Prof Usman Tar, disclosed in a statement on Sunday. The state in the recent past witnessed fire outbreaks in several IDP camps. Such cases …

The Borno State Ministry of Education has directed primary and secondary schools in the State to adjust their academic calendar and timing to suit the month of Ramadan. The directive was contained in a statement by the State Director of school Services in the ministry, Alhaji Mustapha Bukar, on Monday in Maiduguri. He stated that the adjustment was because of …

The Borno State government said it has enrolled 124,000 vulnerable people affected by insurgency into the healthcare system in some hard-to-reach local government areas in the state. Executive Secretary, Borno State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (BOSCHMA), Dr. Saleh Abba disclosed this to newsmen Maiduguri at the weekend. He said the agency aimed to enrol 250,000 vulnerable people affected by the …