The first lady of Borno State, Dr Falmata Zulum, has marked International Women’s Day (IWD) by distributing N150 million cash and food items to 3,000 vulnerable women. Each of the 3,000 beneficiaries selected from across the 27 local government areas of the state received N50,000 cash, one bag of rice, one carton of macaroni and a gallon of 5 litres …

President Bola Tinubu has condemned what he called “the heinous incidents of abduction involving very vulnerable victims, internally-displaced persons in Borno State, and students in Kaduna State”. In a statement on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the President directed security and intelligence agencies to “immediately rescue the victims and ensure that …

The Borno State government has generated N2.8 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) between 1 January and 15 February 2024. The Executive Chairman of Borno State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Prof. Bello Ibrahim stated this at a news conference on Friday in Maiduguri. He said the Service collected N1.7 billion revenues in January while N1.1 billion had been generated from 1 …

About 285,000 children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency and children of the vulnerable have been taught basic literacy and numeracy under UNICEF’s Teaching at the Right Level initiative in Borno State over the last three years. The initiative was funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office of the British government. UNICEF said the project, which is currently in its …

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State has won all the 27 chairmanship and 312 councillor positions in Saturday’s council polls in the state. This is even as the newly elected chairmen and councillors of Konduga, Jere and other local government areas have lauded what they described as the “open-door, grassroots politics” of the APC Deputy National Chairman …

One of the existing most notorious Boko Haram commanders, Abu Asad has been killed at the Mandara Hills axis of Borno State. According to reports, Abu Asad was killed with scores of his combatants at Tungushe in an air raid by the air component of Operation Hadin Kai Theatre Command between midnight of Saturday and early morning of Sunday, 25 …

Amidst reported threats by terrorists to attack Monguno in northern Borno State, Governor Babagana Zulum, has announced the closure of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the Government Senior Science Secondary School, Monguno. The closure of the Monguno camp brings to about 13 IDP camps that the state government has closed since 2018. The Monguno IDPs camp, about 120 …

The air component of the joint military task force, “Operation Hadin Kai’’ knocked out several terrorists in the Ajigin and Banki Junction areas of Borno in two major air strikes on 8 November and 11 November. Director of Public Relations and Information at the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, stated on Sunday in Abuja that the interdictions were …

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Zabarmari rice farmers in the Mafa local government area of Borno State and killed over 15 of them. A rice farmer, who confirmed the incident yesterday to LEADERSHIP in Maiduguri, Awali Casa, said there was fear among the rest of the farmers as they were still searching for the bodies of their members killed …

The Borno State Government has banned street begging and loitering in Maiduguri city and environs. This is contained in a public notice issued by the Borno State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Prof. Usman Tar, on Sunday in Maiduguri. Tar said street begging and aimless loitering were not part of the culture of the Borno people. “In Borno State, street …