Borno State Government has declared a one-day statewide fast for Monday, February 19, to seek divine intervention on the rising cost of food items and the spate of landmine explosions across its major roads. In a statewide broadcast on Friday, Governor Babagana Zulum said: “I speak to you today with a heavy heart, but also with a determination to address the …

Suspected Boko Haram members who were riding on camels have ambushed no fewer than 11 local wood-loggers and beheaded them. The killing, newsmen gathered, occurred in Damboa Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State. A reliable source who works as a member of the vigilante group in the area and availed our correspondent with the information via the phone disclosed …

More people experience food and nutrition insecurity in Borno, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, and Kano states, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). It noted Cadre Harmonisé report said 17.6 million in 26 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT),  suffer from food and nutrition crises. The report added between March and May, the top food and nutrition insecure states were Lagos …

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the release of N10 million as a relief package to soldiers wounded during battles in the state. It was a fulfilment of Zulum’s pledge two months ago at a Sallah launch, organised by the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja. The state Commissioner of Information and Internal Security, Prof. …

A Borno State High Court has sentenced a man, Danladi Mohammed to one-year imprisonment after convicting him of fraud. In a statement on Friday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that Mohammed was jailed following his conviction on one count of criminal misappropriation of N7.6 million. He converted proceeds of 8,000 pieces of camping lanterns, which he claimed were …

The Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Hajiya Yabawa Kolo has said that the agency under her leadership was able to repatriate 3,500 displaced persons taking refuge in Niger, Cameroun and Chad Republics, even as close to 1 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were resettled back to their liberated communities in the last five and half …

In a devastating skirmish in Gudumbali, Borno State, the Islamic State of the West Africa Province (ISWAP) is said to have killed 200 Boko Haram members, including women and children. Sources said the ISWAP insurgents targeted hundreds of the Boko Haram terrorists and their families at Choliye village while fleeing ISWAP attacks. Counter Insurgency Expert and Security in Lake Chad, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the 50 megawatts (MW) Maiduguri emergency power project. Speaking at the occasion on Thursday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, Buhari said the project was a testament to his administration’s innovations in the power sector. He said the project showed yet another example of an immediate solution to moving the power sector forward in order …

Terrorists attacked the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday, inflicting injuries on a some voters. The insurgents fired gunshots from the top of the Mandara Mountains during Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in Gwoza, located in the East of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. At a media briefing in Abuja on Saturday, the Chairman of the …