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The Nigerian Army, yesterday, said it has rescued over 1,000 hostages from Boko Haram terrorists’ enclaves in different parts of Borno State. The Army said its troops of 22 Brigade deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole rescued the hostages after operations were conducted with allies of...

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says Nigerian Army will work with National Park Service and Borno Government to revive Sambisa forest to attract tourists into the country. Buratai said this....... Read more via PM NEWS Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2qXDYlb Get More Nigeria...

The Borno State government has confirmed three persons dead following fresh outbreak of cholera in villages around the Lake Chad axis of the State. Leadership Recalls that Cholera epidemic first hit Borno in August, last year, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, and quickly spread through several...

Troops in Borno killed five Boko Haram insurgents and captured a top commander of the group in the ongoing operation in Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad basin. Col. Onyeama Nwachukwu, Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of Operation Lafiya Dole, in a statement in Maiduguri, said troops also...

There are more than 382,000 people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Benue, Ondo and Borno states. The Acting Country Programme Manager, AIDS Healthcare Foundation Nigeria, Dr. Greg Abiaziem, Benue State ranks first in the HIV/AIDS prevalence rating in Nigeria according to the...

It will appear that Gov. Shettima of Borno state has the most honest face in Nigerian politics. He was unable to hide his true feeling on the state of Buhari's health. To be fare, the Gov has been dealing with many issues over the years that has made him unable to play along with the current...

Borno state officials have warned residents to be vigilant as Boko Haram now uses female suicide bombers carrying babies to avoid detection in their attacks. BBC reports that female attackers have been seen before, but officials said the use of babies could signal a "dangerous" trend. An...

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno, has declared 2016 as his best year ever since he was sworn into power. He described the fall of Sambisa Forest which served as the headquarters of ‘Boko Haram’ insurgents as Christmas and New Year gift to the people of the State from President Muhammadu...

Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno said the state government had uncovered more than10,000 ghost workers out of the 25,000 civil servants in the state’s work force. The governor said in a radio and television broadcast in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the workers were uncovered after a verification...

The Borno State commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ibrahim Abdullahi, says the agency has uncovered at least 40 fake non-governmental organisations, NGOs, that are exploiting internally displaced persons, IDPs, in Borno State. In an interview with NAN over the...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno on Thursday said that it had arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly raping an Internally Displaced Person. The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri that the 13-year-old...

Two Village Heads and one Sarkin Fulani have been suspended by the Emirate council in Yobe state over the diversion of food meant for Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, in Buni-Yadi in the state. Gujba Emirate Council of Yobe State cited nonchalant attitude, indiscipline and breach of trust...

The Borno Government has directed all civil servants in the 10 local government areas of the state liberated by the military from Boko Haram to return to work with immediate effect. Alhaji Usman Zannah, the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, gave the directive...

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State said yesterday that his government got only N345 million from donor agencies in five years. Refuting claims that his government mismanaged huge funds from international donor organisations and humanitarian agencies, Governor Shettima 6 states donated...

The Borno State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, on Sunday discovered two bomb-making factories in Dikwa. According to Vanguard, the NSCDC Commandant in the state, Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi, who made this known in Maiduguri, said the factories were discovered during a...

A soldier, and four other persons that include a mother and child were killed in Biu, Borno state, the Nigerian Army said yesterday.The unfortunate incident happened when a tricycle (‘Keke Napep’) accidentally climbed a Improvised Explosive Device, IED, planted along Damboa road, close to a...

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Saturday said it was yet to locate the missing girls taken away by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014 from a school in Chibok, Borno State. The clarification came on the heels of media reports suggesting that the NAF had found the location where the kidnapped...