north east

President Muhamadu Buhari has promised that the Federal Government would support universities affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. Buhari who was represented by Prof. Salihu Abdullahi, made this known on Saturday at the 23rd Convocation of Modibbo Adama University of...

Efforts to return normalcy to Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region received a boost on Friday, after international donors promised over 200 billion Naira to help prevent famine. The money, to be spread over three years, was pledged at a humanitarian conference in Oslo, Norway. Co-hosted...

Few days after a clampdown on Alargano, the spiritual headquarters of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, the Nigerian Army said it has successful captured it. The head of the counter-insurgency operations in the North-East (Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole), Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor, while...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday disclosed that his administration has plans to extend oil and gas exploration into new fields in the Lake Chad Basin in the North East and in the coastal states, like Lagos, where oil has been discovered in commercial quantity. The president was represented...

The Nigerian Army has issued a warned that it would shut down markets hampering the on-going anti-insurgency operations in the North-East. Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the acting Director, Army Public Relations said some criminal elements were using certain markets to aid the Boko Haram...

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Sani Sidi, on Friday said there was no remaining community in the North East under the control of Boko Haram insurgents, Premium Times reports He made this statement at an award ceremony organized by Northern Youth Council in...