•Protesters against the kidnappings The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Malick Fall, has called for the immediate and safe release of schoolchildren and teachers abducted in recent attacks in Oyo and Borno states. Fall made the call after meeting with a delegation from the National Safe Schools Response...
•Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Human Services, Shetima Muhammad At least 39 people have died, while about 4,204 cases of cholera have been recorded across seven local government areas of Borno State. The Incident Manager, Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, Dr. Jacob Thlizer, gave the update today during a sensitisation me...
•Tinubu The residents of Borno State have expressed their previous concerns over the federal government’s prolonged silence since the abduction of 48 primary and junior secondary school pupils and students in Mussa community, Askira Uba Local Government Area of the state. The aggrieved residents noted that the government had prioritised a simi...
•Nigerian Senate Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday condemned the abduction of 87 students and teachers in Borno and Oyo states within 24 hours. Bamidele, also Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, added that the recent abduction accentuated the need to expedite the establishment of state ...
•Terrorists Fresh concerns over Nigeria’s worsening security crisis have emerged following coordinated ransom demands totalling N6bn by terrorists holding hundreds of abducted victims in Borno and Kaduna states. In Borno State, Boko Haram insurgents are demanding N5bn for the release of 416 women and children abducted from Ngoshe community in ...
•Late Brigadier General Braimah Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah and 17 soldiers paid the supreme price early Thursday in coordinated attacks by suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) on military formations in Benisheikh, Kaga Local Government Area, as well as Ngamdu and Pulka town in the Gwoza LGA of Borno ...
•Tinubu Former Presidential Aide, Laolu Akande, has said while the directive for the military high command to relocate to Borno State over last week’s attacks was commendable, President Bola Tinubu missed the opportunity of prioritising empathy and showing sympathy at a time of renewed terrorist attacks in the North-East. At least 23 people we...
•Travellers crossing security check point in Yobe State Following the recent attacks across Borno State, the Nigerian Army and the Police have commenced a new security exercise, subjecting travellers, including elders and children, to a two-kilometer foot walk when crossing the checkpoint into Yobe before heading to Borno State. Recall, it wa...
Some survivors of Monday night’s bomb blasts in Maiduguri, Borno State, recounted their ordeals yesterday, describing the multiple explosions as reminiscent of a war situation. The accounts came on a day President Bola Tinubu ordered service chiefs to relocate to Maiduguri to take charge of the situation, reports Vanguard. This is even as the ...
•People carry an injured man past corpses covered with sheets Police authorities in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, have confirmed that a total of 23 persons were killed while 108 others sustained injuries after three bomb blasts were detonated last night. The spokesman of the Command, Nahum Kenneth-Daso, who disclosed this in a press sta...
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