The Yoruba Community in Borno State has called for urgent intervention and support following devastating floods that have affected at least 4,600 of its members, majorly artisans struggling for survival. The President of the Yoruba Community in Borno State, Saka Ganiyu Abiodun, made an appeal when speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri. According ...
•A flooded area The United Nation’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) says it has released US$5 million to scale up the flood response and address critical needs in three of the most flood affected states in Nigeria – Borno and Bauchi in the North-East, and Sokoto in the North-West. CERF made the announcement in a […]
It is not yet uhuru for residents of Maiduguri, Borno State capital even though the waters from the massive flood that hit the city recently have receded. Tragedy struck in Bodum area of Maiduguri during the week when one of the buildings weakened by the flood incident that hit the Borno State capital collapsed and […]
•Ogun River The federal government today commenced the dredging of the Ogun River from its Lagos State end, near Ikorodu, down to Isheri as part of efforts to prevent the perennial flooding of communities along this axis in Ogun and Lagos states. Speaking during the flag-off, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the […]...
A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have expressed concerns over the safety of residents around the submerged zoo parks in Borno State. It was earlier reported how thousands of residents fled their homes following a devastating flood in parts of Maiduguri, Borno State capital, reports Daily Trust In separate statements on Tuesday...
•Protesters The trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters will begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Borno today, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Intelligence, Dasuki Galadanchi, has disclosed. The DIG disclosed this at the just-ended Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), reports Daily Trust. He said those to be charg...
•Late Ahmed Ali Ahmed Borno State Commissioner of Finance, Ahmed Ali Ahmed, died today at his house on Damboa Road in Maiduguri, the state capital. Sources familiar with the matter said the commissioner’s room door was forced open after it was observed that his usual time of waking up had passed without any sign of […]
•Police There is confusion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as the Police Authority said, it has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed yesterday. The first day of the nationwide protests turned violent in some parts of the Metropolis, reports Vanguard. Town criers insisted on major streets that residents must not go out as the curfew [&helli...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), in collaboration with other security agencies, have imposed a 24-hour curfew in Borno State following a recent tragic incident. The announcement comes in response to the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kawori, which resulted in the deaths of 16 people and left several others critically inju...
A resident of Gwoza, Borno State, where a Boko Haram female suicide bomber recently killed no fewer than 32 persons and injured many others at a wedding, shared his heartrending travails when the terrorists struck in the community a few years earlier, reports The Nation. Jugule Ahmed’s life has not been the same since Boko […]
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