Borno State
25 Oct
Ngarannam residents were looking forward to move back in their hometown over the weekend as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) along with the Borno State government on Saturday (October 22) officially re-opened the community which was destroyed by Boko Haram fighters in 2015.
13 Aug 2020
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara Zulum has urged the Nigerian Air Force to increase the bombing of insurgents hideouts.
23 Nov 2019
The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, to relocate the Giwa Barracks in Galtimari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, 10km away from the University of Maiduguri.
10 Nov 2019
Shop owners are counting their losses after more than seventy-five shops were razed by inferno in Borno state.
16 Oct 2019
80 percent of Boko Haram fighters are from Borno State
29 May 2019
Dozens of kidnappers are arrested and have their weapons seized by the Borno State Police Command as part of efforts to curb a wave of kidnappings for ransom in Nigeria.
11 Apr 2019
Adamawa Senator kicks against domination of North East Commission by Borno State.
28 Jan 2019
This is not some parts of Borno state where insurgents have destroyed schools. These images are from a school in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial nerve centre. The students of State Junior High School, Ibereko, Badagry were pictured last week taking lessons under trees in the school premises.
30 Nov 2018
Senators bemoaned the reported killing of 44 soldiers attached to the 157 Task Force Battalion in Melete, Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents.
28 Nov 2018
Last week Thursday, the Senate shut its self down after about one and half hours of expressions of grief and sorrows over the overrunning of military base in Metele, Borno state, by Boko Haram insurgents penultimate Sunday which left scores of soldiers and some officers dead.
12 Jun 2017
Hours after attacks on a community and some areas in Maiduguri by the Boko Haram insurgents, acting president Yemi Osinbajo defied the presumed security threat to flagging off federal government’s emergency food intervention for the Northeast in Borno State.
6 Apr 2017
Unicef plans to reach 3.9 million people with emergency primary healthcare services in north-east Nigeria this year, as a third of the health facilities in Borno State have been completely destroyed.
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