GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has described as very scary recent findings showing that as many as 31.6% of the teachers employed in his state are incompetent with as many as 22.1% of them not even being trainable.
Yesterday, the governor was reacting to findings submitted to him by a committee tasked with...
DEFENCE operatives and Borno State officials have held a mini-summit in Maiduguri during they which they discussed the modalities that will govern the ongoing surrender of Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (Iswap) militants.
Over recent weeks, hundreds of militants have been laying down their arms and...
GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has warned that a famine is imminent in the state unless later this year unless local farmers who have been displaced by the violence of insurgent groups are allowed to return to their farms.
Since 2009, Boko Haram insurgents have been fighting a war against the Nigerian government in...
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(1) In Niger State, Governor Mohammed Bello Niger is sitting on a total land mass of 76,363 square kilometres. He should open a ranch that straddles Mokwa and Mashegwu local government areas that have a combined acreage of 13,520 square kilometres. Its headquarters should be in Mokwa where a feed compounding plant...
CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria (Can) leaders have challenged Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State to provide evidence to back his recent claims that some members of their faith were Boko Haram insurgents and engage in its terrorist activities.
Last Friday, Governor Zulum has claimed that Boko Haram had Christians among...
GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has lashed out at Arab nations for not doing enough to help his people or provided them with enough humanitarian assistance as they grapple with the Boko Haram insurgency.
Borno State has been the epicentre of the insurgency that has been raging since 2009 as Boko Haram seek to...
FOREIGN military mercenary armies who helped contain the Boko Haram insurgency in the dying months of Jonathan era have vowed never to return to Nigeria again even if asked to by the government after the shabby way they were treated.
Last weekend, Boko Haram beheaded 43 farmers in Borno State, prompting calls for the...African News
BOKO Haram leader Sheikh Abubakar Shekau has confirmed that his terrorist sect was responsible for the recent killing of rice farmers in the Kwashebe Zabarmari axis of Jere Local Government Area of Borno State.
Over the weekend, it was reported that 43 farmers had their throats slit by Boko Haram terrorists in one of the...
GOVERNORS of Nigeria's six states in the northeast geo-political zone have decried the allocation of N43.32bn ($113m) to the North East Development Commission in the 2021 federal budget saying it is not enough to execute the required capital projects.
Earlier this month, President Muhammadu Buhari presented Nigeria's most...
GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has raised a fresh alarm over the resurgence of terrorism in the country warning that Boko Haram has now resorted to recruiting young militants from internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has been fighting a war of insurgency against the Nigerian state and at...
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