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11 Mar
Security forces yesterday continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the Northwest of the country in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, as calls for an overhaul of the security hierarchy intensify.
29 Feb
Two labourers have reportedly lost their lives in bomb explosions at two separate construction sites in Dikwa Local Council of Borno State.
25 Feb
The Borno Government has resettled 447 households displaced by the insurgency to newly constructed houses in Dalori village of Konduga Local Government Area.
19 Feb
Minister of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Hannatu Musawa says communal peace and unity will ensure the preservation of the Kanuri cultural heritage. Musawa made the statement at a two-day Kanem Borno Cultural Summit hosted by the Borno Emirate Concerned Citizens Forum (BECCF) at the University of Maiduguri at the weekend. In her keynote…
19 Feb
The Federal Government has announced plans to establish the Kanem Borno Museum, aimed at preserving Kanuri cultural artefacts. The Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa announced this at the just concluded Kanem Borno Cultural Summit and Colloquium in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Musawa said that the Kanem Museum when established,…
17 Feb
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, yesterday, said that his administration is determined to overcome the various challenges that have befallen the people in the state.
15 Feb
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has commissioned rebuilt houses and a border market for teachers and returnee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
12 Feb
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested 24 suspected drug traffickers and dealers, including a 42-year-old man conveying thousands of concealed opioid pills to insurgents in the Banki area of Borno State.
28 Jan
Before some headline and title readers arrive on this scene to deplore this article before reading it, let me quickly state from the outset that this stuff isn’t about the elite in the North some of whom have been quite remarkable in their interventions on National issues.
12 Jan
Borno State Governor Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has lost his Special Assistant on Media and Strategy Isa Gusau. The Borno State Government announced Gusau's death in a statement on Friday. "We regret to announce that Mallam Isa Gusau died in the early hours of Thursday in a hospital outside the country after battling with heart…
12 Jan
ISWAP militants have severed the hands of two fishermen in Marte, Borno State, for allegedly stealing fish.
10 Jan
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has ordered the reactivation of the South Chad Irrigation Project (SCIP) to boost food security and create jobs.

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