The Police Command in Borno has banned the engagement of quasi-security outfits by political parties and their candidates for electioneering campaign in the state. The Commisioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar stated this during a monthly Police Officers’ Conference in…
The Borno Scholarship Board has begun registration of over 40,000 indigent students for bursary award during the 2021/2022 academic session. The Executive Secretary of the board, Malam Bala Isa, told journalists on Tuesday in Maiduguri that the board had opened…
Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION), an NGO, says the organisation has reached 59,452 women with sexual and reproductive health services in Borno between 2021 and the first quarter of 2022. MSION Research Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, North East, Mr…
Borno Police Command, on Wednesday, said it had arrested eight suspected kidnappers in the state. Parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Maiduguri, the Police Commissioner in the state, Abdu Umar, said that the suspects were arrested by men…
The Borno Police Command says security operatives have arrested a Boko Haram suspect, Mubarak Alhaji Jubunai, in Gamborun Ngala Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Abdu Umar, confirmed this in Maiduguri on…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has commiserated with families of victims of attack coordinated by Boko Haram/Islamic State of the West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents at Mudu village in Kala Balge Local Government Area of the state. In a condolence…
The Director of Forestry and Wildlife, Ministry of Environment, Borno, Mr Peter Ayuba, has confirmed the killing of a lion by hunters in Konduga Local Government Area. Ayuba, who spoke to Newsmen on the incident on Tuesday in Maiduguri, said…
The Borno Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has seized 320 herds of cattle for destroying farmland in Molai village near Maiduguri. The State Commandant, Mr Musa Farouk, made this known to newsmen on Friday in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Borno have engaged in war of words over on-going resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The IDPs are being resettled from their Maiduguri camps to their respective local…
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of one David Osigbe Irumekhei to six months imprisonment before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High…
