The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday denied indicting commanders and soldiers of lack of commitment to ongoing counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations in the North-East. He claimed that he was quoted out of context. Buratai had at a leadership transformational workshop for middle cadre officers and soldiers in Abuja on June 18…

Borno Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday said 30 persons lost thier lives while 42 others were injured when three suicide bombers detonated Improvised Explossive Device (IED) in Mandarari community of Konduga Local government area of the state. Usman Kachala, SEMA Director Search, Rescue and Operations who disclosed this to news men when he visited…

Residents in the outskirts of Maiduguri on Sunday witnessed some skirmishes following indiscriminate shooting by some soldiers.

World Health Organisation (WHO) has empowered 5,500 health workers with capacity building interventions in the insurgency-affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. According to the global health agency, the interventions are to address impact of current conflicts on healthcare delivery system in the region. This was disclosed in WHO’s Weekly Report released yesterday in Borno…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Borno tops with 15,237 cases of measles with 75 deaths across Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. The cases were also reported to have spread to 22 local councils affected by Boko Haram insurgency. This was disclosed yesterday in the global agency’s weekly report released to journalists in Maiduguri.…

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, said the death of three military personnel on Monday in Borno was “wake-up call’’ for the army to further strategise to defeat terrorists. He stated this at the burial of Lt.-Col. Ibrahim Aminu, Cpl. Jibril Ahmadu and Lance Cpl. Tijjani Mohammed, at the Maimalari Cantonment Cemetery in Maiduguri…

The League Management Company (LMC) yesterday descended on El Kanemi Football Club of Maiduguri over the alleged hooliganism that trailed their 2-2 draw with Go Round in the Nigerian Professional League (NPFL) last week. At the end of the Match Day 17 fixture in Maiduguri, some people suspected to be supporters of El Kanemi Warriors…

Air traffic Controllers (ATCs) have cried out over the deplorable state of control towers and poor radio communication at several airports in the country. The critical workforce, at a recent stakeholders’ meeting in Lagos, said the perennial problems are risky to safe flight operations. Most disturbing are the control towers at airports in Kaduna, Maiduguri,…

Some 2,000 people have been forced to flee to the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri ahead of a major offensive against Boko Haram, emergency services and residents told AFP on Tuesday. Nigerian troops herded residents of Jakana village into trucks and ferried them 40 kilometres (25 miles) to a displacement camp in the Borno State…

No fewer than five persons were reportedly killed at the weekend, when two suspected suicide bombers detonated their strapped Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at Muna Garage in Maiduguri, Borno State. Another 46 persons also sustained various degrees of injuries in the twin suicide bomb blasts. Spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the…

Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) defied the early Saturday morning explosion scare in Maiduguri and came out en mass to cast their votes in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. The News Agency of Nigeria of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there was a large turnout of voters at the Teachers Village’s IDPs in Maiduguri,…

After a week-long delay, Nigerians began voting for a new president on Saturday. Some 120,000 polling stations began opening from 0700 GMT, although there were indications of a delay in the delivery of some materials and deployment of staff, AFP reporters said. Results are expected from early next week, with the winner gaining control of…