Former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has begged the people for forgiveness over the shortcomings of his government, noting that he might have offended the people in the course of leading the state for eight years. In his valedictory speech on Sunday at the Ramat Square venue of the inauguration of the new […]
MAIDUGURI, the Borno State capital, on Thursday, was rocked by three separate bomb explosions, which left an officer of the Nigeria Police dead, while several others were said to have suffered varying degrees of injury. In one of the explosions, five security officers were injured near a military checkpoint. This came barely 12 hours after […]
WOMEN in the Borno State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the nomination of Hajia Inna Ciroma for a ministerial position by the state chapter of the party. Rising from an emergency meeting held at the PDP state secretariat in Maiduguri, on Wednesday, the women stakeholders rejected the nomination of Ciroma, the […]
ABUJA-TO thwart any possible attack by the Boko Haram sect, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, has beefed up security in about seven states including Borno, Bauchi, Kaduna, Niger, Plateau and Kano. Ringim, also said yesterday that the post-election violence which engulfed parts of the country could not have been avoided. Fielding questions from […]
SUSPECTED Boko Haram gunmen have shot and killed three prisons warders, along with a housewife, in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Abaganaram ward of Maiduguri metropolis. One of the prison warders and his wife, were ambushed on Monday night at the Abagaram ward shop at about 10.35 p.m., while the two other […]
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Early morning bomb explosions on Tuesday in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, and Burutu in Delta State created panic, forcing many voters to stay away from the governorship and House of Assembly elections. The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the explosions in London Ciki and Baga Road in Maiduguri took place simultaneously around 5.40am. […]
NO fewer than three people were confirmed dead while 14 others were seriously injured, when unknown persons threw a locally made bomb into some beer joints on Sunday, at about 8.30 p.m., in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Mike E. Zuokumor, addressing newsmen on Monday in his office, […]
Maiduguri — Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in Maiduguri, while at least 15 were wounded, the police said today. The police said they suspected the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram was behind the attacks on Easter Sunday night at a hotel tavern and transport hub in Maiduguri, as well as a […]
Maiduguri -The Borno State Police Command announced, Thursday, that a police inspector was killed in a bomb explosion in “London Ciki Ward” of Maiduguri ,Wednesday night. Malam Mai Mamman, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO , told newsmen in Maiduguri that the bomb was thrown at a police vehicle that was conveying policemen to evacuate bodies […]
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