A police constable attached to Cocin Church at Gomari ward of Maiduguri metropolis, Mr. P .C. Amos, was shot dead last night by suspected serial killers that had been terrorising the state since the Boko Haram crisis in 2009. Nigerian Tribune gathered that residents of Gomari Airport in Maiduguri metropolis, were thrown into confusion following […]
TWO suspected Boko Haram gunmen on a commercial motorcycle have killed a policeman in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The victim was returning from night patrol to his Gwange residence in mufti when the bandits struck. The murder of the policeman came two days after Saturday’s setting ablaze of Victory Christ Church (VICC) in the […]
THE Borno and Yobe States delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, boycotted a meeting with former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar over his aspiration to contest the Presidency on the party’s platform. Even though the decision was not disclosed, a delegate from Maiduguri Metropolitan council said their boycott […]
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) at an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, shared $1billion from the Excess Crude Account. With the disbursement of the amount, the balance in the ECA account now stands at $3million. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted for only 29 minutes (11:10am and ended at about 11:39am). […]
AFTER a four-hour gun battle with suspected members of Boko Haram, the joint police/military taskforce yesterday arrested an alleged financier of the group, Alhaji Bunu Wakil and 91 other persons. Also, in Lagos, the state police commissioner, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo assured that members of Boko Haram would not be able to operate in the state. […]
SUSPECTED members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, who on Tuesday killed a policeman and two others in a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, renewed their offensive on Wednesday in the state capital. Wherever they struck, either a resident or a security officer was brought down in cold bold. Embattled residents in the scenes […]
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was the scene of yet another bloodbath on Wednesday night as assailants believed to be members of a radical Islamic group killed eight people, including three policemen, in the city. An army spokesman, Lt. Abubakar Abdullahi, told the Agence France Presse by telephone that the members of the group […]
GOVERNOR Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State, yesterday, presented a budget of N99, 806, 804, 000.00 for the 2011 fiscal year to the State House Assembly barely five months to the expiration of his second term in office. Tagged “Budget of Satisfaction” and considered a surplus budget, it has a slight difference of 12, representing […]
MEMBERS of an Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in utter contempt for the authorities defiantly continued their killing spree, yesterday, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital killing seven persons. They attacked a police vehicle, the latest in a string of attacks by the group and wounded eight people. A military spokesman said the vehicle was “burnt […]
Three persons were killed on Tuesday in a fresh attack in Maiduguri, Borno State, where a similar violence led to the death of six persons the same day bomb explosions claimed scores of lives in Jos. Some assailants suspected to be members of a religious sect, Boko Haram, fired shots into a teaching hospital killing […]
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