Many persons were feared dead when a bomb blast rocked Muna garage in Maiduguri, the Borno capital, Daily Trust reports. According to an eye witness at least 10 corpses were seen at the scene of the explosion. However, a source in the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital said at least 18 bodies have been deposited in the hospital morgue. The incident has... Read More
Muna garage in Borno has been hit by a bomb blast, The Leadership reports. According to the newspaper, the incident was reported by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), as it said emergency workers were on the way to the scene. Just in: there is a reported case of bomb blast around Muna garage Maiduguri Borno, details later… —... Read More
Surely you must have noticed, the North East of Nigeria has been on a multi-year war that had killed thousands and left millions homeless. Which is perhaps the problem – a lack of precision can lead to a lack of empathy, so that slowly a citizenry finds itself deadened to ‘thousands’ and ‘millions’; just another... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
Governor of Borno state Kashim Shettima says Maiduguri, the Borno state capital is more secure than Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, and Abuja, the seat of political power. Shettima made the disclosure on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri. Shettima said despite Maiduguri’s population of two million people it recorded no incident... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
Heartland FC of Owerri on Wednesday was involved in a road accident in the city of Maiduguri, according to Vanguard. The Nigeria Professional Football League travelled to Maiduguri to face El-Kanemi Warriors in a league tie. According to reports no deaths was recorded but some of the players sustained varying degrees of injuries and are currently on their way... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of... Read More
by Eromo Egbejule In an age where social media has made it increasingly urgent for newsrooms to break the news at, well, breakneck speed, and in a country where media budgets are crippled by a lack of depth, there is also the temptation to leave the story in their barest forms – simply sensational headlines,... Read More
Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote visited some of the IDP camps in Maiduguri, Borno state on Sunday. He was joined by famous international band, U2’s lead singer, Bono. The visit was guided by Borno state governor, Kassim Shettima who showed Dangote and Bono around and provided information on the state of the camps and... Read More
A man named Yusuf Gulumbo on Facebook has shared a picture of persons who he claimed were IDPs at the Teachers village camp in Maiduguri coming back from the streets where he said they went to beg. According to him, he was stepping out of the camp when he saw the IDPs coming from where... Read More
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from various camps in Maiduguri are presently protesting on the streets over hunger and thirst. The IDPs who are in their hundreds barricaded the city’s main entry point, causing a gridlock along the Kano Maiduguri highway. One of the IDPs who identified herself as Aisha from Marte said, “We are not... Read More
All Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) will return home latest May 29 next year, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima said on Tuesday. Shettima said this while speaking to State House Correspondents after a meeting with the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry alongside some Northern governors at the Presidential Villa. He revealed that the population... Read More
by Mazi Emeka “I grew up knowing the fact that they say a lot of negative things about the police,” says Aliyu Giwa. “At some stage in my life, I started writing against the police.” But that was until he found himself in the police force and became the poster boy for the highly contentious,... Read More
Twenty personnel of the Nigerian Army have been arraigned before a court martial over charges of gun-running, human rights abuses and murder. According to The Daily Trust, the affected personnel include four officers and sixteen soldiers. The commander in charge of 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Victor Ezudwu, while inaugurating the court martial at... Read More
The Nigerian Army on Thursday said its troops returning from an humanitarian escort duty was attacked by suspected Boko Haram members in Meleri Village, close to Maiduguri. This is according to a statement released by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Usman Sani. The statement confirmed that 2 soldiers and 3 civilians were wounded in... Read More
A former minister of Mines, Power and Petroleum, Shettima Ali-Monguno has been declared dead. The demise of the elder statesman was announced by the Secretary to the Borno State Government, Jidda Shuwa in a statement on Friday in Maiduguri. The statement read, “It is with a deep sense of loss and profound sadness that we... Read More
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