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Forum laments growing rights abuses
• Tasks govt on extra-judicial killing
Chapter Four of the Constitution provides for every citizen’s right to life, with an exception that such right could only be withheld if one commits a criminal offence and he/she is taken duly, through...
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Borno Govt To Set Up Committee On Fertiliser Distribution
The Borno Government is to set up a committee for effective fertiliser distribution, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Usman Zannah, has said.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Maiduguri, that the committee would comprise...
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Governors declare curfew in Yobe, Borno State
Kaduna relaxes restriction of movement
THE governors of Yobe and Borno have imposed curfew on their states while the Kaduna government relaxed the curfew in the state.
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State yesterday imposed a dusk-to-dawn...
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Bomb explodes in Maiduguri
BARELY 24 hours after the multiple bomb blasts that rocked Bulunkutu and Abaganaram wards of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno State, another one planted on the middle of Galadima Road by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect exploded in the...
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Gunmen kill cleric, soldiers escape blast in Borno State
A fresh blast yesterday hit one of the checkpoints in Bulabulin Ngarnam ward of Maiduguri, Borno State, sending many residents running for their lives.
Thankfully, however, no life was lost to the improvised explosives.
But two suspected Boko...
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Boko Haram kills Borno lawmaker
MAIDUGURI—A member of the Borno State House of Assembly, Mr. Modu Bintube, was, Sunday evening, in Maiduguri, shot dead by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect.
A spokesman for the Joint Task Force said: ”The member was shot dead in...
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Boko Haram top commander, five others arrested
MAIDUGURI — Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima said yesterday, that a top commander of the deadly sect, Boko Haram has been arrested alongside five other members. With the arrest, a relieved Governor Shettima who confirmed it to the...
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Boko Haram kills 3 in Maiduguri
MAIDUGURI – AS the spate of killings on the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital continues unabated, unknown gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram sect members, Wednesday, killed three people and injured two others during an attack...
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PHCN cable electrocutes 2 teenagers in Maiduguri
“The two boys went swimming in a river where a live electric cable had fallen inside.”
In Borno State, tragedy struck Friday morning at the bank of a river behind Gidan Madara area of the Maiduguri metropolis when two teenagers...
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7 dead, 10 injured, churches razed as soldiers, sect members clash in Borno
At least seven persons were feared killed when soldiers and members of an Islamic sect in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State clash yesterday.
Ten persons also sustained serious injuries during the incident while two churches belonging...
