North East

Five people were killed Sunday night after an attack by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers near Maiduguri.The suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked Kaleri, a neighbourhood of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.The attack…

The Boko Haram situation is getting worrisome in North- eastern Nigeria as the extremist group continues to grow bolder with the dawn of a new day. News filtering out of the theatre of operations has confirmed that gallant troops of the…

Boko Haram has overrun a Nigeria Army base in the remote north-east barely twenty-four hours after attacking Nigerian troops in an ambush during a failed assault mission. Nigerian Troops suffered heavy casualties in that operation while the…

Reports coming out of the North-East have reported a Boko Haram ambush on Nigerian Army personnel in Bama. The soldiers of 151 Battalion of the Nigerian Army came under ambush during a failed assault operation in the area.Although exact…

The FADAMA III Second Additional Financing (AFII) Programme is planning to launch infrastructure and cash-for-work strategies to strengthen the implementation of its North East Food Security and Livelihood Emergency Support Project.Dr…

The UK is committed to addressing the humanitarian crisis in North-East Nigeria, as part of efforts to support the victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the region.Louis Edwards, Second Secretary Political (Niger Delta) and Head of…

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, says oil exploration in the North East is for the good of the nation.He said this during “Overview of 2018 Budget Proposal” on Tuesday in Abuja.He added that “we have an…

The Federal Government has approved the implementation of the United Kingdom-Department For International Development (UK-DFID) 46 million pounds North-East Humanitarian Response Programme. It said this in excerpts of a book entitled…

The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has congratulated the Governments and people of the North-East region on the establishment of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari.According to a…

Gov. Kashi Shettima of Borno on Sunday said the establishment of North-East Development Commission (NEDC) was a direct response to the large scale devastation caused to the North-East by Boko Haram insurgents.The governor said this in a…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the 48 per cent increase in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) funding was key in addressing the North-East development challenges.The agency…

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was helping to search for 11,600 separated family members displaced by crisis in the northeast.The information is in a document from the ICRC on facts and figures for the…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) says about 3.4 million people need nutrition assistance due to food crisis caused by Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.This is contained in the…

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has called for international conference on North East and Boko Haram threat in Nigeria.He made the call during General Debate at the 137 Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly on Sunday…

At least 3,000 of the troops involved in the ongoing counter insurgency operations in the North-East have so far been rotated, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, has said.Buratai disclosed this in an interview with newsmen…