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Borno NUJ Crises Takes New Turn As Union Denies selling part of its Plot
By: Ali Musa Biu- Naiduguri. The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has denied selling in any part of the plot allocated to it by the Borno State government to anybody or group of persons. A communique issued at the end of an emergency Congress of Borno State council on Monday signed by Zare Baba and…
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Fuel Scarcity Bites Harder Abuja, Borno
By: Ali Musa Biu- Maiduguri The fuel queues being experienced in Abuja have surfaced in major cities across Nigeria, including Maiduguri the Borno state capital where residents have expressed worries over its effects on general activities. National Trail correspondent reports that long queue have surfaced in Maiduguri with fuel price hitting as high as N500…
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When Gov. Zulum And Senator Shettima Toured The Mine Fields
By: Inuwa Bwala No matter the narrative others want to promote over the security situation in Borno, fact remains that relative peace has returned to areas hitherto vulnerable and inaccessible. Nowadays except for periodic encounters in the mop up exercises by the Military, the guns seem to be silent and life is returning to normal…
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Borno Celebrates Nigeria’s Longest serving Assembly Speaker Rt Hon Lawan
***Marks Ten years in office, as lawmakers lavish encomiums. By Ali Musa Biu- Maiduguri Nigeria’s longest serving Speaker of a state House of Assembly, Rt Hon Abdulkarim Lawan, who is also the Speaker Borno State House of Assembly, on Wednesday 9th February 2022) marked his uninterrupted leadership. Having clocked 10 years in office, Lawan emerged…
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Fuel Supply: NYCN constitutes Task Force , expresses optimism on steady supply
The National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has inaugurated a Task Force with a view to enforcing measures taken by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPC) to mitigate the difficulties faced by motorists as a result of short supply of premium motor spirit otherwise called petrol. Recall that the NNPC had on Tuesday directed…
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France, European Allies To Withdraw Troops From Mali After A Decade
France and its allies in a European force announced Thursday they would begin withdrawing troops from Mali after nearly 10 years fighting a jihadist insurgency. A statement signed by France and its African and European allies said that “multiple obstructions” by the ruling junta meant that the conditions were no longer in place to operate…
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Police Arrest Three Suspected Rail Track Vandals in Abia
Operatives of the Railway Command of the Nigerian Police Force have arrested three suspects of a syndicate that specialises in vandalising railway tracks in different parts of the country. The suspects are: Kelechi Ononiwu, 36; Kalu Egbe, 30, and Stanley 27. They were said to have engaged the police in a gun duel a few…
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2023: I‘ll Accept Calls by Nigerians to Run for President, Says Kogi Gov
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has said he would not turn down calls by many Nigerians asking him to run for seat of president in 2023, declaring the calls are patriotic offers that he would accept. The governor who made this known after his visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, stressed that that…
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Borrowing for Consumption is Nigeria’s Major Challenge – Peter Obi
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra, says borrowing for consumption is Nigeria’s major challenge. He said this in a tweet on Thursday. According to him, the country can borrow funds but they should be used wisely for investment. He said the mismanagement of borrowed funds has cost the country so much, hence the government should…
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CSO Protest over Shell Refusal to Respect Court Judgement
..Gives (14) day Ultimatum …Vows to Frustrate Sale Of assets A foremost civil society organisation, Save Nigeria Movement has threatened to hold protests in the country and united kingdom over Shell Petroleum Development Company’s refusal to implement a court judgement awarded against her by a Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo state since November,…