The Presidential Committee on North-East Initiatives has lamented that the N45billion budgeted by Federal Government to feed over 2.6 million Internally Displaced Persons in Boko Haram affected sub-region, was grossly inadequate, compared to what the international community has expended on humanitarian services. The Presidential panel, however requires N108billion to “effectively and efficiently intervene and feed” IDPs in camps and liberated communities of the affected states in Northeast sub-region of the country.
Category: Maiduguri, Nigeria
Nigerian fighter jet strikes refugees, aid workers in Borno
A Nigerian fighter jet misfired during an operation Tuesday, striking refugees at a camp in Borno state for the internally displaced, as well as aid workers with the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to Nigerian officials and the Red Cross. Maj. Gen.
Boko Haram claims Nigeria university attack
BAUCHI/MAIDUGURI – Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind Monday’s twin suicide bombing at a university in north eastern Nigeria which killed two people. A video featuring an audio recording purporting to be leader Abubakar Shekau was posted on social media late on Monday.
.com | Bomb blasts at Nigeria’s Maiduguri University kill 5
One student said the first blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and many are feared among the victims. A university worker said the second bomb went off at an entrance gate.
5 suicide bombers die, kill 3 near Nigeria’s Maiduguri city
Five suicide bombers trying to infiltrate Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri have died in explosions that killed at least three civilians, police said Monday, blaming Boko Haram Islamic extremists. Sunday night’s blasts occurred more than 10 kilometers apart on the city’s eastern outskirts, deputy superintendent Victor Isuku said.
Suicide bomber ‘aged around 10’ attacks market
One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year’s Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses and aid workers told AFP Sunday. The girl approached a crowd around a food vendor in the Customs area of the city around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday and detonated her explosives, they said.
Boko Haram Finished? a Nope.
The 21 rescued Chibok girls were able to celebrate Christmas at the site of their abduction. But hundreds more continue to live in slavery and despair.