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The Transmission Company of Nigeria, however, revealed that it had located the fault and had arranged to repair the line, stressing that bulk electricity supply would be restored to the town on Monday, January 20.
The Nigerian Army has dismissed three soldiers arrested among a kidnapping gang in the outskirts of Maiduguri and handed them over to the police.
The attack on a funeral procession in Maiduguri, Borno state, has been condemned by President Muhammadu Buhari, who promised that those behind the dastardly act "will pay a big price for their actions".
The soldiers shut the gate of the newspaper's Maiduguri regional office, after arresting the two editorial staff on sight at the time of the raid and requested to see Daily Trust political editor, Hamza Idris, over a report.
The University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) on Thursday, June 28, commissioned a resource centre for violence extremism within and around the Lake Chad region. The facility was donated by the North-East Region Initiative.
Falmata Abubakar, the mother of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly spoken for the first time since her son became terrorist, leading ferocious attacks on communities and towns in the north-eastern part of Nigeria.
The Borno command of the Nigeria Police Force, on Sunday, June 10, confirmed that tragedy was averted when a bomber heading to the market mistakenly detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killing himself alone.
Troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole, in a joint-counter insurgency operation with Cameroonian Defence Forces and the Civilian Joint Task Force, on Thursday, May 18, over-ran a Boko Haram hideout in Bukar Maryam and Abaganaram.
The Nigerian Army, in the evening of Thursday, April 26, released a warning to residents of Maiuguri in Borno state asking them not to panic but remain in their houses as tension spread between soldiers and Boko Haram invaders.
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