Tag: Cameroon

January 3, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of 70 people in Zaroumdareye, a border town between Niger Republic and Mali ...

Gov. Zulum meets school principals ahead of resumption

Zulum seeks NEMA’s food assistance for 800,000 IDPs in Borno

January 1, 2021

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has appealed for urgent intervention by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on the plight ...

My administration purchased 23 fighter jets since 2015 – Buhari

December 24, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has purchased 23 new aircrafts for the Nigerian Air Force since its inception in ...

BREAKING: Masari briefs Buhari, says ‘abductors of schoolboys contacted us’

We’ll keep confronting insurgency, other criminality – Buhari

December 24, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration remains unyielding in confronting the Boko Haram insurgency as well as other forms of ...

Zulum begs Buhari to assist 200,000 refugees return to Nigeria

December 11, 2020

The Governor of Borno, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has pleaded with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to help about 200,000 ...

In this photo taken on women and children queuing to enter one of the UNICEF nutrition clinics at the Muna makeshift camp which houses more than 16,000 IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS

Refugees commission enrolls IDPs, refugees into NHIS

December 11, 2020

The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, says it has enrolled refugees into the National Health ...

Zabarmari: Killed Borno rice farmers didn’t get military clearance – Presidency

Boko Haram: Shekau faction claims responsibility for Zabarmari massacre

December 2, 2020

The Boko Haram jihadist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a brutal massacre of farmworkers in Borno State over the ...

FIFA releases names of African referees, assistant referees to feature Women’s World Cup 2023

November 20, 2020

Nineteen female referees from Africa have been selected to participate in the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023, to be ...

5,130 inmates awaiting trial in Lagos – Report

Hundreds of inmates infected as COVID-19 crept into Cameroon’s crowded prison cells

July 9, 2020

On the morning of April 24, Fritz Takang became so breathless he could barely walk across the cramped cell he ...

World Bank releases $82m to support Nigeria’s response to COVID-19

World Bank approves $346m fund for projects in Nigeria, others

May 27, 2020

The World Bank has approved $346m for two projects aimed at strengthening resilience and livelihoods in the Lake Chad region.

Minister tests positive for coronavirus in Italy

Cameroon confirms first case of coronavirus

March 6, 2020

Cameroon’s health ministry on Friday confirmed the country’s first case of coronavirus, a 58-year-old French citizen who arrived in the ...

90,752 children get vaccinated against measles, meningitis in Jigawa LG

Nigeria will achieve polio-free status in 2020 – Shuaib

December 10, 2019

Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will be declared ...

We’re now tackling insecurity with superior strategy, firepower – Buhari

Cultivate neighbourliness to enhance our democracy, Buhari tells Nigerians

July 12, 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari says “cultivating neighbourliness’’ on individual and national level will deepen the values of democracy and speed up ...

Gudumbali attack: Survivors recount Boko Haram’s deadly onslaught

Boko Haram kills 14 loggers in Borno

February 20, 2019

At least 14 people were killed when Boko Haram jihadists attacked loggers in northeastern Nigeria, members of a militia force ...

Boko Haram: At least, 30,000 Nigerians currently displaced – UN

by Maryam Hassan

January 29, 2019

Escalating attacks by Boko Haram militants have forced 30,000 people out of Nigeria's northeast into Cameroonian borders over the weekend, ...

Gov. Yari directs IDPs to return home, says security adequate in Zamfara

Nigerian govt to begin repatriation of refugees from Cameroon

January 28, 2019

The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCRFIM, said on Monday that the agency had almost concluded ...

32,000 Cameroonians seeking refuge in Nigeria – UN

January 25, 2019

The UN has said that no fewer than 32,000 Cameroonians fleeing insecurity and violence are currently taking refuge in Nigeria. ...

Nigerian govt employs 110 workers to monitor nation’s water resources

January 14, 2019

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency says the agency has employed 110 workers to execute its mandate aimed at monitoring and ...

2019: Vote for Buhari, Izala movement directs members

January 12, 2019

A major Islamic group, the Jama’atul Izalatul Bidi’a Waikamatus Sunnah, JIBWIS, one of the largest Islamic societies in Nigeria, Chad, ...

Boko Haram: Buhari, Deby, Issoufou vow fight to finish