Ndahi Marama

Oct 10, 2024 | allafrica.com | Ndahi Marama

·Dismisses reports of Boko Haram attack on his convoyFormer chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Mohammed Ndume, yesterday, insisted that the Nigerian military is ill-equipped and lacks the wherewithal to end Boko Haram or banditry. This came as he dismissed reports circulating on social media that his convoy was ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists.

Sep 26, 2024 | newsheadlines.com.ng | Wole Mosadomi |Ndahi Marama

By Wole Mosadomi, Ndahi Marama, Umar Yusuf &Bashir BelloSINCE floods started wreaking havoc in northern states in August, no fewer than 141 lives have been lost in Kano, Niger, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. Kano State topped the chart with 49 deaths, followed by Yobe, 43; Borno, 26; Adamawa,12; and Niger 11.

Sep 19, 2024 | newsheadlines.com.ng | Demola Akinyemi |Ndahi Marama

•Zulum summons UN workers, others for better coordination•Warns against indiscriminate opening of IDP camps•As flood sacks Kwara communityBy Demola Akinyemi & Ndahi MaramaMaiduguri—Residents of Maiduguri, Borno State, have raised the alarm over the high cost of canoe rides, lamenting that operators were now ripping them off. Recall that when floods swept through the city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move residents to safety.

Sep 19, 2024 | newsheadlines.com.ng | Henry Umoru |Ndahi Marama |Gabriel Ewepu |James Ogunnaike

•FG deploys team to deal with aftermath•First Lady donates N500m to victims•Obasanjo tasks Zulum on courageous leadershipBy Henry Umoru, Ndahi Marama, Gabriel Ewepu, James Ogunnaike & Favour UleborABUJA—No fewer than 150,000 children are in 26 Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps in Maiduguri, Borno State, with many disconnected from their families, following last week’s devastating flood that ravaged the state, Save the Children, SCI, Nigeria, has said.

Sep 14, 2024 | newsheadlines.com.ng | Ndahi Marama |Gabriel Ewepu

•Hunger pushes non-victims into IDP camps for food palliatives •Civilian JTF rape women, take our food—Victim •River overflow cause of flooding—–FG By Ndahi Marama & Gabriel Ewepu In their moments of distress and agony, displaced victims of the flood that caused devastation in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, who were being sheltered in Bakkasi Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, Camp, cried out yesterday that their women were being raped by members of the Civilian Joint Task Force, JTF, who...