Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said that he would approach the appropriate government agencies to request for undercover female policemen in order to unravel the allegations of sexual abuse by government officials working in the various Internally Displace Persons, IDP, camps in the state.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Ibrahim, has said that the continued recession of the Lake Chad poses a lot of threats to the West and Central African Sub-regions, adding that about 40 million youth in the region have been exposed to poverty and unemployment as a result of the development.
Wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, on Thursday coordinated the distribution of relief materials to more than 300 households in Beneisheikh, a liberated community in Baga local government area of Borno State.
The Borno State Government has raised alarm over the increasing rate of drug abuse among the citizens of the state, especially in the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps, as well as in communities liberated from Boko Haram control.
Borno State Government said it is set to discharge more than 2000 children who are being treated for severe acute malnutrition at the Borno State Nursery Village.