Borno Farmers Ready for Rice Pyramid Farmers in Borno have announced plans to unveil rice pyramid sequel to the bumper harvest recorded this cropping season. They made the announcement on Monday in Maiduguri Economic Confidential recalls that about 18, 000 farmers were supported by the Central Bank...

NAFDAC seals 24 unlicensed bakeries  The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it had sealed 24 bakeries in Maiduguri for operating without licences. The Coordinator of the agency in Borno, Mr Nasiru Mato, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. Mato...

Boko Haram: Open Letter to Borno People By Yushau A. Shuaib “Fear a tumult which will affect those who caused it as well as the innocent ones…” Quran Chapter Anfal 8:25 I have deliberately quoted the above verse from the Quran, the Holy Book of Islam since the...

Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has flagged off the distribution of foods and household utensils to returnees from Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps to fast track their resettlement in their communities. Mrs Buhari who was accompanied by the wives of the Chief of...

… Lagos Generates More IGR than 32 States Combined … Rich States: Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Ogun, Edo …Poor States:  Yobe, Zamfara, Ekiti, Borno, Kebbi An investigation by the Economic Confidential has shown that Fifteen States may go bankrupt as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2015 were...

A report unveiled by the United Nations Development Programme in partnership with Oxfam Nigeria revealed that 46 per cent of households in Nigeria’s North-East borrow money to eat, while 61 per cent of residents in the region lack access to portable water. The North-East of...