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	Nigeria: BORNO STATE - Borno State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Borno, in the 19th century, was very extensive and the region around Lake Chad was the ecumene of the Empire (Brenner, 1973).
		In 1902 the British reinstated Urnar, the son of EIKanemi, as the Shehu of Borno.
		Borno became a province in 1907 and was part of Northern Nigeria until 1967 when the Northeastern State was created, with Maiduguri as the capital.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/bornoadv.asp?blurb=218 (1068 words)

	Ethnologue report for Nigeria
		Niger State, Kontagora LGA; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Rafi, and Mariga LGAs; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Suleija, Agaie, Rafi, and Lapai LGAs; Nasarawa State, Nasarawa LGA.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Nigeria (6114 words)

	Nigeria ---->>> Borno State
		Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria.
		Borno State occupies the greater part of the Chad Basin and is located in the North-Eastern corner of Nigeria.
		Borno was occupied and diviced between Britain and Germany; thus the origin of the two Borno Emirates i.e.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/borno.htm (624 words)

	Arewa Online. All you need about Nigeria.
		Borno state, known as the 'Home of Peace' to Nigerians, is located in the Chad Basin in the north east of Nigeria and shares boundaries with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
		It is one of the oldest in the Nigerian federation and its political centre, Maiduguri, has served as capital for the old North Eastern State as well as for the current entity.
		Inside of Nigeria's frontiers, Borno borders with Adamawa to the south, Yobe to be the west and Bauchi to the south-west.
	www.amanaonline.com /States/Borno_State.htm (148 words)

	Welcome to Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Borno state is located in the North-east of Nigeria within latitude 11Â°N and longitude 13Â°E. It is bounded in the north by the Republic of Niger and Chad to the north-east and Cameroon to the east.
		The Sahel type in the North which is where most of the wheat in the state is produced and the Sudan Savannah type in the south which consists of shrubby vegetation interspersed with tall trees woodland.
		Institutions in the State are the University of Maiduguri, Ramat Polytechnic, Borno College of Education, Borno College of Science and Technology, Borno College of Legal and Islamic Studies (BOCOLIS) and College of Agriculture.
	www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_borno.aspx (687 words)

	NIGERIAN TRIBUNE - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The GTZ has been in Borno for about four years and we worked with National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) and now we are working with ninety Non-Governmental Organisations in Borno State in various areas of development, which include HIV/AIDS, access to justice for women and the under privileged and political empowerment for women.
		The first contact GTZ had with Borno State was within the framework of the United Nations and GTZ project on strengthening judicial integrity and capacity in 3 pilot states of the federation.
		The states are Borno, Lagos and Delta States.
	www.tribune.com.ng /13112006/politics.html (1191 words)

	Borno State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		NG-BO Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria.
		The state was formed in 1976 by the split of the North-Eastern State.
		After Nigerian independence in 1960, Borno remained fairly autonomous until the expansion of the number of states in Nigeria to 12 in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borno_State (246 words)

	Talibans strike again in Borno, Nigeria
		OLICE Area Commander for Bama in Borno State, an assistant commissioner of police (names withheld), three other cops and a civilian were among persons killed by the dreaded Islamic fanatical sect, better known as the Talibans, who surprisingly attacked two police stations in Borno State Monday night.
		Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Adamu Dibal, as well as the State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
		Meanwhile, the Borno State government has condemned the attack on the police formations and appealed to the people to always volunteer useful information to security personnel for necessary pre-emptive action.
	www.nigeriamasterweb.com /TalibanStrikesAgain.html (441 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		Borno State's worsening problem a erosion and flooding will soon be over.
		Ali Modu Sheriff, governor of Borno State has launched a massiveattack on the problem to ensure that it is solved for good.
		To this end, the state government has awarded six major contracts to two Kano-based Chinese firms to permanently check the menace of erosion and flooding in the State.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10801134421.htm (532 words)

	Can Ali Sheriff Break The Continuity Jinx
		The political climate in Borno State is saturated with healthy and unhealthy rivalries among the different political parties in the State.
		Road were constructed in the hearts and outskirt of the state capital, water which has been a problematic area in the state has been taken care of to further endear the administration to people of the state.
		The state has recently experienced some political assassination attempts that suggested unhealthy rivalry in the state polity, first was the attack on Maiduguri Metropolitan Council Chairman Alhaji Baba Kura Shettima who defended himself in a shoot-out with the assassins at his residence.
	www.gamji.com /article6000/NEWS6428.htm (1095 words)

	Borno becomes seventh Nigerian state to adopt Sharia
		Police in the state capital of Maiduguri stood guard as the move became official Saturday, fearing a possible backlash from non-Muslims.
		Seeking to reassure Christians who say that their freedoms are threatened, Borno state governor Mala Kachalla has stated that Sharia applies only to Muslims.
		Borno's decision, however, defies an agreement to suspend implementation of Sharia.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/newsroom-borno.html (260 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : The millennium: A harbinger of doom
		This is a weekly publication that had enjoyed tremendous patronage from Borno State government, but when the paper started deviating from the ethics of journalism, people began to distance themselves from it.
		On her part as the first lady of the state, visit to motherless Babies Homes, VVF wards, party for children, commissioning of computer centres, health care centres, distribution of soft loan to women and presentation of gifts to the less privileged were undertaken.
		A committee set up by the state government to ensure successful distribution pattern of the soft loans was chaired by the commissioner, women affairs and social development, Hajiya Maryam Bukar Petrol with twelve members from various organizations and NGOs.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp916072006.html (1098 words)

	Welcome to Borno, Nigeria - The Home of Peace!
		The fifth Executive Governor of Borno State Sen. (Dr.) Ali Modu Sheriff, was born in Ngala Town, Ngala Local Government Area in 1956 to the amiable and respected business tycoon Galadima Modu Sheriff and Hajiya Aisa Modu.
		A brief on the State is all that is required to make a visitor to Borno State feel at home.
		The basin which stretches from the Tibesti Mountain in the north, the Mandara Mountains in the South, from the ancient town of Air in the West to the Ennedi in the east has an area of open water which had once covered its wider parts.
	www.bornonigeria.com (493 words)

	Weekly Trust: The Paper Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, unconfirmed sources say the PDP leadership in Borno State has denied Kumalia the waiver to stand for election, having not spent up to two years in the party, as its guidelines for election provide.
		The new entrants boosted PDP’s fortunes in Borno State but the reality was that they also added a new chapter to the complex tapestry of real politik in the party, in which the main concern in praxis was the accumulation of political influence for the purpose of elective representation.
		According to Kolo Bukar, the party in the state conducted all the elections according to the guidelines given to it by the national secretariat, maintaining that those who emerged as delegates were solely chosen by the people.
	www.dailytrust.com /weekly/cover7.htm (1263 words)

	The Washington Times - Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The state has two major vegetation zones: the Sahel, where most of the wheat in the state is produced, and the Sudan savanna in the south, where tall trees and woodlands are interspersed with shrubby vegetation.
		Borno is the only state in the federation that borders three states: Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
		Borno’s roads constantly teem with trucks on their way to the sub-region, and Kachallah is eager to see them stop in Maiduguri.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /africa/99/nigeria/51.html (1114 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yobe state was carved out of the present Borno State and is bounded by Borno, Gombe, Jigawa States including the Niger Republic to the north.
		The State lies mainly within the dry savannah belt and is therefore mostly hot and dry for the most part of the year except in the southern fringes where the climate is a bit mild.
		It is a cardinal policy of the state government to provide the inputs which would encourged the exportation of the rich agricultural resources of the State.
	www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_yobe.aspx (449 words)

	Borno SIEC
		The Vision of BOSIEC is that of a dynamic and formidable Organization capable of ensuring the continuation and furtherance of democracy in Borno State.
		There is hereby established for the State a body to be known as the Borno State Independent Electoral Commission which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession of the and a common seal and can sue and be sued in its corporate name
		Subject to the provisions of this Law, the Commission shall pay its staff such salaries, allowances, pensions and gratuities on such terms and conditions as obtained in the public service of the State or as may be approved by the State House of Assembly.
	www.fosiecon.org /borno/index.html (2286 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Day Borno's Blind Met to Reflect Their Condition (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The chairman of the blind, called Sarkin Makafi, in Borno State, Mai Bukar Abacha, for instance, said his members do not find begging, which is their chief means of livelihood, as a job they would want to do except that they, for the most part, do not have alternatives.
		The chairman of the blind therefore called on the Borno State government to consider the blind in its ongoing poverty alleviation programme which seek to train the unemployed in craftsmanship and skills acquisition.
		The Sarkin Makafin Borno also appealed to the state government to as a mark of encouragement to their members to exempt their children from the payment of school fees which according to him "will take them off the streets".
	allafrica.com /stories/200611290914.html (993 words)

	Nigeria ---->>> Gombe State
		Gombe is a state in north-eastern Nigeria, with its capital at Gombe.
		Gombe State, called the 'Jewel in the Savannah', was formed in October 1996 from part of the old Bauchi State by the Abacha military government.
		Gombe State shares boundaries with Yobe State to the North, Adamawa and Taraba States to the South, Borno State to the East, and Bauchi State to the West.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/gombe.htm (322 words)

	Islamic militants launch fresh attacks on police stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The group, whose name means "Followers of the Prophet" in Arabic, first came to public notice in December 2003 when it launched a series of attacks on remote towns in neighbouring Yobe state and went on to attack the state capital Damaturu.
		Borno State spokesman Adamu Jiri said local vigilantes had joined the police in battling against the militants, forcing them to retreat into hills near the Cameroon border.
		The country's 126 million population is roughly split between a mainly Muslim north and a predominantly Christian south with a significant number of Animists in between.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=43310 (722 words)

	Christians Attacked in Borno, Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DAMBOA, Nigeria (Compass) -- A Christian-Muslim conflict in Damboa in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state resulted in the deaths of 15 Christians, and four churches were burned.
		Chairman of Damboa Local Government Council, Alhaji Lawal Kabu, a Muslim, accused Pastor Olusesan Caleb of Living Faith Church, one of the four burned churches, of instigating the crisis because of his refusal to move the church.
		Borno Governor Alhaji Malla Kachallah, a Muslim, described the crisis as a "dastardly act perpetrated by group of hoodlums and hooligans who must have motives other than religion."
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-borno.html (342 words)

	NIGERIAN TRIBUNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since its creation 30years ago, Borno State has witnessed the reigns of many administrators, both military and civilian, who contributed immensely to the growth and development of the state.
		The situation is worsened by the belief in many quarters that as the year 2007 approaches, Borno would have been a worse state to be seen after the elections, a situation which political analysts said spelt doom on the state.
		While observing that, historically, Borno State had not experienced serious political upheavals, as politics of the past was played based on issues and ideas, the Professor said,” It is in view of the relative peace and stability in the state that the appellation ‘Home of Peace’ was given to Borno State.”
	www.tribune.com.ng /19102006/politics_2.html (907 words)

	Politics of Power Shift and the Future of Nigerian Masses
		To start with, Borno state, then referred to as Maiduguri was the capital of the then North-Eastern State way back in 1967 when the administration of General Yakubu Gowon created 12 states from the then existing 4 regions.
		Of course, there are a number of intellectuals/professors of Borno State indigene who have distinguished themselves in their chosen fields across the country and the world over.
		For the next Executive Governor of the state must be well educated, vocal and outspoken, and talented against the current “six-month diploma” holder led government that has no vision for the people and government of Borno State.
	www.gamji.com /article6000/NEWS6535.htm (3333 words)

	News -- 2007 Presidential campaign: Duke stoned in Maiduguri, Senator indicts Sheriff
		Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff and the Borno State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed have been fingered as people behind the reported clash between PDP and ANPP supporters in Maiduguri which resulted in the attack on the convoy of Governor Donald Duke during his campaign tour.
		In a chat with Saturday Sun, Senator Abba Aji representing Borno Central Senatorial District alleged that Governor Sheriff’s governmnt and the State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Mohammed conspired to execute the incident.
		The lawmaker justified his accusation by pointing out that a day earlier, Governor Peter Odili who like Duke came on presidential campaigns tour was received peacefully in Maiduguri in the absence of Sheriff, but during Duke's visit, when Sheriff was in town, ANPP thugs were unleashed on the PDP.
	odili.net /news/source/2006/nov/18/808.html (298 words)

	CGIAR: Newsroom: News Releases
		The success of the project's positive intervention on the lives of people in the State is noticeable in their new patterns of life.
		After three years of intervention, the project is succeeding in reducing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in the State.
		Its broad objectives are: (i) to arrest environmental and resource degradation; (ii) to promote diversification of land use systems and processing of food crops; (iii) to increase agricultural productivity and incomes of male and female farmers and (iv) to enhance the capacity of male and female farmers, communities and other stakeholders.
	www.cgiar.org /Newsroom/releases/news.asp?idnews=486 (843 words)

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