Nigeria: VP Shettima offers 50 trucks of rice to Maiduguri residents — Africa Links 24

Vice President Kashim Shettima visited Maiduguri on Tuesday to sympathise with the people of Borno over the Alau Dam flood disaster that displaced thousands of people.

Mr Shettima who led a Federal Government delegation to the beleaguered city, was received on arrival by Gov. Babagana Zulum, who took him to the palace of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, that was also hit by the flood.

From the palace, the vice president drove to Bakassi camp where thousands of those…