Mr Tar said street begging and aimless loitering were not part of the culture of the Borno people.
“But the truth is that Borno has been peaceful. Of course, we are still in the insurgency; it hasn’t stopped.
The couple had some domestic disputes over an alleged extra marital affair by the husband before the wife’s murder.
The beneficiaries comprised 15,000 male heads of households, each receiving a 25kg bag of rice and 10kg bag of beans, and 25,000 females receiving N5,000 cash and a wrapper each.
The managing director said similar gestures had been extended to many regional hospitals.
The training was conducted to strengthen over 1,000 community WASH committees in rural areas of the state.
Due to the fragile security situation, the Borno government has banned all mining activities in the state.
The International Community of Red Cross has provided 10,000 mental health and psychosocial support services to 10,000 traumatised victims in Borno in eight years.
NAF said Monday it killed several Boko Haram/Islamic States of West Africa Province terrorists in airstrikes in the Tumbuns on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno.
Mr Abbas said the decision was reached after a series of meetings and deliberations by the leadership and members of the organisation.
