[1] On May 7, 2012, Nuriye was appointed mayor in the central Somalia town of Beledweyne's first municipal elections since the start of the civil war in the early 1990s.
200 delegates took part in the contest, which was overseen by the Hiran region's head of elections, Sadaq Omar Sabriye.
[2] In his first day in office, Mayor Nuriye officially banned firearms within the city limits.
[3] To further tighten up on security, the Beledweyne Municipality over a three-day period started simultaneously registering all local residents.
[3] On July 18, 2012, his administration imposed a two-day night-time curfew in Beledweyne, while government soldiers demolished structures that had been illegally erected along the area's main road in one of the Municipality's first urban renewal initiatives.