By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
The National Union of Borno State Students (NUBOSS) has commended Governor Babagana Zulum for his exemplary leadership and management of human and materials resources in the past three years, particularly his commitment in the implementation of educational projects and payments of students scholarships both home and abroad.
The union also appreciated the role and concerns of the State Commissioner of Higher Education, Professor Mustapha Malumbe and the Executive Secretary, Borno State Scholarships Board (BSSB), Malam Bala Isa in the reconciliation processes of the lingering three years leadership tussles and disputes that rocked the affairs of the union.
Speaking during a press conference in Maiduguri, The Interim Caretaker Committee Chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Maidoki said the disputes have exposed the students to severe hardships and sufferings both socially, economically and academically.
Maidoki however commended Governor Zulum for redoubling Borno Indigene students Scholarship allowances for both local and international students, provision of breakfast to school pupils, construction of new mega schools, among others.
He also appealed to all indigene students to eschew bitterness and embrace one another for the collective interest and progress of the students union.
Maidoki assured a hitch free and fair election within two or three weeks as the 5-man Interim Caretaker Committee headed by Abdullahi Maidoki with Ibrahim Kaka Sheriff as Secretary has concluded discussions and plans have reached an advanced stage to release the election time table for the forthcoming union election which all students will participate to elect new executive members that will run the affairs of the union.
The chairman further added that all the branches across the country and even abroad are intact and operational and well recognized in identifying with the leadership qualities and mediation pattern of the executive secretary of the board which he said were worthy of emulation.
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