By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has declared open a 3-week At Risks Children Programme (ARC-P), which is a training programme for 968 youths facilitators selected from the 27 LGAs of the state. Declaring open the training programme in Maiduguri, Zulum said the programme...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has disbursed over N225 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and residents of Gamboru, Ngala and Wulgo host community and border towns of Ngala LGA in the northern part of the state . He also distributed wrappers to over...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday released a grant worth N814m to a combined number of 9,154 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), to stimulate local businesses. The Governor gave the grant at the launch of the “Borno COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reaffirmed his government ’s determination and commitment as well electioneering campaign promises to the people of Borno to improve on the availability, standard and quality of healthcare delivery services and its facilities across the 27 LGCs in the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered a review of primary school teachers’ verification exercise conducted in December 2020, which found 7,794 ghost teachers among 22,556 ghost workers across the 27 LGAs of the state. Zulum had set up a Primary School Teachers Verification...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has awarded N300 million scholarships to 300 orphans of Slain CJTF, hunters and vigilante groups fighting counter-insurgency in the state. Governor Zulum in his address on Tuesday in Maiduguri, also announced the increase of the monthly allowance for the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Monday approved the payment of outstanding leave grants and gratuities for Local Government workers in the state The State Commissioner for Local Government and Emirates Affairs, Hon Sugun Mai Meleh disclosed this at a press briefing with newsmen...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, on Saturday in Mafa Town of Borno State commissioned a combined number of 804 houses for the resettlement of internally displaced members of the Ngarannam community and its neighboring villages. Although the housing estate project...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered the integration of vocational skills in over 2,775 Quranic or Almajiri Tsangaya schools/centres widely known in the northern part of Nigeria as Almajiri schools and 451 Islamiyyah schools across the state. Governor Zulum gave the order on...
No fewer than 11 political parties have fielded candidates for the 2023 governorship election in Borno. The lists of the candidates is contained in a document released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Maiduguri. INEC’s Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP) in the state, Malam...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has allocated the 24 furnished houses his administration built and was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day recently in Maiduguri located at Bulumkutu Abuja area of Maiduguri metropolis. It will be recalled that the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali for his efforts, sacrifices and doggedness in providing security to lives and property of the citizenry of the state. He also assured the Nigerian Police that his...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has approved an extension of teachers retirement age from 60 to 65 years in the state. The governor announced the upward review on Wednesday in Maiduguri, to commemorate the 2022 edition of World Teachers Day. Borno State Commissioner for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has said the state government will commence payment of outstanding arrears of promotional benefits to state civil servants by the end of January 2023 The governor revealed this during the swearing in ceremony of the new Chairman and board...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Special Adviser to the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monitoring and Evaluation, Engr Ibrahim Idris Garba on Saturday inspected the ongoing construction of 2.9 kilometers road and drainage around College of Education, Waka Biu in Biu LGA of the state. The project...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has addressed multinational groups in New York, United States of America, towards increasing focus on the education of girls in Nigeria and around the world. The Governor traveled to the US as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s delegation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the appointment of Baba Bura Usman as Borno State’s new Accountant General. The appointment was announced by the Governor’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued on Wednesday night. Baba Bura Usman was, until his appointment,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Wednesday in Biu town, commissioned a 60-classroom community school for higher Islamic studies, built and donated by the state government. Zulum arrived Biu town on Tuesday and passed the night, before today’s commissioning of the higher Islamic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday commissioned Government Day Secondary School Buratai in Buratai Community of Biu LGA, as part of government efforts to enhance quality and standard of education in the state. The governor was received on arrival in Buratai by the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has approved the release of N10m and a house to the bereaved family of Babagana Mallam Tela famously called Kadau who was the overall commander of the ‘Civilian JTF’ in Bama LGA, before he was killed by Boko...