By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has addressed participants at the third edition of Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development which held on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. The Aswan Forum was launched in February 2019 by the Egyptian Government “in its capacity as...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned acute respiratory therapist treatment plant at the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri. The state Governor said the oxygen plants and solar direct drive refrigerators can go along way in complementing the efforts of the Borno State in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has began the presentation of mini buses to private individuals and corporate organisations to enhance entrepreneurial development and empowerment in the state. The mini buses are to be converted into an electric/solar powered vehicle with full support of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command has paraded no fewer than 154 suspects that were arrested for various crimes in the state. Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abdul Umar while briefing journalist on Wednesday at the Command Headquarters Maiduguri said the joint operational...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has forwarded a list of new State Commissioner nominees to The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly, Alhaji.Abdulkarim Lawan for confirmation. This is according to an official letter dated 14th May, 2022, which was issued by the governor to...
No fewer than 55 scrap metal collectors lost their lives in series of attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in the last three weeks in Borno. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdu Umar made this known while speaking on the sideline of a security stakeholders’ meeting on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has decorated his Aide de Camp (ADC) Ashigar Baba Kulubu, with the new rank of Deputy Superintendant of Police. The governor, who was assisted by Borno State Police Commissioner, Abdu Umar, described the ADC as a dedicated officer....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his emergence as presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Zulum in a statement issued on Thursday also congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari, national leaders and all stakeholders of the APC, for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu was on Wednesday led by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on a tour of 3,000-hectare rice farm in Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar Local Government Area.of Borno State. The mega farm is one of Zulum’s ongoing programmes in agriculture. The location...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has on Saturday, thanked delegates and party stakeholders following the victory of Senator Kashim Shettima at the primaries for Borno Central Senatorial election. Shettima won unopposed with 479 votes cast by delegates at an election that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has condoled with the families of victims of attack coordinated by Boko Haram/Islamic State of the West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists at Mudu village in Kala Balge LGA of the state. Zulum’s condolence message was contained in a statement...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Monday stormed Maiduguri city with his campaign team from Damaturu, Yobe State capital for a consultative meeting with the national delegates of All Progressive Congress (APC) from Borno state. On his arrival, the vice president went straight to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The APC National Leader and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Borno that if he is elected as the next President of Nigeria come 2023, he will exploit all the state’s natural endowment especially oil exploration and resuscitation of the Lake...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – One of the leading presidential aspirants of the APC, Chief Rotimi Amaechi has advised Borno State delegates to vote for their conscience in the forthcoming party primaries. Chief Amaechi also urged the delegates to ensure that they vote a credible and tested candidate who...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum alongside the immediate past givernor, Senator Kashim Shettima Modu have been screened successfully by the APC Screening Committee as aspirants in the forthcoming party primaries for governorship and senatorial positions. Zulum, who is contesting election for the second term...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the dissolution of the State Executive Council (SEC) for the first time since he assumed office three years ago The dissolution, which is with immediate effect, was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Administration...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has called on The United Nations (UN) to advocate for the recharging of Lake Chad Basin for human activities as there is much potentials in the region to bring back livelihood support of the residents. Governor Zulum also appealed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Members of the Borno State Executive Council (SEC) and Special Advisers to Governor Babagana Zulum, who are contesting various elective positions in the forthcoming general election and byelection have formally tendered their resignation letters to the state governor in compliance with the new electoral...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Boko Haram insurgents activities have consistently impacted on socio economic and political activities of Borno state for over a decade with attendant killings of hundreds of thousands of people both young and old, male and female apart from the wanton destruction of public and...
A total of 150 social clubs, associations and professional bodies in Borno are combining to pay the N50 million needed to buy nomination forms for Gov. Babagana Zulum. The clubs and associations are seeking Gov. Zulum’s re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The coalition made...