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...
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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...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has once more lambasted the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum over his alleged pampering of repentant Islamic terrorists in the state rather than concentrating on delivering social justice for the victims of terrorism. HURIWA said the constant focus in the media on...
Borno State Governkr, Babagana Zulum has urged presidential aspirants for the 2023 election to always consider the unity and peace of Nigeria as the paramount in their aspirations. Zulum made the call on Monday in Maiduguri when he received the presidential aspirant of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Gov. Nyesome...
Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, says the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration has been delivering infrastructural projects in spite of meagre resources. He said this at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Pre-Convention Policy Conference on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, alongside Senator Kashim Shettima, Borno’s First Lady, Dr. Falmata Zulum, and other National Assembly members topped the state’s high profile delegation at the fifth anniversary of the North-East Children’s Trust, (NECT) Learning Centre, initiated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday gave a total sum of N62,750,000 to 846 elders and labourers providing services at Bolori Stores, a popular area in Maiduguri where trailers offload and move variety of wholesale food and non-food products from Borno to other...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned a newly built three-floor edifice in Maiduguri, tagged Borno Investment House, which is owned by Borno Investment Company Limited. Before now, the company operated in a rented building since it commenced operation in April 1987, making 35...
The Borno Government says more insurgents are laying down their arms because authorities adopted a non-kinetic warfare. The Special Adviser to Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, retired Brig.-Gen. Abdullahi Ishaq, made this known in Maiduguri while speaking on the Borno Model in ending the insurgency through non kinetic approach...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, chaired the inaugural meeting of a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East, which was recently constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate safe return of displaced Nigerians mostly from...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – For the fourth time, Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Sunday, undertook a humanitarian assessment of Malam-Fatori, headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area in northern Borno on the fringes of the Lake Chad. Zulum had visited Malam-Fatori in February 2020, July 2021 and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has commended Governor Babagana Zulum for his numerous supports to doctors and other medical personnel in the state. The NMA’s Chairman in Borno State, Dr Ali Mohammed Ramat, gave the commendation in a letter...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo was in Maiduguri on Thursday, to launch the 30th edition of the Federal Government’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic during which he commissioned four out of over 500 projects executed by Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – At least six hundred clergies, amongst them 20 Archbishops, 144 Bishops, and hundreds of reverends converged in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) honoured Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, with a “prestigious award for courageous and purposeful leadership in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday, met with the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria on a follow-up visit to his initial trip to Egypt on education partnership. The follow-up visit by the governor was to strengthen his initial visit to Egypt early November,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Nigeria has more than 180 million inhabitants, making it the most populous country in Africa. It is also one of the poorest. Poverty, food insecurity and inadequate access to education and health care are particularly severe in the North-East. The activities of the terrorist...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Members of the Governing Council, Federal Polytechnic, Monguno were in Maiduguri on Wednesday to convey profound gratitude to the Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum, for supporting the polytechnic with N100m take off grant which consist of operational cost and provision of temporary...
Assures doctors of improved salaries By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, alongside Senator Kashim Shettima were in the border town of Gamboru in Ngala Local Government Area, undertaking humanitarian responses, from Sunday to Tuesday. The leaders supervised and also got directly involved in the distribution...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has called for an end to the recruitment and use of children by armed groups in Nigeria, and the release of those in the custody of such groups. They also called for support for former child soldiers in north-east Nigeria. A statement issued...