By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has conveyed his deepest gratitude to the people of Borno, over the impressive turn out to receive President Muhammadu Buhari and the overwhelming support for his administration. Governor Zulum expressed this while speaking to a group of stakeholders after...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Maiduguri, Borno State, said more cooperation among elites in the country, with a commitment to inform people on realities and mobilize for development will help in resolving the challenges facing the nation. In a courtesy call at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his untiring concern and support to the people of Borno, just as he had visited the state twice in 6 months to commission developmental projects President Buhari had on Thursday paid a one...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Maiduguri as part of a one-day official visit to Borno. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential jet on Thursday landed at the Nigerian Air Force wing of the Maiduguri International Airport at about 11.45 a.m. The president was received...
Security has been beefed up in Maiduguri and environs as President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to visit the town. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President would inaugurate viable projects executed by Gov. Babagana Zulum’s administration during the visit to the state. These include the Custom...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has sent a delegation to Kilangar community of Chan-Chan Dana district of Askira Uba LGA to condole with the victims of Boko Haram attack in the area. The delegation led by the Borno State Deputy Speaker and member representing...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved one month salary bonus for thousands of volunteers fighting Boko Haram to groups that include the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and hunters as end of the year gifts. The Governor included sanitation staff who are involved...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari was on Saturday represented by Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum at Niger Republic’s 63rd Independence Day celebration. The Presidential celebration event took place in Diffa town of Diffa province with President of Niger Republic, Muhammad Bazoum leading the National celebrations....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – At the end of their sixth meeting held in Damaturu, Yobe State, the Northeast Governors Forum on Tuesday night, issued a five-point communique, mostly bothering on security and power supply. The communique was signed by the forum’s chairman and Governor of Borno State, Professor...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the globe marks the World Human Rights Day, the Executive Director, Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development, Hajiya Hamsatu Allamin has called on Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State to be more committed, responsive and proactive to the support and assistance of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – in his tireless efforts to curtail the transportation difficulty faced by citizens in Borno State, Governor Babagana Zulum has directed the Commissioner for Transport, Hon Abubakar Tijani Banki to make proper arrangements for immediate delivery of tricycles and buses in Maiduguri metropolis and its...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday night visited soldiers injured during a fierce battle, on Friday, between troops and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists at Rann, a border town between Nigeria and Cameroon, in Kala Balge LGA of the state....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has visited the 1,000 Units Housing Estate in Maiduguri which was hit on Saturday morning by a rocket launcher believed to have been fired by Boko Haram/ISWAP terror groups. Governor Zulum said he has set up “a small committee”...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the allocation of land for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB’s) Computer-Based Test (CBT) center in Maiduguri. Govenro Zulum gave the directive on Thursday, when he received the registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has explained that his occasional firing and suspension of erring government officials do not make him happy, as they even create political enemies for him. However, the governor said he took such measures to make government officials dedicate...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday launched a mega-size empowerment package for thousands of constituents in Konduga town. The empowerment was sponsored by a member of House of Representatives representing Dikwa, Konduga and Mafa Federal Constituency, Engr. Mohammed Ibrahim Abubakar, popularly known...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has said that around the world, one out of six children live in extreme poverty or less than US$ 1.9 per day and their families struggle to afford the basic health care and nutrition needed to provide them a strong start in life....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has announced an initiative titled “Borno Heroes Support Programme” for the award of educational scholarship to 500 orphans and their widowed mothers left behind by members of the Civilian JTF, hunters and vigilantes who died during battles with Boko Haram...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Dr. Mohammed Abubakar has commissioned roads, drainages network as well as solar energy street light projects in Maiduguri city, the Borno State’s capital. The minister, who was epresented by the North East Zonal Director of FMARD,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – On his fourth day in Southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum in Shani has distributed farming tools to 1,750 farmers from three Local Government Areas of Bayo, Shani and Hawul. 1,000 farmers from Bayo, 500 from Hawul and 250 from Shani benefited from the intervention....