BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Governing Board of the National Defence College (NDC) has honoured the Executive Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, with the Excellence and Service to the Nation award. The NDC’s Governing board comprises the Honourable Minister of Defence as chairman, the Chief...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the release of N200m to support about 150 medical doctors to attend a residency programme and obtain a broad range of medical knowledge, basic clinical skills, and supervised experience practising medicine in various fields. Governor Zulum,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has supervised the distribution of the federal government’s donated food relief to over 10,000 families in Mafa local government area. The distribution took place on Tuesday in four centres at Mafa town, the headquarters of the local government...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has disbursed over N209.8 million to about 170 primary healthcare centres across the 27 local government areas of the state. In a ceremony held on Monday at the multi-purpose hall of the Government House in Maiduguri, Zulum symbolically presented...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A delegation of Youth Peace Advocates from the Peace Ambassadors Centre for Humanitarian Aid and Empowerment (PACHE) paid a courtesy visit to the Borno State Ministry of Information and Internal Security on Wednesday at the Musa Usman Secretariat in Maiduguri. The team, led...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has stated that the Maiduguri dry inland port will begin operations in six months. Zulum made this known on Wednesday in Lagos while addressing journalists after a courtesy call to the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Governing Council of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) has expressed gratitude to Governor Babagana Umara Zulum for the huge investment he has made in the education sector in Borno State. The chairman of the Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of the University, Dr Yunusa...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has extended a warm felicitation to the elder statesman and business tycoon, Alhaji Muhammadu Indimi on the occasion of his 77th birthday. He commended Indimi’s philanthropy and dedication to the development of Borno and Nigeria as a whole....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the appointment of 4 Special Advisers and 5 Senior Technical Assistants. Zulum’s approval was conveyed to newsmen on Friday in Maiduguri in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Hon. Bukar Tijani. The appointment...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Following recent flood disaster that ravaged Mainok Community of Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State, the lawmaker representing Borno North Senatorial District, Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno and House of Representatives Member representing Kaga/Magumeri/Gubio Federal Constituency, Hon. Usman Zannah, among other concerned stakeholders...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday commissioned 500 houses built by his administration at Nguro-Soye, a community in Bama Local Government Area of the state. The Nguro-Soye resettlement houses have public facilities such as schools, a primary healthcare centre, water facilities and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has reiterated its commitment to address the influx of unaccompanied children into the state. The commissioner of Information and Internal Security, Prof. Usman Tar, stated this following a State Security Council meeting on Monday. Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum,...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has alleged that 95 per cent of the youths that participated in Thursday’s violent protests in Maiduguri were children under 14 years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Zulum made this known in a broadcast to the people of Borno where...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum over the weekend inaugurated a committee of government and labour officials to work out measures and advise the state government towards the implementation of new national minimum wage for workers in Borno state. The committee, made up of...
Borno Police Command on Thursday alleged that Boko Haram elements have infiltrated protesters along Baga Road in Maiduguri, killing four persons, while 34 others sustained various degrees of injuries. The Police Commissioner (CP), Yusuf Lawal, disclosed this while providing a situation report to the News Agency of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has expressed commitment to addressing the manpower deficit in the healthcare sector of the state. The governor made this known on Sunday in Monguno when he paid an assessment visit to the project site for the construction of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Abuja – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Sunday, supervised the distribution of food items and agricultural inputs to over 35,000 male heads of household in Monguno Local Government area in the northern part of the state. Each of the 35,000 beneficiaries received one...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the appointment of Mal. Usman Aliyu as the Director General of Borno State Agency for Great Green Wall. The Great Green Wall is an African Union project to combat desertification in the Sahel region and prevent...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has announced a plan to revive the state-owned tomato factory located along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway. The governor announced the plan on Sunday when he paid an unscheduled assessment visit to the factory. During the visit, Zulum directed that...