By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, was honoured on Saturday with the Visionary Leader/Pillar of Democracy Award for the year 2023 by Champion Newspaper for his outstanding contributions to the development and progress of his state. The award ceremony, held at the Convention Centre...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has announced a donation of bungalow flats to some serving and retiring Professor of university of Maiduguri. Governor Zulum also announced the intention of building additional housing estates for the staff of the university while pledging to resolve...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has said, the ongoing Jere Bowl construction of about 50 kilometres road project which crossed six communities of Gwowom, Koshebe, Dusuman, Gadamari, Zabarmari and Gongulong in Jere and Mafa local government areas by the North East Development...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Theater Command, Operation Hadin Kai JTF North East, has rescued over 350 persons during a 10 day clearance operation in Sambisa Forest. The rescued persons comprised of women , children and men who were handed over to the Borno State Government after...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday in Bama town flagged off three months training workshop for 781 teachers drawn from 19 LGC Education Authorities across the state. Represented by the Borno State Deputy Governor, Hon. Umar Usman Kadafur , the governor added...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The North-East Governors’ Forum (NEGF) has lamented that the Federal Government has neglected the subregion in the allocation of capital projects. The Forum stated that despite the cry for attention on the state of infrastructure which have been echoed several times in its...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has said that the distribution of palliatives by the federal government was not a permanent solution to food scarcity bedeviling the nation. Governor Zulum, who is also the Chairman, North East Governors’ Forum (NEGF), called on stakeholders...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The North-East Governors’ Forum (NEGF) has berated the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) over its nonchalance in tackling head-on, the recent persistent blackout being experienced in the subregion. The governors said they’re keenly watching to see how committed the TCN is in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, alongside Governors of Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, have pleaded with the federal government to address some critical issues affecting the northeast region. The governors made the plea on Friday in a communique signed by the...
No fewer than 668 kidney patients benefitted from Borno Government’s free dialysis programme from 2019 till date, an official said. The Unit in-Charge of the Kidney Centre of Maiduguri Specialist Hospital, Dr Mohammed Yaro, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday supervised the distribution of N250 million to over 25,000 widows and vulnerable women through the Borno Renaissance Microfinance Bank in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state. The distribution took place in four centres, including Central...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has approved N200 million and a housing estate for teachers as a take-off package for the newly established Federal College of Education, Gwoza. Zulum announced this on Tuesday during an inspection visit to the temporary site of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has extended his warm congratulations to Professor Bala Muhammad Audu on his victory in the recent Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) election held during its annual delegates conference in Calabar on Saturday. Governor Zulum, in a statement released by...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has extended his commiseration to the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, following the demise of the Emir of Tikau, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Ibn Grema. Governor Zulum received the shocking news of the death of one of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, who was in New York on Thursday, visited the UN Deputy Secretary-General (DSG), Amina J. Mohammed. During the visit, Zulum held a closed-door meeting with the Deputy Secretary-General and a few officials. Governor Zulum was at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has advocated for the revival of the Sambisa forest which was affected by the over one decade old Boko Haram insurgency. Governor Zulum was speaking on Thursday in New York at the UN’s High-Level Segment Roundtable on: “Forest-based...
By PROFESSOR USMAN A. TAR The Borno State Government has been battling with the problems of teachers’ recruitment, remuneration and retention. Over the years, unscrupulous employment practices, particularly by Local Education Authorities, have resulted in the engagement of persons who were not qualified into the teaching profession contrary...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice Chairman of Marte LGC of Borno State, Alhaji Mustapha Mohamed, has appealed to Governor Babagana Zulum to impress on the Nigerian military and Multi Joint National Task Force (MNJTF) to liberate Kirnewa town of Marte LGC to enable the residents of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum is among the dignitaries to speak at the 2024 Edition of the Africa Dialogue Series (ADS 2024), holding at the United Nations headquarters in New York, from May 6th to 24th, 2024. According to a publication by the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday flagged off a three day training workshop for 1,949 teachers selected across the 27 LGAs of the state at Waka Biu Colleague of Education. Governor Zulum in his remarks said the training was informed by the...