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...
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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...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday flagged off the construction of Maiduguri’s 113-kilometre ring road project linking the east, west, and southern parts of the city. The project is part of Governor Zulum’s urban renewal drive, which aims to solve city congestion...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has won the Nigerian Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) Good Governance Award 2024 on education. At the event, which was tagged “NUJ Press Freedom and Governance Award”, 18 journalists and public servants who have distinguished themselves in their careers were...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Operatives of Borno State Police Command have raided the Baga Fish Market and disrupted the association’s congress meeting in session by carting away chairs and throwing teargas at the members. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, when members of Baga Road Youths and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has assured that his government would continue to prioritize of the welfare of civil servants in the state by ensuring that all backlog of promotions, grants and other entitlements are cleared. The governor stated this at the 2024...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has vowed to improve the welfare of lawyers and legal personnel of the state judiciary so as to improve the administration of criminal justice in the state. Zulum stated this on Monday during a 3-day workshop organized by...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government in collaboration with the National Center and Diseases Control (NCDC) and COVID 19 Preparedness and Response Project (COPREP) with funding from the World Bank have organized a stakeholders capacity building training on sexual violence, abuse and harassment for selected participants...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government held a grand ceremony on Sunday to honor M.M. Murtala, the outgoing State Director of Security for the Department of State Services (DSS). The ceremony, which took place at the Multipurpose hall of the Government House, Maiduguri had in attendance...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved the sale of two government-owned estates in Maiduguri on an owner-occupier basis. The two estates are Mustapha Umar Legacy Estate along Maiduguri – Damaturu road and the former CBN quarters, which was procured by the state...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has inaugurated the 2024 Amirul Hajj Committee that would ensure a hitch free, orderly, organized and proper welfare of the pilgrims from Borno State during the forthcoming 2024 Hajj exercise. Inaugurating the committee on Saturday at the Council...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the employment of 15 people with disability who have undergone formal educational system and obtained bachelor’s degree certificates, NCEs, diplomas and vocational training certificates. The governor gave the approval in Maiduguri on Friday night at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Qatari government on Thursday disclosed that over 1,000 orphans resulting from the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State will be supported while laying the foundation stone for constructing a new primary school. Making the announcement in Maiduguri during a meeting with the...