By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – For the third time in less than three months, President Muhammadu Buhari has presented a national award to Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. In the latest award yesterday (Thursday) at the Eagle Square in Abuja, Zulum was named Governor of the Year,...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commended the King of Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the President of Dangote Foundation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote for their humanitarian support to the people of the state, especially victims of Boko Haram insurgency and flood disaster....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his usual way of appreciating hard work, the Deputy Governor of Borno State, His Excellency Hon Umar Usman Kadafur has donated 4 new brand cars to supporters of ZulKad administration in Biu Local Government Area. The beneficiaries are, Hon. Bala Mohammed, Bello Mohammed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has sent a powerful delegation led by the state deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur to condole the NGO Medicine Du Monde over the brutal murder of one of their staff, Mrs Alem Mulugeta Getahun by Nigerian soldier in Damboa town. The...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has opined that poverty is the major cause of Boko Haram insurgency in the state and North East region. The governor also suggested that there is the need for collective efforts to rid terrorism in the state and...
As part of our media plans towards Professor Zulum’s re-election, insha’Allah, we have been working behind the scene, to implement a syndicated multimedia plan (combining TV, Radio, Newspapers, online and Social-Media) within a timeline, that should, insha’Allah, start on 1st January, 2023 and run till the March Governorship. Our...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has written a condolence letter to the United Nations following the killing of a humanitarian worker by an unruly soldier, on Thursday in Damboa. Governor Zulum addressed the letter to the UN’s resident representative in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale. The...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to provide adequate security to lives and property of the citizenry and restore permanent peace in the state. He also commended the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba for his intuitive and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has declared open a 3-week At Risks Children Programme (ARC-P), which is a training programme for 968 youths facilitators selected from the 27 LGAs of the state. Declaring open the training programme in Maiduguri, Zulum said the programme...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday released a grant worth N814m to a combined number of 9,154 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), to stimulate local businesses. The Governor gave the grant at the launch of the “Borno COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reaffirmed his government ’s determination and commitment as well electioneering campaign promises to the people of Borno to improve on the availability, standard and quality of healthcare delivery services and its facilities across the 27 LGCs in the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered a review of primary school teachers’ verification exercise conducted in December 2020, which found 7,794 ghost teachers among 22,556 ghost workers across the 27 LGAs of the state. Zulum had set up a Primary School Teachers Verification...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has awarded N300 million scholarships to 300 orphans of Slain CJTF, hunters and vigilante groups fighting counter-insurgency in the state. Governor Zulum in his address on Tuesday in Maiduguri, also announced the increase of the monthly allowance for the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Monday approved the payment of outstanding leave grants and gratuities for Local Government workers in the state The State Commissioner for Local Government and Emirates Affairs, Hon Sugun Mai Meleh disclosed this at a press briefing with newsmen...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, on Saturday in Mafa Town of Borno State commissioned a combined number of 804 houses for the resettlement of internally displaced members of the Ngarannam community and its neighboring villages. Although the housing estate project...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno state has approved the appointment of Barrister Simon Malgwi as his Special Adviser (SA) on Legal and Administrative Matters. Until his appointment on Thursday , Barrister Malgwi was the Head of Service (HOS) , Borno state whose 35...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered the integration of vocational skills in over 2,775 Quranic or Almajiri Tsangaya schools/centres widely known in the northern part of Nigeria as Almajiri schools and 451 Islamiyyah schools across the state. Governor Zulum gave the order on...
No fewer than 11 political parties have fielded candidates for the 2023 governorship election in Borno. The lists of the candidates is contained in a document released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Maiduguri. INEC’s Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP) in the state, Malam...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has allocated the 24 furnished houses his administration built and was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day recently in Maiduguri located at Bulumkutu Abuja area of Maiduguri metropolis. It will be recalled that the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali for his efforts, sacrifices and doggedness in providing security to lives and property of the citizenry of the state. He also assured the Nigerian Police that his...