By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Deputy Governor Umar Usman Kadafur has congratulated the former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima over his emergence as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Hon. Kadufur in a statement issued on Sunday, said he is very...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday affirmed that there is direct link between food transformation and the social problems of hunger, poverty, healthcare, insecurity and unemployment. Governor Zulum stated this during the North-East Sensitization Workshop on National Food System Transformation Pathways, which was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has commissioned a 2.17 kilometre road with drainage, and a 30-bed primary health centre, both located at Wulari community in Maiduguri. The new road opens up access to Wulari and connects it with Maiduguri’s city centre. The long...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has announced that he will monitor the activities of the newly inaugurated commissioners and permanent secretaries in their ministerial offices at Musa Usman Secretariat. Governor Zulum stated this on Monday during the swearing in of the commissioners and permanent...
The technical working group on repatriation of Nigerians displaced from the North-East on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted its report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. President Muhammadu Buhari, had in February, inaugurated a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned acute respiratory therapist treatment plant at the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri. The state Governor said the oxygen plants and solar direct drive refrigerators can go along way in complementing the efforts of the Borno State in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has began the presentation of mini buses to private individuals and corporate organisations to enhance entrepreneurial development and empowerment in the state. The mini buses are to be converted into an electric/solar powered vehicle with full support of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has forwarded a list of new State Commissioner nominees to The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly, Alhaji.Abdulkarim Lawan for confirmation. This is according to an official letter dated 14th May, 2022, which was issued by the governor to...
No fewer than 55 scrap metal collectors lost their lives in series of attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in the last three weeks in Borno. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdu Umar made this known while speaking on the sideline of a security stakeholders’ meeting on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has decorated his Aide de Camp (ADC) Ashigar Baba Kulubu, with the new rank of Deputy Superintendant of Police. The governor, who was assisted by Borno State Police Commissioner, Abdu Umar, described the ADC as a dedicated officer....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his emergence as presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Zulum in a statement issued on Thursday also congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari, national leaders and all stakeholders of the APC, for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu was on Wednesday led by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on a tour of 3,000-hectare rice farm in Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar Local Government Area.of Borno State. The mega farm is one of Zulum’s ongoing programmes in agriculture. The location...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the dissolution of the State Executive Council (SEC) for the first time since he assumed office three years ago The dissolution, which is with immediate effect, was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Administration...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Members of the Borno State Executive Council (SEC) and Special Advisers to Governor Babagana Zulum, who are contesting various elective positions in the forthcoming general election and byelection have formally tendered their resignation letters to the state governor in compliance with the new electoral...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has once more lambasted the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum over his alleged pampering of repentant Islamic terrorists in the state rather than concentrating on delivering social justice for the victims of terrorism. HURIWA said the constant focus in the media on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday gave a total sum of N62,750,000 to 846 elders and labourers providing services at Bolori Stores, a popular area in Maiduguri where trailers offload and move variety of wholesale food and non-food products from Borno to other...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – For the fourth time, Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Sunday, undertook a humanitarian assessment of Malam-Fatori, headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area in northern Borno on the fringes of the Lake Chad. Zulum had visited Malam-Fatori in February 2020, July 2021 and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum’s Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau, on Wednesday obtained Masters’ Degree (MA) in Media and Public Relations with the highest classification of Distinction at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Unlike Nigerian...