By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has commended the recruitment of 3,000 teachers for the public schools in the state. The Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Ali Musa, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday, encouraged all interested and eligible candidates to...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has promised to deliver more than 99% votes in Borno for APC in the upcoming 2023 general election Governor Zulum made this promise on Saturday when he received the APC women Presidential Campaign Council on a courtesy visit at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Borno State, Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim, has said no fewer than 2 million voters are expected to cast their votes in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. He said the elections would hold in all the 5072...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq has commended The North East Development Commission (NEDC) for executing its intervention mandate of resettlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction of the north east which has been devastated by Boko Haram insurgency....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Labour Party (LP), has inaugurated Obedient Support groups and assured that the presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi is the candidate to beat, as the party provide alternative to the depressed Nigerians in 2023. The Borno State Chairman of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In less than 24 hours after a surprise visit by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, a solar system as an alternative source of power, has been installed at Umaru Shehu Ultra Modern Hospital located around Bulumkutu axis in Maiduguri. The solar system was installed on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commended the initiative and Implementation of the federal government project, tagged: “(ARC-P) in Borno state and some parts of the country. Governor Zulum said the ARC-P project implementation in the state is not only apt but crucial as...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says 61 persons lost their lives in 33 road traffic crashes in Borno between May and November 2022. The Sector Commander of the Corps, Utten Iki-Boyi disclosed this on Thursday in Maiduguri. He said that 151 persons sustained varying degree of injuries in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has inaugurated the state’s Campaign Council for the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 general elections. During the inauguration held at the multipurpose hall of the Government House in Maiduguri on Sunday, Zulum reminded the campaign council...
Borno State Govrrnor, Babagana Zulum has urged people of the state and members of All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure they deliver their units to the party during the 2023 generals election. Zulum stated this on Sunday in Maiduguri while inaugurating the 887-member APC Campaign Council in the state,...
Borno Govt. budgets N83bn to drill over 1000 boreholes By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with Goal Prime Organization Nigeria (GPON), Borno State Environmental Protection Agency (BOSEPA) and other partners has organized Water and Sanitation Health (WASH) drama and demonstrations...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has inaugurated the Satomi’s ward and unit coordinators for APC, ahead of 2023 election. The inauguration of 12 wards and polling units coordinators of the federal lawmakers, Engr. Ahmed Satomi’s Campaign structure across each polling unit of...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has called for adequate protection for aid workers in the North East. Schmale made the call while reacting to the Thursday killing of an aid worker by a soldier , who ran amok in Damboa, Borno. ”The killing of a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigeria Army Theatre Command of Operation HADIN Kai on Thursday said a soldier went berserk, shot and killed a staff of one of the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) providing humanitarian support in the North East. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Maj.Samson Nantip Zhakom,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has disbursed over N225 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and residents of Gamboru, Ngala and Wulgo host community and border towns of Ngala LGA in the northern part of the state . He also distributed wrappers to over...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Participants mobilizing Borno State stakeholders to develop transitional justice and reconciliation policy recommendations in the North East Nigeria have recommended that there should be advocacy and dialogue on the need to accept repentant insurgents back to their ancestral homes. They also recommended that government...
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 – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has donated relief materials to victims of flood in Borno state. The relief items which are in two batches were donated by President Muhammadu Buhari as federal government’s support released from the National Strategic Reserve Stock, and the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Federal Commissioner of Public Complaints Commission (PCC) , Borno State, Hon. Yusuf Adamu has said about 4,000 cases out of the 6000 cases he inherited since his assumption of office have been resolved by the commission under his watch Adamu who revealed this...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – It was another moment of relief for flood victims as the Women Wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 Presidential Campaign Team visited the affected population in Damaturu, Yobe state and made a cash donation of N20 million to the victims. The women...