By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Environment, Alhaji Balarabe Abbas, has deployed a team of experts to Maiduguri to address the environmental challenges caused by the recent flood disaster in the area. The team, which includes specialists in pollution management, environmental sustainability, and disaster response, will work...
Governor Babagana Zulum
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, visited the Bakassi IDPs Camp in Maiduguri on Wednesday to distribute N10,000 cash to each male and female household affected by the recent flood disaster in Maiduguri. The flood, which has affected over 1 million people and displaced 100,000...
There is growing concern over shortage of foodstuff and other commodities in Maiduguri as thousands of resident struggle for survival, aftermath ravaging flood. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the flood submerged major markets including grain, fruit and vegetable depots in the town, while many shopping complexes...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has expressed deep concern about the flooding in parts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the worst flood in recent decades has displaced thousands of residents and affected facilities such as the Post office and the Maiduguri...
The Forestry and Wild Life in Borno Ministry of Environment says a herd of elephants that allegedly strayed from the neighbouring Cameroon has invaded and destroyed some community farmlands in the state. A Director in the ministry, Mr Ayuba Peter, confirmed the ugly incident in an interview with the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the immediate activation of all relevant government resources and machinery ahead of any possible overflow of water due to the unprecedented high volume of rainfall this year, to avert any flood disaster in Maiduguri, it’s environs and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Kashim Shettima has joined the Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, and other dignitaries, associates, and family members in attending the funeral of Alhaji Ahmed Ali Ahmed, Zulum’s late commissioner for finance and economic development, on Monday in Maiduguri. The funeral prayer was...
By SADIQ ABU, Maiduguri – Borno State House of Assembly has passed over N18 billion Virement Bill into Law as enshrined in the constitution. Presiding over the Tuesday plenary, Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Abdulkarim Lawan said, the House received report from House Committee on Budget and Appropriation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umar Zulum on Tuesday launched the Borno’s 2024 tree-planting exercise with 10 million assorted seedlings aimed at controlling desertification in the state. The largest tree-planting campaign in Nigeria’s history was kicked off in a ceremony at Kawuri village in Konduga...
The police in the state had dispersed thugs hiding under the cover of the nationwide protest to attack offices of Borno State Traffic Management Agency in Maiduguri. Maiduguri residents have welcomed the declaration of 24-hour curfew in the town to contain efforts by some thugs to hijack the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state, effective immediately, following a deadly explosion that occurred in the Kawori area of the state. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the explosion, which was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED), resulted in...
Borno State farmers have lauded the initiative of the State Government in providing free bus rides for those, whose farms are located at the outskirts of Maiduguri town. A cross section of farmers, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri said, the gesture was...
Borno State Government is to sponsor indigent students wishing to study Chinese language in China. The Executive Secretary of the Borno Scholarship Board, Mallam Bala Isa, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on Tuesday. Bala said that apart...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, has approved the appointment of Mallam Aminu Muhammad Chamalwa as the Director General of Borno State Mining Agency (BOSMA). The Commissioner, Ministry of Information and Internal Security, Borno State, Prof. Usman Tar, announced the governor’s appointment in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has shown its commitment to education equity by disbursing N507,654,000 to cover the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fees for 25,075 final-year students in public schools across the state. This was disclosed by the state’s Commissioner of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Network of Civil Society Organizations in Borno State, the umbrella body for civil society organizations in the state, visited the Agency for Coordination of Sustainable Development, Partnership, and Humanitarian Response on Tuesday, 25th June 2024. The Network is responsible for coordinating the...
Eleven governors have been selected for the Institute of Security and Strategic Studies (ISSS)’s Excellence Award. The Registrar of the Institute, Dr Sunday Idakwoji, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the award would be presented to the governors on Nov. 23. The award for Best Governor...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has taken a spiritual approach regarding the frequent destruction of electricity towers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Road Governor Babagana Zulum’ has directed the involvement of Quranic and other spiritual rituals against those engaging in the vandalism of electricity towers along the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East Governors Forum (NEGF) has reiterated its concern over the seeming neglect of the Northeast in the allocation of Federal Government Capital Projects. The forum also lamented over the blackout being experienced in the North East region, adding that the region...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The State Exercise Council Members (SEC) and Local Government Councils Executives and registered members of the National Union of Pensioners (NUP), Borno State Chapter, have commended Governor Babagana Zulum, for alleviating the plight of pensioners through prompt payment of their pensions and gratuities....