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...
Governor Babagana Zulum
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday undertook a supervisory and interactive visit to the Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, where he approved the permanent recruitment of 20 children of staff, with priority to those whose parents died working at the school. The Governor...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Chairman of All Progressives Congress, (APC), Hon Ali Bukar Dalori has debunked social media reports alleging that there is fracas among APC stakeholders in Borno, which may truncate the success of the ruling party in the forthcoming general elections. Hon. Dalori...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred the national honour award of Commander of Order of Niger (CON) on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum CON,. Zulum was conferred the award on Tuesday at the International Conference Center, Abuja among other hundreds of awardees spread...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has commended his Borno State counterpart, Prof. Babagana Umaru Zulum for his doggedness in fighting the menace of Boko Haram in the northeast. He said these efforts have made the insurgents to evaporate from the region and as a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, was in Bauchi on Sunday to condole with Governor Bala Mohammed who lost his elder brother, Bappa Mohammed. The deceased, who was a traditional title holder and a retired Deputy Director at the Central Bank of Nigeria,...
The Police Commissioner in Borno, Mr Abdu Umar has said that 389 policemen paid the supreme price and 450 others injured in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency from 2011 to date. He said that over 24 police barracks and 30 stations razed or destroyed, while several fighting equipments...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has presented a cheque of N100m as the state government’s continuos support the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) which is owned by the Federal Government. Zulum also laid the foundation for the construction of 24 units of 3-bedroom...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Thursday travelled to Malam-Fatori, the headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area, located along the shores of Lake Chad in the northern part of the state. During the visit, Zulum paid a surprise visit to Malam-Fatori Central Primary School...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved the appointments of three special advisers and a senior technical assistant. Zulum’s spokesperson, Malam Isa Gusau, who announced this on Friday morning in a statement, said the governor appointed Alhaji Umaru Bako, Alhaji Hassan Zanna Boguma and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the conferment of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) as national honours on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, announced this in a letter he conveyed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State, Committee on Flood Disaster has visited no fewer than three Local Government Areas namely Shani, Damboa and Chibok that are worst hit by floods in the state. The committee which was set up by Governor Babagana Zulum under the Chairmanship of State...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has congratulated newly elected executives of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Borno State. The executives were elected on Saturday at the council’s triennial delegates conference, which took place at the Musa Usman Secretariat in Maiduguri. Zulum’s congratulatory...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has announced scholarships for 100 members of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) for the study of International Institute of Journalists’ (IIJ) certificate course in collaboration with the Department of Mass Communication, University of Maiduguri....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has donated N81 million worth of equipment to the Civil and Water Engineering Department of University of Maiduguri in order to meet up with the Nigeria Universities Commission’s (NUC) accreditation, requirements which the institution could not meet up in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Tuesday at Buratai village in Biu Local Government Area commissioned a newly built mega school with capacity for 1,500 students. Zulum also directed the recruitment of an additional 20 teachers to be selected from the host community...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Worried by the destructions caused by floods in some communities across Borno State, Governor Babagana Zulum has assigned his Deputy, Umar Usman Kadafur to lead an assessment team to a tour of all affected LGAs for the purpose of ascertaining extent of damages, and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has distributed fourteen million, five hundred and eighty thousand naira (N14,580,000) alongside one thousand three hundred and sixty-six bags of grains to 683 volunteers helping the military to fight Boko Haram in Bama town. Zulum has been in Bama...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Provost of Umar Ibn Ibrahim El Kanemi College of Education, Science and Technology Bama, Hajiya Yagana Kyari has appealed to Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno to rescue the college by reinstating cases of staff, whose salary have been withheld since 2016 during the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Wednesday distributed food items to over 90000 male IDPs and also disbursed N400 cash, wrappers to about women IDPs and residents of host communities in Bama town. The Governor who personally coordinated and supervised the distribution and...