By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government through the office of the Head of Service, Barrister Simon Malgwi on Tuesday embarked on a 2-Day training for top civil servants comprising of the ministerial secretaries and directors to acquire new skills on how to improve their productivity for effective...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are being relocated from their 8 years displacement camps from Maiduguri city, the Borno State capital and resettled to their ancestral homes despite some attacks from the Boko Haram Insurgents. A cross section of the returnee IDPs ,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved Monday, 1st of August, 2022 as public holiday to mark the new Islamic Year (1st Muharram 1444) AH. This was contained in a press statement signed by the Head of Service (HoS), Barrister Simon Malgwi which was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday flagged off the closure and relocation of about 52,000 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their ancestral homes in Mafa, Dikwa, Konduga, Bama, Gwoza, Marte Areas of the state. The official closure of the remaining four IDPs camps...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has doled out the sum of five million naira to support the innovative skills of a talented almajiri, Laminu Mohammed, who fabricated a manual-push farming plough machine for tilling and ploughing farmlands. Zulum, a professor of irrigation farming,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday in Damboa, coordinated the distribution of about N172 million cash alongside food items to 30,436 residents who are victims of destructions caused by flood. A total of 436 persons were identified as victims who lost shelters and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A cheque of N5m approved by Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has been presented to a private school to fund a scholarship for Musa Sani, a 13-year old talented Borno kid, who used mud to replicate the state’s first flyover around the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Thursday announced the allocation of 259 houses to the officers and men of The Nigeria Police Force from the thousands of housing estate being constructed by the state government. Governor Zulum also announced the release of N110 million...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Borno Central led by Governor Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, endorsed the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Kaka Lawan, as the sole candidate to contest for the Borno Central Senatorial election come 2023. The endorsement was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has described the emergence of Senator Kashim Shettima as APC’s Vice Presidential candidate, as the wisest choice made by the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed. Zulum stated this in a statement he personally signed on Sunday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Monday sworn in Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo as Borno State Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Development at the Government House Council Chamber in Maiduguri. It will be recalled that Hajiya Gambo missed last week’s swearing-in ceremony because...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Friday in Maiduguri, handed over 81 units of three-bedrooms apartments along with cheques worth a total of N79m to 81 resident medical doctors in the state. Each of the doctors was given a newly built flat at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has sworn in the newly appointed and approved State Commissioners with a charge on them to be in the forefront of promoting good governance and dedication to work. The governor gave the charge on Monday during the swearing in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned two roads covering 5.8 kilometers with drainages at London-ciki and Ngomari communities in Jere Local Government Area within the metropolis. The roads comprise of newly constructed 2.1 km road and drainage in Zannari road, rehabilitated 626 meters...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum on Saturday, in a grand gathering in Keffi, joined Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo, Chairman, Dangote Group of Companies Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and other leaders across Nigeria to witness the wedding ceremony of Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted his technical working group’s report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The technical working group was set up by the Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of displaced persons in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum led administration is currently constructing 13.34 kilometers of road and drainage network that comprises of ten roads within maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The 10 roads under construction are; dualising of Ahmadu Bello Way to Bama road junction, Shehu Sanda Kura...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the Borno State Ministry of Health and Human Services to employ all the 40 fresh medical doctors that recently passed out and graduated from various tertiary institutions within and outside the country into the Borno State...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Banagana Zulum on Sunday visited Logumani, a community in Ngala LGA of the state, where he approved the construction of 500 resettlement houses to accommodate returnees. Logumani residents were displaced as a result of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The people of the northeast, particularly those in Borno State, have spent more than half of Nigeria’s 23 years of uninterrupted democracy, showing “incredible resilience” against vicious attempts by Boko Haram insurgents to undermine democratic institutions, Governor Babagana Zulum said on Sunday. Governor Zulum...