By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Over 150 clubs, associations, professional bodies and groups in Borno State have contributed and presented a cheque of N50 million to Governor Babagana Zulum to enable him purchase the APC expression of interest and nomination forms and to re-contest for the governorship election come...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Sunday affirmed that the state government has cleared all backlog of pensions, leave grants, gratuities and outstanding salaries of workers in the state. The governor stated this on Sunday during the 1st May 2022 Workers’ Day celebration held...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, Inaugurated 300 first batch of Road Marshals of Borno State Traffic Management Agency (BOTMA). The state government in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has also trained and equiped the marshals. Chief of Staff to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has felicitated with christians in the state and rest of Nigeria on the ongoing Easter festival. Zulum, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, called on citizens to pray and deeply reflect on key messages of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the release of five vehicles and business grant to fish marketers in Monguno. Zulum’s offer, was issued during an interactive meeting with fish dealers in Monguno town during his visit that ended Saturday, which is aimed to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, during a late night visit to General Hospital in Monguno, on Saturday, announced the approval of 30% salary increase for doctors in seven Local Government Areas with peculiarities. Aside medical doctors, nurses, midwives, lab technicians, pharmacists and other health...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has supervised the disbursement of N275,000,000 alongside the distribution of bags of grains, and textiles to 90,000 internally displaced households in Monguno. This kind of intervention, which Zulum has sustained in the last three years, is part of multi-faced...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Worried by problems of water shortage in some areas, Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has visited some communities in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Jere LGA, during which he ordered the State Ministry of Water Resources to ensure quick restoration of water supply to...
Says Borno to get 30 megawatts solar power supply By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived Maiduguri , the Borno State capital on Thursday on a day state working visit . Osinbajo, who landed at Maiduguri Air Force base airspace at 11.20 am was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday, distributed food items, cloth and combined cash of five million, seven hundred thousand to 285 1, messengers and others at the lowest rank, working at the Government House in Maiduguri. Each of them received a bag of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Saturday began the Ramadan fast in his hometown, Mafa, in Borno State, where he spent Friday night and flagged off the spiritual exercise. Mafa is headquarter of Mafa Local Government Area in the central part of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq has said her ministry would continue to support and cushion the hardship of the people of Borno State particularly the IDPs who have been affected by the 13 years of Boko...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday addressed multinationals from Lake Chad countries, and development partners from the UK and other countries, during an ongoing conference being hosted by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office.. The conference, tagged “Lake Chad Basin: Key Steps...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the sum of N50 million grant for the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) to research into the prevalence of kidney diseases in the state. Chief Medical Director (CMD) of UMTH, Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo, disclosed Zulum’s intervention...
There is nothing, so far, in the race for the national chair of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), that is as significant in form, content and context as the open endorsement of Senator George Akume for the plum party position by the governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday outrightly rejected the naming of two blocks of hostel in his honour, at the Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, which is owned by the State Government. Zulum was at the polytechnic to commission the hostels for 1,500 students,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Sunday led key stakeholders on humanitarian visit to Gwoza LGA to assess reconstruction works in Kirawa, ahead of the resettlement of IDPs in the border community. Zulum was accompanied by personalities from Gwoza who included Senator Muhammad Ali...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – No fewer than four hundred and fifty thatch and leather tents were destroyed by fire outbreak at Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) designated IDPs Camp in Mafa LGA of Borno State. The fire outbreak also destroyed the IDPs properties including foodstuffs and other valuable...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday in Abuja, chaired the inaugural meeting of a technical working group under the main Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East. The broader committee was constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari who...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The members of Traders and Hand Workers Association of Post Office Maiduguri (TAHWAP) have commended Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum for empowering them with N75.4 million to boost their respective trades and hand works in the state. The Chairman of the association, Ambassador Mohammed...