By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Police Commissioner, CP Yusufu Lawan, has revealed that 721 suspects were arrested and paraded in 2024. CP Lawan, who disclosed this during a press briefing on Tuesday at the command’s Headquarters in Maiduguri, highlighted the command’s achievements, including combating armed robbery, sexual...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has received the final report from the Borno State Flood Relief Disbursement Committee, which managed a whopping ₦28.2 billion in relief funds. Interestingly, the committee had already disbursed about ₦18.08 billion to over 101,330 affected families. The funds were...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has extended birthday wishes to former President Muhammadu Buhari, who celebrated his 82nd birthday today, December 17, 2024. Zulum praised Buhari for the leadership he provided during his stewardship of the country, noting the efforts he made to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has commissioned two newly constructed housing projects and two road projects executed by Governor Babagana Zulum in Maiduguri. He also commissioned 500 houses comprising of 10 units of one bedroom apartments and 400 units of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has named the newly constructed Metro Housing Estate after the Vice President Kashim Shettima. He also named Mega Government Secondary School Mari located along Bama Road Maiduguri newly constructed and commissioned after VP Shettima. Governor Zulum further named Dalamairi...
The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has conferred honourary doctorate degrees on the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, and governors Hope Uzodinma of Imo and Babagana Zulum of Borno. The recipients were decorated on Saturday in Owerri at the institution’s 36th convocation for their outstanding impact on the...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Owerri emphasised the need for quality education to speed up Nigeria’s economic development. Tinubu, in a goodwill message to the 36th Convocation of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, said that his administration places much premium on educational growth. His message was read...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Sunday, explained why the northern governors advised President Bola Tinubu to hold on before pushing the controversial tax reform bills. The governor who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the Northern Governors Forum only needs time for consultation....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, joined Vice President Kashim Shettima, Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, and other prominent personalities to attend the closing ceremony of this year’s African Military Games, AMGA24, held in Abuja. The closing ceremony was held on Saturday at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Director General, Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Mohammad Saidu Barkindo, has said SEMA spent more than a week at Ngala to conclude distribution of food items to about 14,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and those in host communities, who were affected...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A non-political Group under the umbrella of Southern Borno Concerned Citizens (SBCCs) has expressed shock and displeasure over the position of Senator Mohammed Monguno (APC Borno North) for endorsing the controversial Tax Reform Bills sent to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu. It...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called o northern leaders and citizens to emulate the virtues of the former Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello popularly known as the Sardauna of Sokoto. President Tinubu, who was represented by VP Kashim Shettima, made the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has called for greater transparency, accountability, and responsiveness in governance. Governor Zulum, who was the Special Guest and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 ZIK Annual Award Lecture in Abuja, was represented by the Chief Whip of the Senate and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Former President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday visited the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Garbai Ibn Umar El Kanemi, to offer condolences and sympathy over the recent flood disaster in Maiduguri. The flood claimed many lives and destroyed properties worth billions of naira. The Shehu...
The Chairman Borno State Internal Revenue Service, Prof. Bello Ibrahim, has said that the agency has no plan to introduce any new tax in the state for now. Ibrahim in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Maiduguri, said the state was for now...
Borno State Government has said its targeting N25b Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2025 as against the N19b for this year. The Chairman, Borno State Internal Revenue Service, Prof. Bello Ibrahim, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Maiduguri. Ibrahim...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has confirmed that only six repentant Boko Haram insurgents escaped and not 13 as being insinuated. The repentant insurgents had surrendered under the state government’s reconciliation programme. The Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Prof. Usman Tar, revealed this in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (APC Borno South) has dismissed reports mostly circulating on social Media that his convoy was ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists yesterday. Senator Ndume made the clarification on Wednesday at his Maiduguri residence, soon after he returned from condolence visit...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has been commended for his laudable efforts, commitment and resilience in building and resettling 424 internally displaced households in Konduga Local Government Areas of the State . The Borno State Commissioner of Justice and State Attorney General (SAG), ...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Flood Relief Distribution Committee has engaged fifty members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to expedite the ongoing verification process for flood relief distribution. Training sessions have began to familiarize the corps members with verification procedures and ensure their success in...