By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has been according incredible support to the Nigerian military and in many instances he risks his life visiting front lines to motivate troops, Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has declared. The minister spoke on Tuesday at...
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The Minister of Defence, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, on Tuesday, paid an operational visit to the Theatre Command, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) in Maiduguri. Abubakar was accompanied in the visit by the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Mattawalle, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, Chief...
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday raised an alarm over what it termed “increasing rate of Tuberculosis (TB) infection in Borno.” The organisation’s Head of Mission/Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, expressed the organisation’s concern during the North-East Nigeria 13th WHO End-Term Joint Operations Review (JOR) in Yola. The...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Wednesday, directed the construction of about 4km road network at Federal Polytechnic, Monguno. The Governor ordered the allocation of a building owned by Borno State Government for use as a hostel by the polytechnic. Zulum directed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In continued efforts to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal and resettlement drive of Borno State Government, Prof. Babagana Zulum on Monday visited Baga town and Monguno town of Kukawa and Monguno Local Government respectively. In Kukawa, the governor transverse 20km...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has announced the closure of Government Senior Science Secondary School, Monguno IDPs camp, to pave way for the rehabilitation of the school and allow the resumption of academic activities. Zulum made the announcement on Tuesday during...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday ferried over 20km on Baga side of the Lake Chad Basin. Zulum was in Baga to assess portions of the Lake Chad towards his Government’s plan to enhance agricultural activities along the shores of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, on Wednesday, paid a condolence visit to the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umar Zulum, in Maiduguri over the death of his mother-in-law, Fatsuma Kyari, last week. Fatsuma Kyari was mother to Dr Falmata Babagana Zulum,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday, delivered a lecture to mark the 75th anniversary of the University of Ibadan (UI). The Governor noted that most of the graduates produced by universities across the country are less able to compete in terms...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday visited the operational headquarters of Niji Group of Companies in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. Niji Group (trade name of Niji Agro Services) “is a value-driven conglomerate with about three decades of successes in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved the release of N500m as registration fees for 19 medical and 93 nursing students. The Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board, Malam Bala Isa, disclosed this on while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Kashim Shettima, Borno’s Deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur, Senators, House of Representatives members and other top government officials on Monday afternoon attended the ‘Janaza’ (funeral prayers) of late Hajiya Fatsuma Kyari, Mother-in-law to Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara Zulum....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has inaugurated a vocational training institute in Mafa Local Government with the capacity of training 600 youths each year. The inauguration was performed on Friday evening after a brief ceremony. The newly established vocational institute named ‘Vocational...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has disclosed that his administration aims to support local residents in Dikwa and Ngala to cultivate 200 hectares of land under the rural irrigation project. Governor Zulum made this known on Friday while speaking to newsmen after the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has supervised the palliative distribution of N175m cash and food items for over 50,000 vulnerable residents in Dikwa town of Dikwa Local Government Area. The distribution started on Thursday and rounded up on Friday morning with each...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday, inspected 1000 housing projects at Logumani and Gajibo communities of Ngala and Dikwa Local Government Areas, respectively. Both communities were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents and residents were displaced since 2014. At Logumani where 500...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As parts of its intervention to the victims of Maidugri Monday Market, the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC), has donated N2 billion to the traders of the rebuilt Monday Markets to assist them pick up the pieces of their lives following the burnt down...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Wednesday presided over the swearing-in of a new commissioner and 3 Local Government Transitional Council chairmen. Borno State Chief Judge, Justice Kashim Zannah, who was represented by Hon. Justice Dr Banagana Karube administered the oath of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, has commended Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, for his relentless support to the armed forces working to restore peace in Borno State.Z The CDS also acknowledged that Governor Zulum’s commitment and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has announced the conversion of Mustapha Umar Elkanemi Arabic (Teachers) College in Maiduguri to a specialised institute for teaching of Arabic and Islamic education that will aim to counter the ideology of Boko Haram. The governor...