By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has sent a powerful delegation led by the state deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur to condole the NGO Medicine Du Monde over the brutal murder of one of their staff, Mrs Alem Mulugeta Getahun by Nigerian soldier in Damboa town. The...
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Borno State Govrrnor, Babagana Zulum has urged people of the state and members of All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure they deliver their units to the party during the 2023 generals election. Zulum stated this on Sunday in Maiduguri while inaugurating the 887-member APC Campaign Council in the state,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has opined that poverty is the major cause of Boko Haram insurgency in the state and North East region. The governor also suggested that there is the need for collective efforts to rid terrorism in the state and...
As part of our media plans towards Professor Zulum’s re-election, insha’Allah, we have been working behind the scene, to implement a syndicated multimedia plan (combining TV, Radio, Newspapers, online and Social-Media) within a timeline, that should, insha’Allah, start on 1st January, 2023 and run till the March Governorship. Our...
Borno Govt. budgets N83bn to drill over 1000 boreholes By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with Goal Prime Organization Nigeria (GPON), Borno State Environmental Protection Agency (BOSEPA) and other partners has organized Water and Sanitation Health (WASH) drama and demonstrations...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has written a condolence letter to the United Nations following the killing of a humanitarian worker by an unruly soldier, on Thursday in Damboa. Governor Zulum addressed the letter to the UN’s resident representative in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale. The...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A team of hunters and local vigilantes have intercepted a group of suspected kidnappers around Gorgor and Liya villages in Hawul LGA of Borno State. The team also recovered a sophisticated rifle and the sum of N945,000 as exhibits from the kidnappers and handed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to provide adequate security to lives and property of the citizenry and restore permanent peace in the state. He also commended the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba for his intuitive and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has declared open a 3-week At Risks Children Programme (ARC-P), which is a training programme for 968 youths facilitators selected from the 27 LGAs of the state. Declaring open the training programme in Maiduguri, Zulum said the programme...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has disbursed over N225 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and residents of Gamboru, Ngala and Wulgo host community and border towns of Ngala LGA in the northern part of the state . He also distributed wrappers to over...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday released a grant worth N814m to a combined number of 9,154 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), to stimulate local businesses. The Governor gave the grant at the launch of the “Borno COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reaffirmed his government ’s determination and commitment as well electioneering campaign promises to the people of Borno to improve on the availability, standard and quality of healthcare delivery services and its facilities across the 27 LGCs in the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered a review of primary school teachers’ verification exercise conducted in December 2020, which found 7,794 ghost teachers among 22,556 ghost workers across the 27 LGAs of the state. Zulum had set up a Primary School Teachers Verification...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has awarded N300 million scholarships to 300 orphans of Slain CJTF, hunters and vigilante groups fighting counter-insurgency in the state. Governor Zulum in his address on Tuesday in Maiduguri, also announced the increase of the monthly allowance for the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Monday approved the payment of outstanding leave grants and gratuities for Local Government workers in the state The State Commissioner for Local Government and Emirates Affairs, Hon Sugun Mai Meleh disclosed this at a press briefing with newsmen...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, on Saturday in Mafa Town of Borno State commissioned a combined number of 804 houses for the resettlement of internally displaced members of the Ngarannam community and its neighboring villages. Although the housing estate project...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered the integration of vocational skills in over 2,775 Quranic or Almajiri Tsangaya schools/centres widely known in the northern part of Nigeria as Almajiri schools and 451 Islamiyyah schools across the state. Governor Zulum gave the order on...
No fewer than 11 political parties have fielded candidates for the 2023 governorship election in Borno. The lists of the candidates is contained in a document released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Maiduguri. INEC’s Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP) in the state, Malam...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has allocated the 24 furnished houses his administration built and was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day recently in Maiduguri located at Bulumkutu Abuja area of Maiduguri metropolis. It will be recalled that the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali for his efforts, sacrifices and doggedness in providing security to lives and property of the citizenry of the state. He also assured the Nigerian Police that his...