By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has approved an extension of teachers retirement age from 60 to 65 years in the state. The governor announced the upward review on Wednesday in Maiduguri, to commemorate the 2022 edition of World Teachers Day. Borno State Commissioner for...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has said the state government will commence payment of outstanding arrears of promotional benefits to state civil servants by the end of January 2023 The governor revealed this during the swearing in ceremony of the new Chairman and board...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Special Adviser to the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monitoring and Evaluation, Engr Ibrahim Idris Garba on Saturday inspected the ongoing construction of 2.9 kilometers road and drainage around College of Education, Waka Biu in Biu LGA of the state. The project...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has addressed multinational groups in New York, United States of America, towards increasing focus on the education of girls in Nigeria and around the world. The Governor traveled to the US as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s delegation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the appointment of Baba Bura Usman as Borno State’s new Accountant General. The appointment was announced by the Governor’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued on Wednesday night. Baba Bura Usman was, until his appointment,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Wednesday in Biu town, commissioned a 60-classroom community school for higher Islamic studies, built and donated by the state government. Zulum arrived Biu town on Tuesday and passed the night, before today’s commissioning of the higher Islamic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday commissioned Government Day Secondary School Buratai in Buratai Community of Biu LGA, as part of government efforts to enhance quality and standard of education in the state. The governor was received on arrival in Buratai by the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has approved the release of N10m and a house to the bereaved family of Babagana Mallam Tela famously called Kadau who was the overall commander of the ‘Civilian JTF’ in Bama LGA, before he was killed by Boko...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum on Monday visited the village market in former Boko Haram Stronghold village in Cross Kauwa, which is a commercial nerve center of all the surrounding towns and villages linking the village such Baga , Monguno and Kukawa, towns which are the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Govenor Babagana Umara Zilum has flagged off a two day sensitisation workshop at the International Conference Hall in Maiduguri, themed:” promoting peace and national development through equitable distribution of socio-economic amenities and infrastructural facilities nationwide.” The governor, who commended the efforts of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Media aides, alongside social media associates, on Thursday unveiled a compendium, the 3rd Verdict, to celebrate the 53rd birthday of Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. The compendium’s Editor-in-Chief, who is also the Governor’s Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has given a rousing welcomed to El kanemi Warriors Football Club team players and the technical crew on their arrival form Sokoto Premier League match, where they won the match which earned them a promotion to Nigeria Professional Football...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has commenced the training of store keepers to enhanced their performance. Declaring the training workshop open on Monday in Maiduguri, the State Head of Service, Barr Simon Malgwi, said the training was inline with the training and retraining programme of the...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has renewed the commitment of humanitarian community to supporting Borno and others hit by humanitarian crisis. Schmale made this known in Maiduguri on Thursday to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day, graced by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Allow me to recall that...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Maiduguri directed the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and its agencies to come up with specific programmes to address urgent threats posed by explosive remnants in the North East region. The President, who...
More than 7,264 persons are to benefit from Federal Government’s Grant for Vulnerable Groups (GVG) programme in Borno. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, announced this on Wednesday while inaugurating the programme in Maiduguri. Farouq said the programme started in 2020 as...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the payment of N30,000 minimum wage for qualified primary school teachers in the state. Governor Zulum gave the approval on Wednesday when he received the leaders of the organized labour, who were on a courtesy visit at...
The reign of terrorists is not without its own sardonic humour. Soon after storming Kuje prison in Abuja to free their comrades in arms, ISWAP terrorists indicated an interest in two pricey trophies: President Muhammadu Buhari and, my friend and brother, Nasir El Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State. While...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in Borno State, on Tuesday in Maiduguri, commended Governor Babagana Zulum for the release of N705 million to clear outstanding leave grant owed workers. Governor Zulum had on Tuesday, 2nd August,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned the parameter fencing of Divisional police station and barracks in Askira LGA. The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner from the Ministry of Reconstruction Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Engr Mustapha Gubio, said the commissioning was inline...