By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has resettled the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Konduga LGA into the newly constructed 1000 housing units that was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari months ago. The Commissioner for the Ministry of Reconstruction Rehabilitation and Resettlement (MRRR), Engr Mustapha Gubio relocated...
Babagana Zulum
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, was at the headquarters of Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in N’Djamena, Chad, to honour over 6,000 gallant soldiers. The soldiers were honoured at a medals parade held by the MNJTF to celebrate over 6,000 troops for their gallantry...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Late President of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s son, Shehu Yar’adua has tied the knot with Yasir Mammanoor Sheriff in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The wedding (Fatiha) took place at the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s family house located along Giwa Barracks. Top dignitaries in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Muslims faithful on Saturday morning defied rain shower to converged at eid-el grounds across Maiduguri Metropolis, the Borno State capital to observe the Eid-el-Kabir congregational rakaats (prayers). The Imam Idaini of Borno, Sheikh Imam Shettima Muhammad Saleh, led the two congregational rakaats (prayers) at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday affirmed that there is direct link between food transformation and the social problems of hunger, poverty, healthcare, insecurity and unemployment. Governor Zulum stated this during the North-East Sensitization Workshop on National Food System Transformation Pathways, which was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Germany Government is to support Federal Government of Nigeria with about 10 million Euros for the repatriation of Borno State citizens on refuge in the three countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroon Republics and Management of Repentant Boko Haram Insurgents. The fund is also...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has commissioned a 2.17 kilometre road with drainage, and a 30-bed primary health centre, both located at Wulari community in Maiduguri. The new road opens up access to Wulari and connects it with Maiduguri’s city centre. The long...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has announced that he will monitor the activities of the newly inaugurated commissioners and permanent secretaries in their ministerial offices at Musa Usman Secretariat. Governor Zulum stated this on Monday during the swearing in of the commissioners and permanent...
The technical working group on repatriation of Nigerians displaced from the North-East on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted its report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. President Muhammadu Buhari, had in February, inaugurated a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has addressed participants at the third edition of Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development which held on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. The Aswan Forum was launched in February 2019 by the Egyptian Government “in its capacity as...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned acute respiratory therapist treatment plant at the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri. The state Governor said the oxygen plants and solar direct drive refrigerators can go along way in complementing the efforts of the Borno State in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has began the presentation of mini buses to private individuals and corporate organisations to enhance entrepreneurial development and empowerment in the state. The mini buses are to be converted into an electric/solar powered vehicle with full support of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command has paraded no fewer than 154 suspects that were arrested for various crimes in the state. Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abdul Umar while briefing journalist on Wednesday at the Command Headquarters Maiduguri said the joint operational...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has forwarded a list of new State Commissioner nominees to The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly, Alhaji.Abdulkarim Lawan for confirmation. This is according to an official letter dated 14th May, 2022, which was issued by the governor to...
No fewer than 55 scrap metal collectors lost their lives in series of attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in the last three weeks in Borno. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdu Umar made this known while speaking on the sideline of a security stakeholders’ meeting on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has decorated his Aide de Camp (ADC) Ashigar Baba Kulubu, with the new rank of Deputy Superintendant of Police. The governor, who was assisted by Borno State Police Commissioner, Abdu Umar, described the ADC as a dedicated officer....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his emergence as presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Zulum in a statement issued on Thursday also congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari, national leaders and all stakeholders of the APC, for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu was on Wednesday led by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on a tour of 3,000-hectare rice farm in Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar Local Government Area.of Borno State. The mega farm is one of Zulum’s ongoing programmes in agriculture. The location...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has on Saturday, thanked delegates and party stakeholders following the victory of Senator Kashim Shettima at the primaries for Borno Central Senatorial election. Shettima won unopposed with 479 votes cast by delegates at an election that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has condoled with the families of victims of attack coordinated by Boko Haram/Islamic State of the West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists at Mudu village in Kala Balge LGA of the state. Zulum’s condolence message was contained in a statement...