By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has announced an initiative titled “Borno Heroes Support Programme” for the award of educational scholarship to 500 orphans and their widowed mothers left behind by members of the Civilian JTF, hunters and vigilantes who died during battles with Boko Haram...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Dr. Mohammed Abubakar has commissioned roads, drainages network as well as solar energy street light projects in Maiduguri city, the Borno State’s capital. The minister, who was epresented by the North East Zonal Director of FMARD,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – On his fourth day in Southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum in Shani has distributed farming tools to 1,750 farmers from three Local Government Areas of Bayo, Shani and Hawul. 1,000 farmers from Bayo, 500 from Hawul and 250 from Shani benefited from the intervention....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his third day of the commissioning tour of southern Borno, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was in Hawul LGA on Thursday, during which he commissioned five projects. At the commissioning of one of the five projects which is a secondary school owned by community...
Brigadier-General Zirkushu Dzarma and four other soldiers were buried in Yola, Adamawa state on November 26, 2021. The burial service of Brigadier-General Zirkushu Dzarma and four other soldiers who died fighting against Boko Haram terrorists was held on Friday at the Saint Stephen’s Protestant Church in Yola, Adamawa State....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – On his second day of commissioning tour in Southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday commissioned a skill acquisition centre and a secondary school in Kwaya Kusar Local Government Area. The governor, after passing Tuesday night at Biryel in Bayo Local Government also spent...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his first day of ongoing commissioning tour of 23 projects in southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum has commissioned a newly mega-size Government Day Technical Secondary School sited in Wuyo, Bayo Local Government Area of Borno State. He also commissioned three other projects in...
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri, have vacated their camps, ahead of the Nov.30, dateline for the closure of all Displaced Persons camps by the Borno Government. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited some camps on Wednesday, reports that most of them have been deserted by...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has led the state’s senators to meet Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor at the Defence headquarters in Abuja. Governor Zulum led senators Kashim Shettima (Borno Central), Muhammad Ali Ndume (Borno South) and Abubakar Kyari (Borno North)...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – More than five thousand Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who indicated interest to return to safe and rebuilt communities have received half a billion naira (N500m) when Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, showed up around 5:45am at a government controlled camp, fondly called ‘Bakassi’ in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In an effort towards ending open defecation in Borno State, the General Manager, Rural Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Engr. Dr. Mohammed Aliyu has disclosed that about 66,570 people have so far gained access to safe toilet and sanitation facilities through the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum has said the visit of Sudan Mission team to the state to interact and share experience with relevant stakeholders in the field of agriculture is timely and important, considering the fact that both the Sudan Republic and Borno...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Wednesday, led a delegation on condolence visit to the bereaved family of late Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkushu. The Governor met the family at Ribadu Cantonment in Kaduna, during which he directed the immediate release of N20m as...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has commended the Nigerian military for putting up a strong resilience in a battle with fighters from the Islamic State of West Africa Province, who launched attacks on a military base in Askira/Uba LGA of southern Borno State,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Deputy Governor, Hon Umar Kadafur on Friday chaired the High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting with Humanitarian and Development partner on the returning of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to their ancestral homes as Governor Babagana Zulum planned to close all IDPs camps...
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum on Thursday laid the foundation stone of 2,275 length township road and drainage system in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state. The construction work is to be handled by Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (Newmap) which is being funded jointly...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has approved and released the sum of N476, 640 million for payment of 2020/2021 scholarship to 15,374 Borno citizens in tertiary institutions across the state. Commissioner for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Engr. Babagana Mallumbe Mustapha announced...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has hosted a send off dinner in respect of Edward Kallon who was the UN Residents Coordinator in Nigeria since 2016 and now transferred to Zimbabwe. Governor Zulum, who was represented by Borno’s Deputy Governor, Hon Umar Kadafur at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has said it would continue to enhance border cooperation with neighboring Niger Republic, particularly in the area of peace and security, economic and infrastructural development. Governor Babagana Zulum stated this on Monday in Maiduguri, while declaring open The Local Bilateral...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As a mark of peaceful, cordial and harmonious working relationship between the Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum and his Deputy Hon. Umar Usman Kadafur, the governor paid an unscheduled visit on his deputy in the office and met him on seat ....