By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum on Tuesday launched Borno State’s Basic Healthcare Provision Fund, with the disbursement of N418m to 79 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across the state. The launch was held at the Multipurpose Hall of the Government House in Maiduguri, with the participation of...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Zaymah International Model College Bulumkutu Tsalle Maiduguri has held its first Quranic recitation and prize giving day at the college premises to mark the passing out 2020/2021 female graduating Quranic students . The College Proprietress, Hajiya Madina Baba Yusuf charged the students and pupils...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has dismissed reports that an explosion rocked the Maiduguri airport in Borno State. In a statement issued on Saturday, The General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, said the information was false as there was neither an explosion...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Maiduguri city, the capital of Borno State was early morning woke up by multiple heavy explosions that destroyed property worth millions of naira and left few residents injured including an infant in 1000 Housing Estate area of the capital city. NATIONAL ACCORD reliably gathered...
Nigerian military troops in the North-East yesterday eliminated no fewer than 24 terrorists of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) extremist sect. The terrorists, PRNigeria gathered, met their waterloo after attempting to attack a military base in Rann, a town ravaged by insurgency, in Borno State. Two...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has explained that his occasional firing and suspension of erring government officials do not make him happy, as they even create political enemies for him. However, the governor said he took such measures to make government officials dedicate...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday launched a mega-size empowerment package for thousands of constituents in Konduga town. The empowerment was sponsored by a member of House of Representatives representing Dikwa, Konduga and Mafa Federal Constituency, Engr. Mohammed Ibrahim Abubakar, popularly known...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly (BOSHA), Rt. Hon. Abdulkarim Lawan has lamented over the increasing rate of child sexual abuse in the state. Hon. Lawan, who was represented by the Deputy Speaker, BOSHA, Hon. Engr. Abdullahi Askira, stated this while declaring open...
A team of policemen patrolling Maiduguri-Damaturu road, on Monday prevented the abduction of a soldier and 15 travellers by insurgents. The soldier, a Lance Corporal, is attached 4 Battalion, Marte. Borno Police Command spokesman, ASP Sani Kamilu said the incident occurred around Yanakiri and Kondori villages when insurgents in...
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 – 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...
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 – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has set a dateline of December 15, less than a month from now, for contractors to complete the state’s first flyover and three other major projects. The governor gave the deadline on Thursday evening, during an inspection...
The Nigerian Army on Friday repelled an attack by the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno. Brig.-Gen. Abdulwahab Eyitayo, the Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, disclosed this in a phone interview with the News...
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 – A humanitarian organization, Professionals for Humanity (PROFOH) is to partner with Borno State Government to address challenges in healthcare service delivery and environmental issues affecting Borno. This was the outcome of a meeting held on Tuesday between officials of PROFOH and Governor Babagana Umara...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum has postponed his scheduled commissioning of projects across LGAs in southern Borno, to honour the Commander, 28 Task Force Brigade, Chibok, Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkusu and three soldiers who died on Saturday. The gallant fallen heroes died during a battle with...
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...