By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A cheque of N5m approved by Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has been presented to a private school to fund a scholarship for Musa Sani, a 13-year old talented Borno kid, who used mud to replicate the state’s first flyover around the...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Borno Central led by Governor Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, endorsed the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Kaka Lawan, as the sole candidate to contest for the Borno Central Senatorial election come 2023. The endorsement was...
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 Police Command has restricted vehicular movement during Eid-el-Kabir celebration in the state, except vehicles on essential services. The Command also imposed vehicular movement restriction in Maiduguri Metropolis and Jere Local Government Area during the Sallah celebration from 7:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m....
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 – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Monday sworn in Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo as Borno State Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Development at the Government House Council Chamber in Maiduguri. It will be recalled that Hajiya Gambo missed last week’s swearing-in ceremony because...
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 – The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Alhaji Meleh Kyari has said the new 50 mega watts Gas Power Plant under construction in Maiduguri will be completed by November 2022. Kyari stated this yesterday during an inspection tour at the site of the new 50MW...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted his technical working group’s report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The technical working group was set up by the Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of displaced persons in...
A total of 227 soldiers involved in the fight against insurgency within the North East of Nigeria have been brought before a General and Special Court Martial set up by the military, for various cases of misconduct. The Theater Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Christopher Musa disclosed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno Geographic Information Service (BOGIS) has demolished a supermarket built illegally on utility area and drainage along Abba Ashigar/Bama road, new GRA Maiduguri, the state capital. The agency also arrested the suspect and confiscated 28 refurbished big sizes of refrigerators constructed purposely for the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum led administration is currently constructing 13.34 kilometers of road and drainage network that comprises of ten roads within maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The 10 roads under construction are; dualising of Ahmadu Bello Way to Bama road junction, Shehu Sanda Kura...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno Police Command has rescued a woman who was abducted by four kidnappers along Misko Road Minna, Niger State on Saturday last week and handed the victim over to her husband and relations in Maiduguri at the police headquarters. The Borno Commissioner of Police,...
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...
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 – 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 – As part of the efforts in reaffirming the Nigerian Army’s commitment to enhancing the welfare of both serving and discharged personnel, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has on Saturday, 28 May, 2022 feted retirees to a valedictory buffet at...
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 – No fewer than thirty two (32) persons are believed to have been killed by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists around Mudu village, some 45 kilometers away from Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge LGA of Borno State, last weekend. Governor Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, confirmed the...