By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has congratulated Barrister Zannah Mustapha for winning CNN Hero Award, after being named as one of 10 men and women that has made huge impacts to humanity, around the world.
Zulum, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, described Zannah’s naming as a great honour, not only to him but to all people of Borno State, the northeast and Nigerians as a whole.
Zulum said Bar. Zannah’s philanthropic educational support to orphans and less privileged children through the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation, is worth the highest recognition in the world, and said by Allah’s grace, that singular act will earn him Aljanna Firdaus in the hereafter.
The Governor called on other citizens, especially those with means, to find ways of making selfless contributions through opportunities that may not necessarily involve funding.
He noted that with Borno’s peculiar situation, there are opportunities for citizens with specialize skills to offer voluntary services in the form of school teaching, counselling or mentorship, to persons in need of support.
Barrister Zannah, the proprietor of Future Prowess Islamic Foundation school, has for many years, been providing free education to children orphaned by Boko Haram insurgency, regardless of their parental backgrounds.
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