With Monday’s deployment of 19 commissioners to various ministries in Borno State, a total of six professors currently serve under the administration of Professor Babagana Umara Zulum as Governor. The latest addition is Professor Mohammed Arab Alhaji who was deployed as commissioner of health, making him the first Prof (at...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has inaugurated a summit aimed at reforming the Almajiri education system, a traditional Islamic method of learning widely obtained across states in northern Nigeria. The event held at the conference hall of Musa Usman Secretariat was graced by education stakeholders, religious leaders, and community advocates...
Nigerians all over applaud Zulum, Registrar says Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has directed the allocation of land for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB’s) computer-based test center in Maiduguri. Zulum gave the directive on Thursday, when he received the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede at the...
Adamawa residents Thursday afternoon thronged Lamido Aliyu Mustafa International Airport, Yola to welcome Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri back home after 2 weeks of vacation. Among others at the Airport were Deputy Governor Prof Kaletapwa Farauta, Commissioners, legislators, and Party stakeholders among others. Governor Fintiri while Speaking with newsmen in an interview...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has launched an empowerment package worth N1,000,000,000 targeting thousands of young residents, mostly GSM repairers and technicians. The initiative targets 1,050 youths who will be trained on phone repairs and maintenance; about 3,000 other apprentices will receive cash. Each of them will receive a...
Launches Borno’s E-commerce Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Friday in Maiduguri, launched the 2021 Nationwide Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) provided by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, (SMEDAN). 2,160 entrepreneurs benefitted from the scheme with each getting N50,000 to enable small scale entrepreneurship combined with...
Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has emphasized the significance of bringing people from rural areas close to government, saying his administration has already developed the agricultural policy of the state. Mohammed was speaking today in Abuja during the workshop organized by Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) where he...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Saturday reopened Gamboru International cattle market which was closed for about 7 years as a result of Boko Haram insurgency.   The market is located in Gamboru, a commercial border town in Ngala Local Government Area (LGA) within Borno Central.   Gamboru shares border with Cameroon and has...
To employ 5,000 teachers Borno State will, this year, commence afternoon primary and secondary education system to address problems of congestion and increase enrollment of out-of-school children. The state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, announced this on Monday in Maiduguri during his inauguration speech after taking an oath of office...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday ordered the release of N12.2m as an addition to a need-based intervention of the Victims Support Fund (VSF), to families of 61 district heads killed by Boko Haram since 2009 across the State. The VSF, a public and private funded humanitarian body...