Notwitwstanding recent killings of farmers and other attacks, statewide records on the 27 local government areas since 2011, indicate clearly that President Muhammadu Buhari has still performed better in handling of Borno’s security challenges, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has declared. Zulum stated this on Sunday, while addressing northern elders from...
The Arewa Consultative Forum, of the most prominent groups in notthern Nigeria, sent delegation to Maiduguri, which met Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum on Sunday. The delegation was led by the forum’s chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, who has held cabinet, and party leadership positions at the highest levels in...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Sunday received the Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the Government House, Maiduguri. Governor AbdulRazaq was in Maiduguri to commisserate with Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum and the people of Borno over the killing of farmers around Zabarmari. He was accompanied by Kwara Senators Dr. Ibrahim...
48 bereaved families of Zabarmari farmers killed last Saturday, today received N600,000 each and bags of food items from a committee assigned by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum to transparently convey external donations to the victims. The fund came from combined support of N20m by the northern governors forum, and N5m...
Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday received a Cameroonian military delegation led by the 4th region joint military commander, General Saly Mohammadou at the Government House, Maiduguri. He was accompanied by General Bouba Dobekreo, Commander Sector 1 Multinational Joint Task Force; Brigadier General Essoh Jules-Cesar, Commander Fourth Gendarmerie, GOC...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday listed 6 recommendations for consideration by President Muhammadu Buhari in response to the lingering Boko Haram crisis in the northeast. Zulum made the observation when Presidential delegation led by the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmed Lawan visited him on Tuesday...
Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was at Zabarmari early morning on Sunday, to lead kinsmen and other residents, still in shock, for the funeral of 43 farmers slaughtered by the Boko Haram insurgents. Though the victims lived in Zabarmari, a farming community in Jere Local Government Area,...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum travelled to Mafa town in Mafa local government area where he cast his vote amidst cheers from supporters. Zulum had on Friday during a statewide broadcast congratulated all political parties for playing the game according to the rules during the electioneering campaigns. The Governor...
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, who is chairman, Northeast Governors forum, today, at the forum’s third meeting ongoing in Jimeta, Yola, said governors in the region need take far reaching measures to ensure incidences of house kidnapping as reported in some states, does not extend to the northeast. Zulum...
A Sunday report by an online media, claiming there was another attack by Boko Haram on the convoy of Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, is false. There was neither an attack on the governor directly nor on any component of his convoy. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a...