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...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday commissioned 50 housing units constructed by Borno State Government to address shelter needs of junior staff at the University of Maiduguri. The project which started in December 2019 was part of the Governor Zulum’s intervention to UNIMAID whose major beneficiaries are indigenes of Borno...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday inaugurated a 14-Member Committee which he gave 30 days to develop an action plan for reformation of ‘Tsangaya (another name for ‘almajiri’) system of traditional Islamic education in Borno state. Khalifa Aliyu Ahmad Abdulfatahi, a famous cleric and leader chairs Zulum’s reform committee. Sheikh...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s led administration on Thursday, began the construction of a teaching hospital and a college of medical sciences to enable Borno State University eventually start the award of degree in medicine and surgery as well as other medical programmes. At Zulum’s honorary request, Nigeria’s Minister of Health,...
The Northern Governors Forum has inaugurated a Committee on Youth and Civil Society in order to enhance engagement towards tackling the challenges of the region. While parforming the inauguration in Kaduna, Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State Simon Bako Lalong said the setting up of the committee...
The Adamawa State Government has imposed a lockdown throughout the state for another period of 14 days with effect from midnight Friday, April 24 to May 8. The Director General, Media and Communications, Government House Yola, Solomon Kumangar, made this known in a statement. ’’Painful as the decision is, it is...
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has signed an Executive Order to enforce the restriction of movement order to contain the spread of Coronavirus in the state. This is contained in a statement issued by Humwashi Wonosikou, the Press Secretary to the governor, on Wednesday in Yola. The Adamawa State Government...
Yobe state Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni and his Deputy Idi Barde Gubana and other high ranking officials of Yobe State Government have donated 50% of their salaries to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The Hon. Commissioner for Information, Abdullahi Bego in a statement said the donation is a...
The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has spoken from his isolation after his diagnosis with coronavirus. Mr Mohammed was diagnosed of the virus on Tuesday following a test he requested. The governor reportedly asked for the test after the news filtered that Mohammed Abubakar, a son of former vice president Atiku...