Urges farmers to cooperate with soldiers To reduce high cost of living caused by withdrawal of fuel subsidy, Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday, released 80 buses and pick up vans for free transportation of farmers from their communities to farmlands. The 80 means of transport will comprise...
Gifts N15m to mothers of benefitting orphans Raises allowances of CJTFs, others by 35% Gifts them end of year bonus Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday flagged-off a scholarship scheme worth three hundred million naira in support of 300 orphans whose parents died as volunteers under...
Says Shehu’s modesty makes anniversary less celebrated Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday led citizens to celebrate the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin Elkanemi, as he marked 13th year on the throne, since March 2009. In a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, the Governor...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday chaired the induction of 1,000 hunters freshly engaged to join existing ones in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram. The hunters are to provide dedicated protection to farmers who cultivate crops in outskirts of Jere, where over 70 farmers were killed in...
VP-Elect, others surround Zulum at declaration Borno Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has secured 85% of votes after collation was concluded across the 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) Zulum got 545,543 and left his closest opponent, Mohammed Ali Jajari of the PDP with...
Marte in Lagos for tomorrow night For the umpteenth time, Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has been declared Nigeria’s Governor of the Year, this time by Daily Champion Newspaper. Champion is of Nigeria’s prominent national dailies, established by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu from the southeastern part of Nigeria. Management and...
Zulum is exceptional, says Minister, others Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday launched Borno State’s Basic Healthcare Provision Fund, with the disbursement of N418m to 79 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across the State. Launch held at the Multipurpose Hall of the Government House in Maiduguri, with the participation of Zulum,...
A massive crowd of supporters trouped out on Tuesday afternoon across five wards of the highly populated Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC) during Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s campaigns for the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of February 25th presidential and national assembly elections. APC’s chairman, Ali Bukar Dalori described the massive...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday, announced he was raising the number of households being targeted for palliatives from 300,000 to 400,000 households. Each household will be made up of six family members to be multiplied by 400,000 which, by implication, moves Zulum’s new target to two million...
Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri Thursday has reopened the eight moribund technical skills acquisition centres built by the past administration of former governor Murtala Nyako. Fintiri, who performed the ceremony in Girei Local Government Area, said the decision to put the centres into use was informed by the commitment of his...