Borno State
Mass transit: Zulum launches 610 taxis, tricycles, buses in Maiduguri, Gives N50m to 1,000 operators
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has launched 610 taxis, tricycles and buses to enhance urban mass transportation in Maiduguri and parts of Jere and Konduga Local Government Areas which fall under the metropolis. Zulum arrived Maiduguri after his presidential press briefing in Abuja today, Thursday, and drove from the airport to Ramat Square in […]
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Resettlement: Zulum, Yahaya attend as Buhari inaugurates presidential committee on Northeast’s refugees, IDPs
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, alongside his colleague, the Governor of Gombe, Inuwa Yahaya, were in attendance on Wednesday, when President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-East of Nigeria. Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said in a statement that […]
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OPERATION HADIN KAI: Troops eliminates Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists, capture equipment in Yobe, Borno
Troops of 120 Task Force Battalion, Sector 2, Joint Task Force (JTF), North East(NE) Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) in consolidating on their operational feat against Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State West Africa Province Terrorists (ISWAP) have eliminated the criminal elements in a fierce encounter at Goniri, Yobe State on Saturday 29 January 2022. […]
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Professor Zulum and his ‘empty seat of power’
By Isa Gusau From the most part of March 2020 to date, I have observed that Borno’s governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, abandons the executive red chair, and desk in his main office at the Government House in Maiduguri. So far, Prof has left that elegant ‘seat of power’ largely idled for nearly two years. […]
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Zulum flags-off N11.5 billion works for 10 major roads, bridges
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday, flagged-off N11.5 billion worth of construction works for eight major roads and two bridges cited in key parts of Maiduguri, the state capital. A Chinese construction company, Eighteenth Engineering Company (EEC) and a Borno-based construction company, Obtuse Tech Engineering Company Limited, both of which are […]
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Chibok Attack: Zulum visits communities, meets families of 24 abducted persons
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was in Chibok town on Monday following a recent attack on three communities: Kawtakare, Korohuma and Pemi  in the LGA. The Governor met families of 22 women and two men abducted by Boko Haram/ISWAP during the attack. Zulum invited relatives from the three affected communities made up of men and women […]
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Postgraduate: Again, Zulum’s media strategist, Isa Gusau, bags distinction at UK University
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum’s Special Adviser on Public Relations and strategy, Malam Isa Gusau, yesterday obtained Masters’ Degree (MA) in Media and Public Relations with the highest classification of Distinction at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Unlike Nigerian Universities which only classify graduate degrees, UK Universities classify Masters degrees starting […]
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French Ambassador meets Zulum, to partner on Agriculture, Education
The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Emmanuelle Bultmann said her country plans to partner with Borno State on development of agriculture, education, and the resettlement of IDPs. Amb. Bultmann announced this on Wednesday when she paid a courtesy visit to Governor Babagana Umara Zulum at the Borno State Liaison office in Abuja. The Ambassador […]
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Zulum visits water minister, identifies areas of fund-raising for Hawul Basins
Borno State Governor, Engineer Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday visited the Minister of Water Resources, Engineer Suleiman Adamu, at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. During the meeting which lasted for about an hour, Zulum noted that funds could be raised through collaborations with the United Nations regional stabilization facility, other foreign and Nigerian based […]
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Zulum Inaugurates Borno’s Advisory Committee on Governance and Development
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Saturday inaugurated the Borno State Advisory Committee on Governance and Development, aimed at creating people’s inclusiveness and opportunity of control over their affairs. The Committee is headed by Ambassador Usman Sarki as the Chairman. Others are; Alh. Muhammad Mustapha Bintube, Hajja Kaka Suleiman Gumsuri, Alh. Musa Kida, […]
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