Borno State
NEDC Master Plan: ZULUM calls for shift from short-term interventions to long-term projects in the North East
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has called on the North-East Development Commission (NEDC), as well as humanitarian and development stakeholders to start shifting their focuses on interventions across the North-East from short term humanitarian interventions to undertaking medium and long term capital projects and programmes that can hugely impact on addressing the […]
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Zulum in Monguno, enrolls 4,229 IDP orphans, others in mass school admissions, Targets 7,000 children in first phase
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, traveled to Monguno on Sunday where he led the enrollment of 4,229 school-aged children, amongst them were many orphans whose parents were killed during the Boko Haram insurgency in parts of Northern Borno. The exercise which led to the enrollment of 4,229 on Sunday, the first day, […]
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Media aides mark Zulum’s 53rd birthday with 3rd Verdict
Media aides, alongside social media associates, on Thursday unveiled a compendium, the 3rd Verdict, to celebrate the 53rd birthday of Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. The compendium’s Editor-in-Chief, who is also the Governor’s Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau, announced the unveiling via a statement. Gusau explained that the 3rd […]
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Borno Workers: NLC, TUC praise Zulum for paying N705 million leave grants last week
The organized labour, made up of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in Borno State, on Tuesday in Maiduguri, commended Governor Babagana Umara Zulum for last week’s release of N705 million to clear outstanding leave grant owed workers. In a joint statement, signed by the chairman of […]
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Zulum confirms some LEA teachers get less than N11,000
The reader may wish to start this conversation by searching on Google, a headline: “Borno teachers earn as low as N11,000 monthly, says Governor”. When that is done, search results will show a news story published on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) confirming that 10 months ago, […]
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Fertilizer Ban: Zulum visits 10 farms in four LGs, Promises liquid fertilizer
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday toured 10 farmlands in the outskirts of four local governments: Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Jere, Mafa and Dikwa to monitor farming activities. During the separate unscheduled visits, Zulum, a University Professor of irrigation farming, interacted with farmers, asking them of problems they face so he could address […]
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Boko Haram: Zulum visits Chad to honour 6,000 multinational forces
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, was at the headquarters of Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in N’Djamena, Chad, to honour over 6,000 gallant soldiers. The soldiers were honoured at a medals parade held by the MNJTF to celebrate over 6,000 troops for their gallantry in the fight against insurgency around the lake chad […]
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Zulum gifts N5m to Borno almajiri who fabricated ‘hand tractor’
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum yesterday, Wednesday, gifted the sum of five million Naira (N5m) to support the innovative skills a talented almajiri in Borno State, who fabricated a farming plough machine, manually pushed for tilling of farmlands towards planting. Ploughs are usually attached to tractors, other means of transport, or manually dragged in farms. […]
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Zulum allots 259 houses, N110 million to Borno police
… IGP calls Governor’s support enormous Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday in Maiduguri, announced government’s allocation of 259 houses and the release of N110m to the Nigerian Police Force in the state. Zulum made the announcement during the commissioning of Borno’s branch of the Nigerian Police Force Microfinance Bank (NPFM Bank). […]
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2023: Tinubu has made the wisest choice – Zulum
… ‘Shettima’s nomination personal to me’ … Says Tinubu chose someone who knows Nigeria … Thanks Buhari, Tinubu, APC Governors, Exco … Promises vigorous campaign Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has described the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as APC’s Vice Presidential candidate, as the wisest choice made by the party’s presidential […]
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