Chibok
Zulum unveils Chibok water project; opens schools in Damboa, Askira
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday night unveiled a water project with capacity to store and distribute one million, two hundred and fifty thousand litres of water at Mboa village in Chibok Local Government Area (LGA) of (southern) Borno State. Mboa village is located five kilometres away from Chibok town, headquarters of Chibok […]
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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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Borno Governor Receives Surrendered Chibok Schoolgirl, Reunites Her with Family
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Saturday in Maiduguri, received Ruth Ngladar Pogu, one of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted seven years ago at a Government Secondary School in Chibok. Boko Haram had attacked the school towards midnight on April 14, 2014, and abducted them. Ruth, alongside someone she was said to have […]
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Zulum Opens Health Centre, Technical College in Chibok; Inspects 500 Houses in Damboa
In continuation of his tour of southern Borno, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday commissioned a Government Technical College and a primary healthcare centre in Mbalala village of Chibok Local Government Area. Zulum departed Maiduguri on Sunday, passed the night in Chibok and commissioned the remodeled Government Secondary School, Chibok, moved to Damboa on […]
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Borno: Women Affairs minister Commissions Remodeled Chibok School where Girls were Kidnapped in 2014
Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, was today, (Monday), in Chibok, on the invitation of Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, where she commissioned Government Secondary School, Chibok, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014. The school was rehabilitated when Zulum gave approval on November 16, 2020, […]
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OPINION: Chibok schoolgirls: Pause as a parent, to imagine 2,549 days of pains
By Babagana Umara Zulum As a father of daughters, I can’t even imagine the pains of having one’s daughter held by terrorists for as long as seven whole years. However, I urge parents, especially anyone with a female child to pause for a while, no matter how brief, to imagine how it might feel […]
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Of students theft, banditry and the Negotiating Government
By Usman Abdullahi Koli From Chibok in Borno to Dapchi in Yobe, to Kankara in Katsina, Kagara in Niger and Jangebe in Zamfara, thousands of school pupils have been stolen. This act is carried out by known non-state actors who mostly negotiated and subsequently fetched out millions from governments. In Nigeria, more often than […]
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