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Mass transit: Zulum launches 610 taxis, tricycles, buses in Maiduguri

By Ele Ifah Sunday 195 0
… Gives N50m to 1,000 operators … Targets 3,200 beneficiaries 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 in Maiduguri after his presidential press briefing in Abuja […]Continue Reading
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Zulum flags-off N11.5 billion works for 10 major roads, bridges

By Ele Ifah Sunday 163 0
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 Continue Reading
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Askira-Uba Attack: Zulum lauds military for resilience; empathizes over loss

By Ele Ifah Sunday 173 0
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has commended the Nigerian military for putting up a strong resilience in a battle with fighters from the Islamic State of West Africa Province, who launched attacks on a military base in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of southern Borno State, on Saturday morning. Governor Zulum, in a statement by […]Continue Reading
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Zulum approves more doctors’ quarters, 20 additional nurses, midwives

By Ele Ifah Sunday 147 0
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday visited two hospitals in Maiduguri to monitor the implementation of the ongoing health sector reforms he ordered, to address challenges across the State. The Governor was at Maryam Abacha Maternal Hospital where he ordered the construction of permanent quarters for doctors and other health workers. Zulum also […]Continue Reading
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Boko Haram: Zulum inducts 1,000 hunters to secure farmers

By Ele Ifah Sunday 167 0
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 the outskirts of Jere, where over 70 farmers were killed in November 2020 as well […]Continue Reading
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Women Affairs minister Commissions Remodeled Chibok School where Girls were Kidnapped in 2014

By Ele Ifah Sunday 156 0
… Chibok Gets 200 Resettlement Houses, New Lodge  Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, was in Chibok, at 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 […]Continue Reading
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Zulum Approves N100m Take Off Grant for Recently Approved Federal Polytechnic, Monguno

By Ele Ifah Sunday 151 0
… Academics to Begin October  Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the release of N100m to assist in the take-off of Federal Polytechnic, Monguno, which was recently approved by the Federal Government. Zulum announced on Thursday when he received the rector of the polytechnic, Professor Garba Mohammed Ngala at the Government House, […]Continue Reading
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Zulum emerges University of Ibadan alumnus of the year; also wins most distinguished alumnus award

By Ele Ifah Sunday 174 0
… ‘It’s a challenge to do more’ says Governor Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Saturday emerged University of Ibaban’s alumnus of the year 2020, the fifth since 1973; and a distinguished alumnus award. The decision to recognize Zulum was reached by all-time graduates of the University from all parts of the […]Continue Reading
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Borno Governor, Zulum, wins 2019 Zik prize for leadership

By Ele Ifah Sunday 210 0
… Becomes the first governor to win during the first term … Formal presentation to hold Dec 6 Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum had emerged a winner of the 2019 Zik prize for leadership, as announced by Pat Utomi, a professor of political economy on Thursday afternoon. Zulum, who was of eight winners of […]Continue Reading
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Aid workers’ execution: Zulum deeply pained, sends delegation to families

By Ele Ifah Sunday 138 0
…Says victims died as heroes Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, is deeply pained by insurgents’ execution of aid workers whom he described as heroes that were gruesomely killed in the course of serving humanity. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said in a statement released Thursday morning, that the Governor was informed of the execution on […]Continue Reading
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[Explainer] Why high turn-out in Borno elections despite 20 Boko Haram attacks

By Theophilus Abbah 209 0
The February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections showed a strikingly impressive voter turnout nationwide as some 955,205 citizens voted at the presidential election in Borno State. The March 9 Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections showed a strikingly depressive voter turnout nationwide; 1,298,027 citizens voted at the governorship election in Continue Reading
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