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Maiduguri Flood: City’s Worst Disaster in Decades, Over 1 Million Displaced, 30 People Confirmed Dead

By The Insight Team September 12, 2024 66 0

By Emmanuel Kwada A devastating flood in Maiduguri has resulted in a catastrophic situation, 30 people confirmed dead and over one million displaced with a dead body spotted floating in the Post Office area. Wild animals, including a displaced crocodile, have been found in residential areas, likely displaced from the Sanda Kyarimi Zoological Park. The […]Continue Reading

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Oversight: Zulum shows up 10pm at Bama hospital

By The Insight Team September 6, 2022 206 0

… Demands to know hospital’s problems … To spend days in Bama for humanitarian activities By Daniel Adaji Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram: Zulum inducts 1,000 hunters to secure farmers

By The Insight Team July 29, 2021 262 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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Borno’s journey in two years

By The Insight Team June 12, 2021 280 0

By Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum  Fellow citizens, It has been two years since we took the oath of office, following the overwhelming mandate you, the good people of Borno State, entrusted in us during the 2019 democratic transition. In these two years, we have together, witnessed continued turbulence even though in the midst of shared […]Continue Reading

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Gratuities: Zulum approves N12b to clear 4,862 unpaid retirees

By The Insight Team December 8, 2020 243 0

… Presents cheques to retirees  … N3b earlier released in 2019  Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday announced the release of N12 billion to clear gratuities owed 4,862 retirees who left the state and local government civil service from 2013 to 2017. Before today’s, Zulum had released N3 billion in June and September […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram: Leading northeast governors, Darius backs Zulum’s call for mercenaries

By The Insight Team December 2, 2020 321 0

Taraba State Governor, Ishaku Darius has declared support for Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s request that the federal reengages mercenaries to join the Nigerian armed forces in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram insurgents terrorizing Borno in particular, and some parts of the northeast. Darius spoke on Tuesday in Maiduguri when Governors of Adamawa, Ahmadu Fitiri, […]Continue Reading

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Chibok: Zulum orders rehabilitation of school where girls where abducted

By The Insight Team November 17, 2020 238 0

… Gov. shares N11m to 83 attacked families, inspects projects Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was in Chibok on Monday, during which he assessed and ordered the immediate rehabilitation of Government Secondary School, Chibok where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014. Although the defunct presidential committee on […]Continue Reading