Health, education, economic dev top Zulum’s ₦584.76bn 2025 Budget
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has presented the 2025 Budget, titled the "Budget of Recovery and Continuity," with a total sum of ₦584.76 billion aimed at consolidating the state’s developmental strides.
Zulum bans metal scavenging in Borno
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has announced the banning of metal scavenging in the state.
This is even as there was pandemonium on Monday as a popular crime group known as “Marlia boys clashed in Maiduguri, burning shops and injuring many.
Zulum releases 312 tractors to 312 wards, launches subsidized fertilizer
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday approved the release of 312 tractors for allocation to farmers’ cooperatives in each of the 312 wards across Borno’s 27 local government areas.
Shettima’s emergence as VP will reduce my burden in running Borno – Zulum
Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno says the emergence of Alhaji Kashim Shettima as incoming vice-president would help to reduce his administration’s burden as Borno recovers from insurgency. Zulum made the declaration in Maiduguri on Friday at a Sallah luncheon for stakeholders graced by the vice-president-elect. The governor said with the incoming vice-president, the government and […]
Borno Governorship: Zulum wins landslide with 85% votes
Borno Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has secured 85% of votes after collation was concluded across the 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Zulum visits families of slain fishermen in Borno
The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Friday, paid condolence visits to families of over 30 fishermen killed by Boko Haram insurgents.
Zulum’s loyalists dump APC for Labour Party in Borno
By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Scores of All Progressives Congress, APC faithful from Northern Borno, Friday defected to the Labour Party (LP) barely two weeks to the 2023 general elections. Receiving the decampees at NLC’s Multi-Purpose Hall amid funfair in Maiduguri on Friday, the acting secretary of LP in Borno State, Ishaku Yakubu said the defectors […]
My life or his publicity? When Zulum made a call
By Isa Gusau OUR boss, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, my family, and my closest friends wouldn’t like what I am about to publicly reveal. I deeply apologise. Last week, I had a surgery at Max Multi Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, India. The surgery, which doctors categorise as “high risk’ was around my chest wall […]
Zulum hails Germany’s govt intervention in Northeast humanitarian crisis
By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum on Monday said that without the intervention of Germany’s Government in the Northeast humanitarian crisis, thousands of youths in Borno State would have joined Boko Haram and ISWAP. He was responding to remarks by the German Foreign Affairs Minister, Annalena Baerbock, who paid an […]
Zulum appoints Mshelia, Kyari as new heads for REB, healthcare agency
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the appointments of Dr Lawi Auta Mshelia as Acting Executive Director, Borno State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) and Engr Abba Kyari, as General Manager of Borno State Rural Electrification Board (REB).
Zulum hands over 81 apartments, N79m to 81 medical doctors
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday in Maiduguri, handed over 81 units of three-bedrooms apartments along with cheques worth a total of N79m to 81 resident medical doctors.
