Zulum, who paid a visit to some of the hospitals tending to patients from the attack also said about 50 people sustained injuries.
Browsing: Babagana Zulum
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Sunday visited Dikwa Army Super Camp in Borno State, where he directed special troops to recover Marte and its environs within 48 hours.
After passing the night in the town, Zulum on Saturday shared N150 million as soft loans and grants to small and medium scale traders
Zulum, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau, announced the sack on Tuesday
Zulum made the pledge when he received Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Lucky Irabor, and other Service Chiefs, who paid him a courtesy visit on Sunday in Maiduguri.
As part of the military tradition in honouring a retiring Chief of Army Staff, the event involved a march past by the officers of the Nigerian Army.
The troops on Saturday laid ambush against the insurgents when they attempted to attack troops’ location at the outskirts of Marte on Saturday, killing dozens of them in seven gun trucks.
The information was contained in a statement by Malam Isa Gusau, the Governor’s Special Adviser on Communications and Strategy, on Friday in Maiduguri.
The chairman of the committee, Dr Shettima Kulima, made this known on Wednesday in Maiduguri while submitting the committee’s report to Gov. Babagana Zulum at the Government House.
Zulum said this on Monday when he visited Jakana, a town about 20km from the capital, Maiduguri, where about 35 commuters were abducted by Boko Haram on Friday
Abubakar spoke on Monday during a visit to the Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, to commiserate with him over the recent slaughtering of farmers by Boko Haram Terrorists.
Zulum said at the ceremony that the budget tagged “Budget of Recovery and Consolidation”, was higher than the 2020 figure of N134.5 billion, representing about N74.5 billion increase.
The said the cold-blooded murder of the innocent farmers, toiling to eke out a living for themselves and their families and provide food security for our nation was not only callous but satanic, Tinubu said.
Security was projected as one of President Buhari’s legacy issues. Incidentally, that – combined with people’s welfare – is the original purpose of government. Rediscovering that purpose while eschewing the temptation to offer excuses, is the way forward
Inaugurating the committee in Maiduguri, Zulum said that transforming the ‘Almajiri’ system was part of the state 25-year Development Plan, launched recently.
The governor, who stated this at the end of a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the State House, Abuja on Friday, also updated the president on the gradual return of peace to Borno State.
The poll, won by the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, used the mentimeter.com platform
Zulum said this on Tuesday in reaction to the speech of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, at the opening of the combined Chief of Army Staff Quarterly Conference in Maiduguri, Borno State, where he praised the Officers and Men of the Nigerian Army for the professionalism exhibited the Edo State governorship poll and charging them to do same in Ondo State on Saturday
A statement on Wednesday by NGF Head, Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, said the donation was made by the NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
Zulum was quoted in a statement as having said this when he hosted some governors in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Wednesday.