Tag: Babagana Umara Zulum

  • Borno Governor, Zulum Dissolves Cabinet

    Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has approved the dissolution of the State Executive Council. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Usman Shuwa, announced the dissolution of the governor’s cabinet on Thursday, saying it was with immediate effect. The announcement was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Administration and…

  • Zulum celebrates Shehu of Borno’s 13th anniversary

    … Says Shehu’s modesty makes anniversary less celebrated Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday led citizens to celebrate the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin Elkanemi, as he marked 13th year on the throne, since March 2009. In a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, the Governor said the humility and…

  • Of Zulum And The Ex- Political Thugs

    By: Inuwa Bwala For over 20 years, lack of deliberate investment in the youths have compelled mist of them to seek for means of survival. The luckier ones had found their ways out, while the less lucky ones have become easy tools for recruitment into crime or political thuggery. By whatever name they were known,…

  • When Gov. Zulum And Senator Shettima Toured The Mine Fields

    By: Inuwa Bwala No matter the narrative others want to promote over the security situation in Borno, fact remains that relative peace has returned to areas hitherto vulnerable and inaccessible. Nowadays except for periodic encounters in the mop up exercises by the Military, the guns seem to be silent and life is returning to normal…

  • Professor Zulum and his ‘empty seat of power’

    By Isa Gusau From the most part of March 2020 to date, I have observed that Borno’s governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, abandons the executive red chair, and desk in his main office at the Government House in Maiduguri. So far, Prof has left that elegant ‘seat of power’ largely idled for nearly two years.…

  • Borno: In Zulum’s shoes, what else would you do?

    By Isa Gusau – August 10, 2020.   Before reacting to that question-headline, please, take a little while to walk in the ‘shoes’ of Borno governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum.   A few persons have been writing to condemn what they perceive as Zulum’s political incorrectness. They refer to the governor’s expression of concern over…