Tag: Babagana Zulum

‘Now Kashim Ibrahim University,’ Borno Renames Institution After Ex-Gov

Ganiyu Amodu

The Borno State Executive Council has approved the renaming of the state-owned university to Kashim Ibrahim University in honour of the first governor of the defunct Northern region. The decision was reached during the first State Executive Council meeting of 2025, chaired by Governor Babagana Zulum. The meeting, which ended Monday night at the Government House Council Chamber, lasted over six hours, as key issues affecting the state were discussed. Briefing journalists at the end of the meeting, Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Prof Usman Tar, revealed that the…

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2,340 APC Delegates Decide Tinubu, Osinbajo, Lawan Fate

Abibat Babalola

Fake delegates’ list emerges, stirs controversy, confusion among party members   Over 2,340 delegates of All Progressives Congress (APC) will Tuesday, (today) decide the fate of the party’s presidential aspirants. This is as president Muhammadu Buhari on Monday threw the contest open. The delegates from the 774 local government areas in the country and area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will cast their votes to elect a presidential candidate of the APC. Platforms Africa reports that fake delegate list emerged on Tuesday and was being shared when loyalists…

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BREAKING: Three top politicians die in Nigerian Borno Gov Zulum’s convoy

Dawood Rabiu

    Details have emerged on how three politicians who were on the convoy of Babagana Zulum, Governor of Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, died in an auto crash today. The crash occurred on their way back from Mafa, the Borno governor’s hometown. The late politicians, former governor of the state, Senator Kashim Shettima, APC’s caretaker chairman, Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly and other party faithfuls had arrived Mafa in Zulum’s motorcade for revalidation of his party membership in his local ward of Lamisula. Eyewitnesses told Channels Television that the politicians who were driving…

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