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The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has announced that 5,000 Nigerians refugees have been repatriated to the state from Cameroon.
According to a statement on Zulum’s Facebook page, the handing over took place on Monday and was led by Cameroon’s Minister for Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, and other officials of his country.
The returnees were part of thousands of Nigerians, mostly from Borno, who since 2014, fled in batches to Minawao camp located in Mokolo, far north region of Cameroon, to escape Boko Haram’s killings.
The statement said, “Cameroonian officials, led by Minister for Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji have repatriated and handed over first batch of 5,000 Nigerian refugees to Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum.
Repatriation: Cameroon hands over 5,000 Nigerian refugees to Borno governor
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February 16, 2021
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has presented a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree certificate to Mrs Lu’ubatu Umar Aliyu, who had been abandoned in Egypt by the Government of Bauchi State.
Aliyu, a student of Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, newsmen learned, was among 23 students in Bauchi awarded scholarships to study medicine by the Isa Yuguda administration in 2012.
Aliyu, who finished her studies about four years ago, had her certificate withheld because the succeeding government in Bauchi State did not meet her financial obligations to the Ain Shams University.
Succour, however, came the way of Aliyu when Governor Babagana Umara Zulum visited Egypt and offset the fees as a result of the intervention of the Nigerian Embassy in Egypt under the leadership of the Charge d’Affaires, Bashir Ibrahim Ma’Aji.
Just in: Zulum sacks Borno health commissioner
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Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum
Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has relieved the Commissioner of Health, Dr Salihu Kwaya-Bura of his position.
The sack is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the governor on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau.
Gusau said the removal was part of measures to reposition the ministry.
”The governor has directed his Chief of Staff, Isa Marte, a Professor of pharmacology and fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science with specialty in cancer research, to oversee the affairs of the ministry pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Chief of Army Staff, COAS Lieut.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says the military will soon put an end to the insurgency ravaging the North East and operations of the terrorists will be a thing of the past.
He disclosed this during the Pulling Out Parade held in his honour at the Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja on Friday.
“Let me thank my governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. He has been supportive to me and of course, the Nigerian Army, especially in the fight against insurgency,” Buratai said.
“He came with a unique leadership and I assure you, collectively, the Nigerian Army and the Borno State Government will end this insurgency within the shortest possible time.
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