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Social protection: Zulum doles out N62.7m to 846 stores’ labourers
Social protection: Zulum doles out N62.7m to 846 stores’ labourers
By: Babagana Bukar
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday gave a total sum of N62, 750,000 to 846 elders and labourers providing services at Bolori Stores, a popular area in Maiduguri where trailers offload and move variety of wholesale food and non-food products from Borno to other parts of Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
The distribution was in continuation of Governor Zulum’s sustained economic packages aimed at enhancing livelihoods and building resilience of citizens as part of counter-insurgency measures.
Of the 846 beneficiaries, Zulum presented N100,000 each to 409 elderly low income persons operating around the stores, some of whom, for many years, have been into manual labour. The elders jointly received a total of N40.9 million.
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The governor also presented N50,000 each to 437 younger labourers made up of 387 men and 50 women. They jointly received a total of N21.8 million.
Zulum urged the recipients to use the cash for micro businesses with a view to increasing their sources of income.
He described the labourers as a highly productive population whose line of work helps in making available basic necessities needed by all categories of citizens across Borno State.
The Governor noted that their activities significantly contributed to the state’s economy, noting that many trailers arrive and depart Bolori Stores everyday to bring in food and non-food items into Borno State and move similar products to other parts of Nigeria and neighbouring countries. Such activities, Zulum said, contribute to the state’s economy.
The Commissioner for Sports and Youths Empowerment, Saina Buba, whose ministry coordinated the intervention, said Zulum had supervised similar empowerment programmes in different parts of the state.
One of the beneficiaries was full of gratitude to the governor, saying some of them were receiving such amounts for the first time.
The beneficiaries promised to make good use of the gesture.
Social protection: Zulum doles out N62.7m to 846 stores’ labourers
Communal clash over Marriage proposal, leaves several injured in Shani LGA, Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
A marriage proposal gone awry resulted in a communal clash in Shani local government area of Borno state, leaving several injured and prompting a heavy police intervention.
Security sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident, which occurred on june 11, 2025, was triggered when a young man, Mamaru from Kubo, accompanied by his friends, visited bargu community to propose marriage to Babaliya Hassan, 17, a resident of the area.
According to sources Babaliya laid a mat in front of her father’s compound to enable the couple’s families to celebrate their Union. however, some youths from Bargu opposed the marriage, insisting that outsiders should not take their women. this opposition escalated into a physical confrontation, forcing Babaliya to rush back into her compound while Mamaru and his friends retrieved their mats.
The situation appeared to calm down, but when the owners came back for their mats, Babaliya, in a show of resentment, allegedly used a pestle to attack Muhammad Isa, causing him grievous injuries, while another person, Shuaibu Ali, sustained minor injuries in the process.
The following day, which fell on bargu’s market day, the incident further spiralled into a communal conflict when youths from Kubo, upon learning about their friends’ injuries, came to Bargu on motorcycles in a suspected retaliatory attack. the conflict resulted in extensive chaos, during which a man, Friday Lado, who was riding toward the scene on his red boxer motorcycle, was attacked by Bargu youths, and his bike was set ablaze. in a show of resistance, the Bargu youths impounded six additional motorcycles belonging to the kubo youths. the conflict also injured a woman, Rukayya Buba, who was caught in the fracas.
It was further gathered that the Borno state police command, through its crack squad tactical team responded promptly, restored normalcy, and evacuated the injured victims to Shani General Hopsital for treatment. following their recovery, the injured were discharged, while the impounded motorcycles were handed over to the Shani division for safekeeping.
Communal clash over Marriage proposal, leaves several injured in Shani LGA, Borno
Boko Haram terrorists attack herder, rustle 28 livestock in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked a herder and rustled livestock in Burum Village bush area of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state, police authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
Zagazola Makama was reliably informed by sources that the incident occurred on June 9 at about 6:00 p.m. when the assailants, armed with machetes, attacked 20-year-old Riskuwa Ibrahim while he was grazing his herd.
The father of the victim, Ibrahim Buba, reported the incident stating that his son sustained grievous injuries to the head, hand, and back during the attack.
The terrorists reportedly made away with twenty-eight (28) sheep to an unknown destination.
He was rushed to the hospital where he was recovering.
Boko Haram terrorists attack herder, rustle 28 livestock in Borno
Father kills 17-year-old son in Yobe over unknown dispute
By: Zagazola Makama
A 17-year-old boy, Abdulra’uf Abdullahi, was allegedly stabbed to death by his father during a domestic dispute in Chirokusko Village, Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State.
Zagazola Makama gathered from sources that the tragic incident occurred at about 10:00 p.m. on Monday, June 9, when the father, identified as Danga Shiru Wanzam, reportedly attacked the teenager with a knife, stabbing him in the chest over an issue that has yet to be determined.
Police operatives who visited the scene rushed the victim to the General Hospital in Babbangida, where a medical officer on duty certified him dead on arrival
Community members have expressed shock over the incident, describing the deceased as a quiet and respectful youth.
Police sat efforts are ongoing to locate the suspect, who fled the area shortly after the incident.
Father kills 17-year-old son in Yobe over unknown dispute
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