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Zulum hands over 81 apartments, N79m to 81 medical doctors
Zulum hands over 81 apartments, N79m to 81 medical doctors
By: Babagana Wakil
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday in Maiduguri, handed over 81 units of three-bedroom apartments along with cheques worth a total of N79m to 81 resident medical doctors.
Each of the doctors was given a tastefully built flat at a quarters specifically built for doctors in 13 blocks of two-storey buildings with each block having six flats. Quarters was fully fenced, landscaped, flowered, and provided with sporting facilities and playground.
The 13 blocks at the quarters have combined number of 78 flats, while another storsy building sited at Muhammadu Shuwa memorial hospital has three additional flats, making 81 flats.
Two out of the 81 flats were fully furnished, while 79 were yet to be furnished.
Zulum presented cheques worth N1m as furniture support to 79 doctors who were allocated the 79 unfurnished flats.
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One of the beneficiaries of the 81 flats was Dr. Bulama Gaidam, currently under the captivity of the ISWAP terror group.
Gaidam was abducted on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 in Gubio, where he was serving as Principal Medical Officer of the General Hospital.
Governor Zulum handed over keys of one of the two fully furnished flats.
Speaking to wife of the abducted doctor, Zulum consoled her and strengthened her hope to one day reunite with her husband.
The Governor assured all the 81 doctors who benefitted that Government will make some efforts to support them in powering a standby generator installed for the quarters.
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He however urged the doctors to form a residents’ association through which they can make contributions to find ways of sustaining facilities at the estate, and enhancing their communal safety.
Zulum promised that more doctors who were not among the 81 beneficiaries will be supported in other ways of Government’s continued drive to improve the welfare of medical doctors for better service delivery that saves and improve human lives.
It would be recalled that the doctors quarters was commissioned by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on February 24, 2022, after which modalities were put in place for consultative selection and allocation to benefiting doctors.
The VP commissioned the flats while in Maiduguri to launch Borno’s edition of the Federal Government’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic.
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Meanwhile, during his hand over of the 81 flats and cheques to the medical doctors, Governor Zulum directed the provision of two buses for permanent stationing at the quarters for transporting them to hospitals for healthcare services.
In their appreciation, a representative of the medical doctors pledged that they will reciprocate by improving their medical services to patients at their respective hospitals.
Zulum hands over 81 apartments, N79m to 81 medical doctors
Zulum Approves N1.3bn Scholarship for 997 Nursing, Midwifery Students in Borno
By: Michael Mike
Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has approved N1.3 billion scholarship for 997 nursing and midwifery students who are indigenes of the state.
According to a statement on Wednesday, the scholarship programme received about 1,080 nominations, 40 from each of the 27 local government areas of the state, but after an entrance examination, 997 applicants passed and qualified to benefit from the scholarship.
Zulum, while launching the scholarship programme on Wednesday at the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Maiduguri, noted that with the scholarship, the beneficiaries would, on graduation, bridge the workforce demands in the state’s healthcare service delivery due to the increasing population growth.
He said: “The government has allocated a total of ₦1,305,189,000 for scholarships, with a breakdown of ₦124,149,000 earmarked for tuition fees.
“The remaining ₦1,181,040,000 will be disbursed as a monthly stipend of ₦30,000 to each beneficiary throughout their studies.”
Zulum further stated that his administration was constructing two colleges of nursing, one in the northern part of the state and the other one in the southern part.
He assured that the two colleges would be completed and opened for academic activities this year.
Highlighting the government’s efforts, the Commissioner for Education, Engineer Lawan Wakilbe, disclosed that from May 29, 2019 to date, Zulum’s administration had approved over N6 billion for scholarship with N2.7 billion of that amount approved from May 29, 2023 to date.
Meanwhile, the governor has awarded N201 million bursary allowance to 2,010 students of the Maiduguri College of Nursing who had not benefited from the scholarship.
The governor directed that each of the 2,010 nursing and midwifery students be credited with the bursary allowance of N100,000.
Zulum also commissioned a lecture theatre complex and a 3,000 people-capacity multipurpose hall for the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Maiduguri.
The governor also announced automatic employment for the 997 beneficiaries and other nursing students who had excelled academically, on completion of their studies.
In a related development, the Nursing Council of Nigeria (NCN) has commended Borno State for his commitment to improving nursing practice in the state, noting that the scholarship awarded by the governor on Wednesday was the first of its kind and so far the largest in Nigeria.
The Registrar of the Council, Dr Farouk Umar Abubakar, who was represented by the Director of Standard and Accreditation, Alhassan Ndagi, gave the commendation while delivering a goodwill message at the flag-off of the N1.3 billion scholarship for nursing and midwifery students in Maiduguri.
The register applauded the performance of the nursing students from Borno, stating that every year at the national examinations, students from Borno score more than 90 percent.
Zulum Approves N1.3bn Scholarship for 997 Nursing, Midwifery Students in Borno
Army rescues another Chibok girl, Lydia Simon in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
Another Chibok girl, Lydia Simon, has been rescued by troops of Operstion Desert Sanity III, North East Operation Hadin Kai.
She was rescued along with her three children by the troops of 82 Division Task Force Battalion in Ngoza LGA, on Wednesday April 17, 2024.
Intelligence Sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region, that Lydia who was on serial number 68 among the abducted missing girls escaped from the camp of Ali Ngulde in Mandara Mountain where she was held in captivity for several years
She surrendered to troops of 82 Division Task Force Battalion at Ngoshe in Gwoza LGA. The rescued Chibok girl was five months pregnant and claimed she was from Pemi Town in Chibok.
April 14, marks the 10th anniversary of the violent abduction of 276 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents.
While 57 of the girls escaped from their captors in the following days, 16 were later rescued and 107 have at different times been released through negotiations.
The Federal government, state and the Nigerian Army have pledged its commitment toward rescuing the rest of the abducted girls that are still held in captivity by the terrorists.
Army rescues another Chibok girl, Lydia Simon in Borno
10 Feared Dead, 20 injured In Borno As Motorists Climb ISWAP IEDs
By: Zagazola Makama
A commercial vehicle traveling on the Baga road in Kukawa LGA of Borno has reportedly exploded, killing 10 passengers and injuring 20.
Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the lake Chad region, that the vehicle exploded after running into a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Wednesday.
The IED was believed to have been laid for the troops of Sector 3 Operation Hadin Kai, around the Mosquito camp by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
The injured victims were taken to Monguno where they are receiving treatment.
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