Borno Students applaud Zulum’s educational intervention

The National Union of Borno State Students (NUBOSS) has applauded Governor Professor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State for his exemplary leadership and management of State human and materials resources in the past three years, particularly, his commitment and implementation of educational projects and payments of students state scholarships on home and abroad programmes.

The union also appreciated the role and concerns of the State Commissioner of Higher Education, Professor Mustapha Malumbe and the Executive Secretary, Borno State Scholarships Board (BSSB), Malam Bala Isa in the reconciliation processes of the lingering three years leadership tussles and disputes that rocked the affairs of the union.

The Interim Caretaker Committee Chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Alhaji Maidoki who stated on Friday at a press conference with journalists held at the Borno State Scholarships Board Conference Hall said the disputes had exposed the students to severe hardships and sufferings socially, economically and academically.

Maidoki however commended Governor Zulum for redoubling Borno indigene students Scholarship allowances for both local and international students, provision of breakfast food to pupils of primary schools across the State, constructed new mega schools, furnished classrooms and laboratories, built staff quarters, provided staff and students nurses among others.

He also appealed to all the state Indigene students in home and abroad studies or programs to eschew bitterness, forget about the past, embrace each other and unite themselves in the collective or overall interest of the union and progress of the students generally.

Maidoki assured a hitch free and fair election within two or three weeks as the 5-man Interim Caretaker Committee headed by Abdullahi Maidoki with Ibrahim Kaka Sheriff as Secretary has concluded discussions and plans have reached an advanced stage to release the election time table for the forthcoming union election which all students will participate to elect new executive members that will run the affairs of the union.

The Chairman further added that all the branches across the country and even abroad are intact and operational ad well recognized identifying with the leadership qualities and mediation pattern of the Executive Secretary of the Board which he said we’re worthy of emulation.