{"id":79891,"date":"2025-12-09T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79891"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:01:50","slug":"zulum-reaffirms-support-for-borno-students-nigerian-refugees-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/09\/zulum-reaffirms-support-for-borno-students-nigerian-refugees-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Zulum Reaffirms Support for Borno Students, Nigerian Refugees in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has reaffirmed his administration\u2019s commitment to expanding educational opportunities for indigent Borno students and Nigerian refugees in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Zulum made the announcement during a visit to the University of Maroua in Cameroon\u2019s Far North Region, where he inspected a nearly completed 500-seat lecture theatre funded by the Borno State Government.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is designed to serve both Nigerian students and refugees displaced by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>The visit followed a trip to the Minawao refugee camp, home to over 12,000 Nigerians from Gwoza Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Zulum said the initiative aligns with Borno\u2019s post-conflict rebuilding strategy, stressing that \u201cno young person should abandon education simply because insurgency pushed them across borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also pledged to expand scholarships for affected students and explore increasing the number of Borno students at the University of Maroua.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Idrissou Alloum, described Zulum\u2019s efforts as an \u201cunprecedented gesture\u201d strengthening cross-border educational access and regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Students welcomed the Governor\u2019s engagement, praising his inspection of facilities and responsiveness to their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Zulum was accompanied by Cameroon\u2019s Far North Governor, Mijinyawa Bakari; Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume; Gwoza representative Hon. Abdullahi Buba Abatcha; and senior Borno and Cameroonian officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has reaffirmed his administration\u2019s commitment to expanding educational opportunities for indigent Borno students and Nigerian refugees in Cameroon. Zulum made the announcement during a visit to the University of Maroua in Cameroon\u2019s Far North Region, where he inspected a nearly completed 500-seat lecture theatre funded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79893,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891\/revisions\/79893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}