Zulum Retains CoS, Names Ex Minister As SSG

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has approved the appointment of Nigeria’s former minister of state for agriculture and rural development, Malam Bukar Tijani as Secretary to the Borno State Government.

The governor has also reappointed Professor Isa Hussaini Marte as his Chief of Staff.

The two appointments were announced by the Governor’s spokesman Malam Isa Gusau in a statement issued on Wednesday.

The statement noted that Zulum considered Tijani’s very high level experience from his services as minister from July, 2011 to September, 2013 and as Assistant Secretary-General/Assistant Director-General (ASG/ADG) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

Through both offices and other national positions such as being the national coordinator for Nigeria’s National programme for Agriculture and Food Security as well as his coordination of the World Bank’s Fadama project, the former minister visited about 50 countries for different official engagements and he made significant contributions to the development of agriculture and food security in Nigeria, Africa and at the global level.