{"id":7147,"date":"2021-01-22T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2021-01-22T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:48:29","slug":"in-biu-zulum-launches-2nd-phase-of-n1-billion-support-for-low-profile-entrepreneurs-shares-80-vehicles-keke-napep-bans-political-thuggery-warns-politicians-breeding-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"In Biu, Zulum launches 2nd phase of N1 billion support for low-profile entrepreneurs    &#8230; Shares 80 vehicles, keke napep &#8230; Bans political thuggery\u00a0 &#8230; Warns politicians breeding thugs\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In Biu, Zulum launches 2nd phase of N1 billion support for low-profile entrepreneurs<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8230; Shares 80 vehicles, keke napep<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8230; Bans political thuggery<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8230; Warns politicians breeding thugs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday in Biu, flagged off a second phase of economic support for small and medium enterprises in three local government areas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A total of N1b naira was set aside for disbursement to about 5,000 entrepreneurs from six local governments of Biu, Gowza, Ngala, Monguno, Mobbar and Maiduguri Metropolitan Council.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Borno State Government in collaboration with the Bank of industry, equally raised N1b for disbursement to entrepreneurs in form of interest free loans. Each party brought N500m.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7150\" src=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_59220-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_59220-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_59220-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_59220.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aside launching the economic support in Biu, Zulum distributed over 80 commercial vehicles and tricycles (Keke Napep) to different beneficiaries as part of social protection and livelihood support.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While making a remark, Zulum charged the beneficiaries to make proper use of the empowerment package distributed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7149\" src=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_2841-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_2841-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_2841-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_2841.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Governor also said, any of the beneficiaries that repays 50% of the total amount he received in three years, government will wave the remaining 50%.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Before reaching Biu, Zulum in December 2020, disbursed N154m to various entrepreneurs within Maiduguri. Before them, in January 2020, N515m was disbursed in &#8216;cash for work\u2019 programme in which 2,862 members of \u201cEcomog\u201d, an outlawed political political thuggery group, were paid N30,000 each month for a half of the year. The youths received payments for cleaning the streets. Earlier in December 2019, N384m was distributed to empower street beggars in preparation to ban street begging.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7151\" src=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_41108-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_41108-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_41108-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210122_41108.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Zulum bans political thuggery in Biu<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In another development, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has extended his ban on political thuggery to Biu. Zulum has since 2019 stopped political thuggery where it was a major menace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Going tough on Biu, the governor directed security agencies to arrest anyone parading his or herself as political thug to terrorize citizens.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The Commissioner of Police, the Director SSS, and all the security establishment are hereby directed to arrest anyone that paraded himself as ECOMOG as from 6:00 am tomorrow.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also said, &#8220;any politician who is sponsoring such thugs shall be dealt with accordingly.&#8221; Zulum said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Biu, Zulum launches 2nd phase of N1 billion support for low-profile entrepreneurs &#8230; Shares 80 vehicles, keke napep &#8230; Bans political thuggery &#8230; Warns politicians breeding thugs Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday in Biu, flagged off a second phase of economic support for small and medium enterprises in three local government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Biu, Zulum launches 2nd phase of N1 billion support for low-profile entrepreneurs  ... 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