Spread the word The Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, Tuesday, distributed farm tools to farmers and commissioned a new High Islamic school in Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar local government area. Governor Zulum was accompanied Monday by the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, and the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari. Zulum’s agricultural intervention is to boost dry-season farming and enhance the livelihoods of returnees who are gradually resettling in the community. Zulum said: “From the beginning of this administration, dry season irrigation farming was adopted as a strategic component of the state’s food security framework. Recognising the limitations of rain-fed agriculture in the context of...