Buni List Accomplishments, Reveal 2025 Plans

The Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni on Thursday listed his government’s accomplishments across the various sectors and also disclosed future plans for the year 2025.

Represented by his deputy, Idi Barde Gubana, the governor expressed gratitude to government workers, members of the press, and other stakeholders for their contributions to the state’s progress.

The governor, during a press briefing, while further expressing gratitude to the private sector and other functionaries for their contributions to the state’s achievements in 2024, noted that despite economic challenges, the state made significant investments in healthcare, education, agriculture, wealth creation, and road construction.

Buni disclosed that “Yobe State won $500,000 in the primary healthcare leadership challenge for states in the North-East sub-region. The state also achieved 100 per cent payment of hazard allowances and adjusted CONMESS and CONHESS salary scales for healthcare workers.

“The state launched the largest agricultural empowerment support program, spending N15.3 billion on farm implements and inputs for 5,340 farmers across 178 wards.

The government also procured 475 modern sewing and embroidery machines, distributed 350 disability tricycles, and provided cash grants to micro and small entrepreneurs.”

On water supply, he revealed that the state awarded contracts for the conversion of 170 motorised boreholes to solar systems and drilled boreholes in major towns while on road construction, the government constructed and rehabilitated hundreds of kilometers of roads, including the Damaturu-Kalallawa dual carriage road and the Gujba-Ngalda road.

Buni assured the people of Yobe State that the government would continue to work towards making life more meaningful for them in 2025 and beyond. He emphasised the importance of strengthening security and improving the overall well-being of citizens.

The Yobe governor assured the residents that his government would continue to work towards making life more meaningful for them in 2025 and beyond, stressing the importance of strengthening security and improving citizens’ overall well-being.

He concluded with a call to action for all stakeholders to work together towards the development of the state.

In a welcome address, Abdullahi Bego, the Yobe State Ministry of Home Affairs, Information and Culture, expressed appreciation for the governor’s efforts in advancing the state’s causes, including improving living conditions, ensuring the protection of lives and property, and promoting prosperity and well-being.

“On behalf of the management and staff of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Information and culture, I want to express my deepest gratitude to His Excellency, the Executive, Hon Mai Mala Buni, who is also the Chairman Gujba, ably represented by his ever-loyal deputy, Hon. Idi Barde Gubana Wazirin Fune, for sparing the time to address this distinguished gathering of our state’s press and media community.

“This is the first time in as many years that His Excellency himself would avail us the opportunity to address this kind of end-of-year gathering.

“I also want to thank His Excellency for what he continues to do on behalf of the people of the state to advance the causes that his administration always stands for improving the people’s living conditions ensuring the protection of people’s lives and property and putting together the necessary building blocks that would ensure the prosperity and well-being of the people of the state well into the future.”

The Commissioner’s statement reads in part, “Your Excellency, ladies, and gentlemen, as I welcome you to this executive briefing by His Excellency the governor, let me also underscore a fact that we all know about – that throughout history, information is and has always been an indispensable factor in every form of responsible, progressive governance – It’s an important, catalyzing factor in political governance, economic governance, security governance.

“It is what ensures that no vacuum is allowed between what the government is doing on behalf of the people and what the people know about what the government is doing on their behalf. It builds confidence; it nurtures trust; it strengthens that unbreakable compact between the people and their government.

“On behalf of His Excellency the executive governor and the Yobe State Government, therefore, I want to extend my profound appreciation to the entire membership of Yobe’s media and journalism community for your partnership with the state government over the years and for what you continue to do as stakeholders and active participants in Yobe’s peace, security and prosperity.”

Bego maintained, “That Yobe State and indeed Nigeria as a whole cannot thrive and make any meaningful progress without peace and security and the participation of all citizens requires that the media always focuses attention on what brings the people together rather than what sets them apart. It follows, as a corollary, that media professionals, therefore, have a duty and an obligation to produce content that promotes the peace, security, and development of our state as a major plank of their editorial and journalistic exertions.

“Thankfully, this is something that members of the press community here are already doing and that I am confident they will continue to do.

“I am confident that with your support, the Yobe State Government, under the charismatic and indefatigable leadership of His Excellency Gov. Mai Mala Buni, in the months and years ahead, will continue to reach even more milestones and make an even bigger impact in the lives of the people of the state” he concluded.

The chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade Rajab Mohammed Ismael, assured the government of cordial working relationships and urged journalists to hold the government accountable for their responsibilities to the people.

“I am using the forum to assure the state government that journalists are always ready to report facts by the ethics of the profession,” he explained.