Calls Zulum 'Hope Renewed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday in Maiduguri commissioned a fleet of 107 gas and electric-powered buses as well as taxis at Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s metro transport scheme program. The scheme, in its second phase, is one of the efforts of Governor Babagana Zulum to cushion effects of fuel subsidy withdrawal. The commissioning ceremony took place around the Shehu of Borno’s Palace. President Tinubu was in Maiduguri for this year’s Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference, but he took time to commission Zulum’s vehicles, after paying homage to the Shehu, Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin El-kanemi. In his remark at the commissioning, Zulum said: “Mr President, after you announced the subsidy removal and your consequent directive to governors to provide immediate palliative, in Borno State we decided to invest massively in a mass transit scheme. ”Each of the 107 vehicles was converted to use electricity and gas to enable the use o...