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Oversee the state's healthcare system, including primary healthcare delivery and workforce integrity.

Served through the period in which a ghost-staff and fake-certificate audit uncovered irregularities in the health workforce; comprehensive independently verified sector-outcome data was not identified for this entry.

Manage state fiscal policy, including IGR growth and budget preparation.

Served during a period of steady IGR growth and rapidly rising state budgets, from ₦340.5bn (2024) to over ₦890bn (2026); independently verified individual performance assessment was not identified for this entry.

Drive the administration's agricultural recovery and food-security programme for returning IDPs and rural communities.

Served through a period of continued agricultural promotion as part of the state's post-insurgency economic recovery; comprehensive independently verified outcome data was not identified for this entry.

Oversee budget preparation and economic planning, including the state's Medium Term Expenditure Framework.

Served through a period of rapid budget growth and the production of the state's 2025-2027 MTEF; independently verified individual performance assessment was not identified for this entry.

Oversee women's affairs and social development policy, including programmes for female IDPs and returnees.

Served through a period of continued focus on gender-responsive resettlement support; comprehensive independently verified outcome data was not identified for this entry.

Coordinate government engagement with religious institutions and interfaith affairs.

Served through the standard term; independently verified sector-specific outcome data was not identified for this entry.

Lead the ministry directly responsible for rebuilding insurgency-damaged infrastructure and resettling displaced persons — a portfolio Zulum himself held under a previous governor.

Served during a period of continued camp closures and large-scale reconstruction, delivering a substantial share of the administration's roughly 1,195 cumulative development projects; independently verified individual performance assessment was not identified for this entry.

Coordinate relations between the state government, local governments, and federal agencies operating in Borno.

Served through the standard term; independently verified sector-specific outcome data was not identified for this entry.

Oversee youth development, sports, and poverty-alleviation programmes, including vocational training initiatives.

Served through a period in which the administration expanded vocational enterprise institutes and second-chance schools; independently verified individual performance assessment was not identified for this entry.

Serve as the government's chief spokesperson on public information and internal security matters.

Publicly represented the government in June 2026 in clarifying the ₦4 billion Maiduguri rail-project allegation, characterising the project's reported completion as an administrative error rather than executed work.