Mr Zulum said the security agencies, including the Nigerian Army and the police, are giving their desired cooperation to the state to protect lives and property.
He said this would further help to reduce excess pressure on the road and infrastructure within the zone.
In February, the market was completely gutted by fire in a midnight inferno that destroyed goods worth billions of naira.
Mr Tar said street begging and aimless loitering were not part of the culture of the Borno people.
“But the truth is that Borno has been peaceful. Of course, we are still in the insurgency; it hasn’t stopped.
The couple had some domestic disputes over an alleged extra marital affair by the husband before the wife’s murder.
The beneficiaries comprised 15,000 male heads of households, each receiving a 25kg bag of rice and 10kg bag of beans, and 25,000 females receiving N5,000 cash and a wrapper each.
The managing director said similar gestures had been extended to many regional hospitals.
The training was conducted to strengthen over 1,000 community WASH committees in rural areas of the state.
Due to the fragile security situation, the Borno government has banned all mining activities in the state.
