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ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman joined the flag raising ceremony attended by officials and employees on Monday morning, January 9 at the region's seat in Cotabato City.Governor Hataman encouraged the employees to sustain the good work and ensure an efficient service to the people, said a post by ARMM Bureau of Public Information on its FB page.

COTABATO CITY - FORMER Maguindanao Representative Simeon Datumanong today reiterated he has not endorsed any contractor to undertake projects funded with his Priority Development Assistance Program (PDAF).Atty.

COTABATO CITY --- Officials are optimistic they can nip Islamic militancy from the bud in five Moro provinces with P10.1 billion worth of infrastructure projects in 2017.Fanatical jihadists now spreading in isolated areas in these provinces are eloquently using poverty as pitch to undermine the government.A big amount from the grant is earmarked for various projects in isolated towns in Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur and Sulu where there are radical forces emerging in the fashion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.The three provinces are component areas of the Autonomous Region in Musli

COTABATO CITY– A total of P10.1 billion worth of infrastructure projects are expected to be implemented in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in 2017.Governor Mujiv Hataman and regional legislators signed Public Works Act of 2017 on Thursday, December 15, thatauthorizes the appropriation of P10.1 billion for infrastructure projects in ARMM.

MAGUINDANAO - The construction of Central Mindanao’s first ever P50 million drug reformatory center is in full swing and pledges of support to professionalize its operation keep pouring in.The center, now rising in Buluan town, the capital of Maguindanao, is a landmark project of the provincial government in support of the anti-narcotics campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte.Engineer Wahab Tunga, provincial administrator, on Sunday said construction workers are now busy laying the foundations of the permanent shelters and other structures in the reformatory complex.The project is being bank

MARAWI CITY (PNA) -- Moslem leaders were backing the raid of the compound of the Maute Group in Marawi City, a top official of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) in Northern Mindanao said Thursday.Lawyer Ombra C.

COTABATO CITY– The information technology chief of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) describes the state of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the region as better and brighter compared with previous years.Abdelnur Campong, chief of the ARMM governor’s ICT office, said there were no efforts in establishing ICT in the regional government before 2011.Now, Campong added, all regional line agencies have their own websites and instituted their database systems even as the ARMM government created an ICT office through an executive order.These efforts add up to refo

DAVAO CITY – Local government units (LGUs) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) pledged a total of P4.196 billion to fund programs for their constituents in support of the ARMM Regional Development Framework 2016-2019.Local officials from across the region drafted the programs, projects, services and activities (PPSA) during the 3rd ARMM Local Government Summit held from November 30 to December 1 at the SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center in Davao City.Atty.

DAVAO CITY -- Citing lines from a song, Sec. Ismael Sueno of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) shared how he used to feel as a government official from Mindanao. Kami'ymgaMuslimlamang,kami'ymgataga-Mindanaolamang, he said. When he was faced with the prospect of leading his political party, he initially questioned if he had what it took to lead at the national level.Much has changed since then.A challenge This same feeling has become a challenge to many of us, Sueno said.

DAVAO CITY – President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to talk lengthily about the fanatical Dawlah Islamiya in the two-day governance summit here of local executives from across ARMM to start at noontime Wednesday.The summit, organized by the office of ARMM Gov.