Tag: Adamawa
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2023: Poll favours Amb Abubakar-Waziri may upstage Gov Fintri in Adamawa PDP primary election
From all indications the battle of Adamawa PDP Governorship ticket will be between Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and Ambassador Mohammed Jameel Abubakar-Waziri, former Chief of Protocol to former President Goodluck Jonathan. In a poll conducted independently many factors will determine delegates’ voting patterns: politics, critical stakeholders’ interests, political errors and miscalculations, sentiment, geography including the…
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Female teenager arraigned in court for beating octogenarian to death
In Adamawa a 15-year-old female teenager has been arrested and confessed to beating an 85-year-old woman to death. She has now been arraigned in the magistrate court in Yola. The teenager whose name is given as Happy David, allegedly armed herself with a stick, went to the house of the aged woman and beat her…
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2023: Atiku becoming president, matter of time – Fintiri
Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa says it is a matter of time for former vice president Atiku Abubakar to become the country’s number one citizen. Fintiri expressed optimism that Atiku is just one step away from emerging as president.
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Police arrest six suspected kidnappers in Adamawa
The Adamawa State Police Command says it has arrested six suspected kidnappers who attacked Ngurore Police Station in Yola-South Local Government Area and kidnapped nursing a mother. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident occurred on October 10, but the victims had been rescued. The Commissioner of Police in the State, Mohammed Barde,…
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Half a million people in three Nigerian states at risk of starvation – UN
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that half a million women, men and children in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states are at risk of starvation as its funding for the region dries up. In a statement released on Friday, the global agency says it may soon be forced to cut food rations…
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Police arrest Ibrahim Babangida, 3 other kidnappers in Yola
The Police in Adamawa have confirmed the arrest of four high-profiled kidnappers who were suspected to have abducted a nursing mother and her daughter, according to a statement by DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, on Thursday, in Yola. Nguroje, the command’s spokesperson, said that the notorious suspects were also behind the attack on Ngurore Police station. The…
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Husband dies of poison after fight with wife in Adamawa
A 29-year-old man, Vandu Weida, has committed suicide by drinking herbicides. The incident occurred at Mildu Central, in the Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State last Tuesday. Vandu, a father of three, had a misunderstanding with his wife, which degenerated into a fight. An eyewitness said during the fight, Weida told his wife that…
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Polio resurfaces in Adamawa, 1 case detected – Official
The Adamawa Government has confirmed the reemergence and detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 case in the state. Prof. Abdullahi Isa, the stateCommissioner for Health and Human Services, disclosed this during the official flag off of first Round Outbreak Response immunisation on Saturday in Yola. Isa described Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 (…
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DSS grills ex-Governor, APC chieftains over anti-Buhari meeting
A former Governor of Adamawa State, Senator Jibrilla Bindow, is currently in trouble for convening a meeting during which invectives, even death wish, were rained on President Muhammadu Buhari. The alleged conspiracy blew open when an audio recording of the meeting was leaked and started circulating in the media. Bindow was said to have been…
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JUST IN: Boko Haram fighters kill 24 in communities close to SGF’s hometown
At least 24 persons have been killed by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Terrorists in Dabna a farming community three kilometres away from Graha the hometown of the Secretary to the Federal Government, Boss Mustapha. The community is said to have come under attack in the early hours of Wednesday, with insurgents shooting sporadically…