Tag: Nasarawa
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Nasarawa Emir, Abubakar Umar II dies at 69
Abubakar Umar II, the Emir of Awe in Nasarawa State, is dead. Yakubu Lamai, director general, strategic communication and press affairs to Governor Umaru Al-Makura confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia. He said that the first class monarch died at the early hours of Saturday. He said the royal father…
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Maiden President Buhari football tourney kicks off on Nov. 4 in Nasarawa
Thirty-eight teams will slug it out in the maiden President Muhammadu Buhari’s Nyanya-Keffi U-23 football tournament scheduled to hold between Nov. 4 and Dec. 9, in Nasarawa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tournament will be played in a World Cup format at the football pitch of the Buratai Farm along the…
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APC sweeps Nasarawa local government election
The Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) has declared candidates of All Progressive Congress (APC) as winners of the Saturday’s local government election across the state. Mr. Henry Omaku, chairman of the electoral body announced the results of the polls on Sunday at the commission’s headquarters in Lafia. He said that three political parties; All…
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Nasarawa killings: 17 get mass burial amidst tears
Seventeen victims out of the 78 persons killed in the weekend attacks by the suspected AK47 wielding Fulani herdsmen on Tiv communities in Obi, Awe and Keana local government areas of Nasarawa state got mass burial amidst tears. Seven dead bodies were given mass burial at a Christian cemetery in Lafia, the state capital, while…
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Saraki Mourns ex-Nasarawa Governor, Akwe Doma
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, expressed grief over the death of the immediate past governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, described the late former governor as a…
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Nasarawa Assembly passes Disability Rights Commission bill into law
Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed into law the bill for the establishment of the state’s Disability Right Commission. The bill when signed into law by the state governor, Umaru Al-Makura, will protect the rights of disabled persons in the state. Speaker of the Assembly, Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, announced the passage of the bill during…
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Herdsmen/farmers crisis: Buhari visits Nasarawa today
…scheduled to visit Taraba, Zamfara, Benue later As part of efforts to douse tension and restore peace in some troubled states, President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to visit Nasarawa State today. The president is also slated to visit Taraba, Zamfara and Benue states but the dates of the visits are yet to be decided, a…
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Gunmen attack Nasarawa village, kill seven
The Nasarawa State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the killing of seven persons in a night on Kadarko, a village in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. According to Mr Kennedy Idirisu, its Public Relations Officer, the victims were killed by gunmen that invaded the village on Monday. He described the incident as “saddening”,…
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Principal, teacher suspended in Nasarawa school for beating students
Principal of Government Science Secondary School, Nassarawa-Eggon, and three other officials have been suspended for one month for meting out corporal punishment to some students. The state Commissioner of Education, Mr. Tijjani Ahmed, who confirmed this to Northern City News on Thursday in Lafia, said the state government had banned corporal punishments in public schools…
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Benue massacre: Ortom lied; killer herdsmen not camped in Nasarawa – Al-makura
Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Tuesday refuted claims by his counterpart in Benue State, Samuel Ortom that killer herdsmen on a killing spree in the state (Benue) are camped in Nasarawa State. Ortom had after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Villa on Tuesday told State House correspondents that the killer herdsmen…