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  • SAD! Maria Raphael, a Taekwondo athlete crushed to death by truck in Nasarawa

    SAD! Maria Raphael, a Taekwondo athlete crushed to death by truck in Nasarawa

    She was crushed to death, according to death in a report monitored by TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG)

    The deceased, who won a silver medal for team Nasarawa in the just concluded Bayelsa Open Taekwondo, was crushed by a truck in Lafia, the state capital, on Friday.

    The deceased lost her life after purchasing some items from a grocery store along UAC road in Lafia.

    The talented athlete won a bronze medal in the 46kg women’s category at the 15th edition of the Panamai West African and Cottage Mills Taekwondo Championship, held recently in Lagos State.

    She was in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where she represented Nasarawa in a championship which held between August 21 and 24, 2022.

    In a statement, the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, described the death as an unquantifiable loss, saying her immense contributions to sports in the state would be sorely missed.

    “Maria was crushed to death (sic) by an articulated vehicle (trailer) along UAC Road here in Lafia, while on her way to purchase some items from a grocery store in the evening of Friday, 26th August, 2022, few hours after returning home from a championship in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where she represented Nasarawa State.”

    “At the 15th edition of the Panamai West African and Cottage Mills Taekwondo Championship held early this month in Lagos, the late Maria Raphael was one of the athletes who inspired Team Nasarawa to finish 4th position on the medals’ table as she won a bronze medal in the -46kg Women’s Category at the Championship.

    “The deceased was a committed, dedicated and focused athlete, winning medals of different categories for Nasarawa State, ranging from cadet, junior and senior category, until her untimely demise.

    “Maria brought lots of glory and honour to Nasarawa State. Her demise is an unquantifiable loss to everyone of us at the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and Nasarawa State as a whole, while her immense contributions will be sorely missed,” read the statement signed by Eche Amos, spokesman of the ministry.

    Source: Daily Trust

  • Police arrest fake naval officer in Nasarawa

    Police arrest fake naval officer in Nasarawa

     The Police Command in Nasarawa State has arrested a fake Naval Officer in the state.

    DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) made the disclosure in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen on Saturday in Lafia.

    According to the Police spokesperson, the suspect was arrested wearing full military camouflage and with identity card bearing his name.

    “On August 25, 2022, a 33 years old man, an indigine of Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area, was nabbed wearing military camouflage.

    “The suspect who claimed to be working in Kogi State was arrested at Doma market while putting on full Military Camouflage, by operatives of 4 Special Forces Command, Doma and handed over to the Police for further investigation,” he said.

    The spokesperson added that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect procured the military regalia and accoutrements from Lagos State.

    The PPRO in the statement added that the suspect had been wearing it to deceive unsuspecting members of the public before nemesis caught up with him.

    He further said that the investigation led to the recovery of some military accoutrements of the Nigerian Navy.

    He listed the accoutrements to include two sets of combat short knickers, a jackknife, two identification cards of Nigeria Merchant Navy carrying the name of the suspect, a Belt, and two mobile phones.

    Nansel said the Commissioner of Police (CP), Adesina Soyemi ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to carry out exhaustive investigation to unravel other crimes that might have been committed by the suspect.

    He, therefore, said that the suspect would be charged to court for prosecution after the investigation.

  • Jailbreak: Police recapture fleeing Boko Haram terrorist

    Jailbreak: Police recapture fleeing Boko Haram terrorist

    One of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists who escaped from Kuje correctional center, Hassan Hassan has been recaptured by the police in Nasarawa state.

    Recall that terrorists on Wednesday attacked the Kuje medium custodial center and freed over 800 inmates including members of the Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP).

    Following the jailbreak, the  Federal Government on Friday declared that 64 of the inmates who had terror-related charges wanted with their names and other details published.

    The Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel said the Boko Haram escapee was captured in the early hours of Saturday.

    Nansel said  “Sequel to the attack on Kuje Maximum Custodial Centre and subsequent escape of inmates, on July 9th, 2022 at about 0130hrs, one Hassan Hassan ‘M’ whose name and picture was amongst the escaped inmates with Boko Haram/Terrorism Case was recaptured by the Eagle-eyed Police operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command at Keffi.

    “The Commissioner of Police, CP Adesina Soyemi has ordered for the transfer of the suspect to a safer location while an intensive search for other escapees and handing over process of the arrested inmate progresses.

    “The Commissioner of Police, however, appreciated the efforts of the Police operatives for a job well done and assured members of the public of the Command’s unrelenting efforts at making the public space safer for all”.

    The Federal Government has launched a manhunt for the remaining fleeing terrorists who escaped after the Kuje correctional center jailbreak.

  • Nigerian female pilgrim dies in Saudi Arabia

    A Nigerian pilgrim, Hajiya Aisha, died of illness in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

    Aisha Ahmed, from Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa state, died after a brief illness according to Alhaji Idris Al-Makura, Executive Secretary, Nasarawa State Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board.

    Al-Makura disclosed in Makkah, Saudi Arabia that the deceased had no record of ailment before departing from Nigeria.

    “The deceased had no medical history as at the time of departure to the Holy Land and we are together in Madinah. Some of the pilgrims took ill two days ago.

    “She was first taken to the National Hajj Commission’s Hospital in Makkah and later transferred to the King Abdulaziz Hospital where she passed on. The family was duly informed of the death.

    “We sent the family a video recording of the process of her death confirmation, to the funeral rites and finally, the burial,’’ he said.

  • Gunmen kill former NPC Commissioner in Nasarawa

    Gunmen kill former NPC Commissioner in Nasarawa

    Gunmen on Sunday, killed Mr Zakari Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner of National Population Commission (NPC) at his residence in Azuba community near Lafia, Nasarawa State capital.

    ACP Rahe incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia.

    According to Nansel, the gunmen stormed the victim’s residence at about 12:30 a.m., shot at him before abducting two of his children- a boy and a girl.

    The Police Command spokesman said that upon receiving report of the incident, the Commissioner of Police, Adesina Soyemi, immediately deployed

    Police personnel comprising Anti Kidnapping unit and Police Mobile Force to the scene.

    Nansel said the CP had also visited the scene for on-the-spots assessment and condole with the family.

    He said the police would not rest on their oars to ensure that the abducted children were rescued unhurt.

    “The police will carryout a comprehensive investigation to unravel, arrest and prosecute those behind the dastardly act,” Nansel said.

    The PPRO, therefore, called on members of the public to avail the police with useful information that could lead to the rescue of the abducted victims and arrest of the perpetrators.

    The deceased was a former National President, Eggon Cultural and Development Association (ECDA).

    NAN

  • Police arrest man for allegedly raping 80-year-old woman

    Police arrest man for allegedly raping 80-year-old woman

    The Police command in Nasarawa have arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly raping an 80 year-old woman in the state.
    A statement signed by ASP Ramhan Nansel, Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command confirmed in Lafia, on Sunday.
    The statement said a complaint was lodged at Garaku Division of the Police Command on Jan. 14th, 2022 at about 22:30pm on the incident.
    According to the statement, the accused was one 43-year-old Dan’asabe Eddo, an indigene of Kaduna state, but resident in Kundami village, Garaku, Lokonga local government area of Nasarawa state.
    “He allegedly went into the residence of an 80-year-old woman, who stays alone in the same village, and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.
    “Upon receipt of the complaint, police operatives attached to the Garaku Division immediately swung into action and got the suspect arrested.
    “Upon interrogation, the suspect admitted that he committed the offence, but blamed it on the devil.
    “Upon notification, the Commissioner of Police, CP Adesina Soyemi, directed that the case be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Lafia, for profound investigation,” the statement said.
    The statement urged members of the public to pay special attention to the elderly, and guard them against gerontophiles.
  • Nasarawa bans use, sale of charcoal

    Nasarawa bans use, sale of charcoal

    The Nasarawa State Government has banned the use and sales of charcoal in the state to protect the environment.

    Mr Aliyu Agwai, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, announced this while addressing newsmen on Saturday in Lafia.

    He said that the process of producing charcoal is harmful to the environment by destroying the climate and increasing global warming.

    Agwai noted that the burning of charcoal, especially, would produce harmful emissions.

    “Cutting trees can result in the loss of habitat for animal species, which can harm the ecosystems.

    “Almost all the land animals and plants live in forests and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes,” he observed.

    e selling and using charcoal to desist to avoid prosecution in case of violation.

    He lauded the residents of the state for the level of compliance with the sensitisation programme on environmental sanitation.

    “Usually every last Saturday of the month is set aside for sanitation exercise, but we brought it back to today because of the Christmas celebration,” he added.

    Agwai said that all roads to the state were blocked to prevent motorists from other states from passing but they had been opened after the sanitary exercise.

    “We only allowed those with permission from the relevant ministry, or on essential services to pass and move around during the exercise,” he said.

    Meanwhile, a mobile court, handling environmental-related cases, has prosecuted 32 persons suspected to have violated environmental sanitation laws in Lafia.

    The Prosecutor, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, who is also a Chief Environment Officer, told the court that the suspects were transacting their private businesses while the sanitation exercise was in progress.

    Mohammed said that the offences violated Section 9(2), of the state Environmental Sanitation Law.

    He urged the court to sanction them accordingly to serve as a deterrent to others.

    The Judge, Mr Abdullahi Lande, convicted and sentenced them to six months imprisonment respectively with the option of a fine of between N5, 000 and N50, 000 respectively.

  • Lassa Fever kills two doctors, pregnant woman in Nasarawa

    Lassa Fever kills two doctors, pregnant woman in Nasarawa

    Two doctors and a pregnant woman have died of Lassa fever in Nasarawa State.

    The Director of Public Health of the state Ministry of Health, Ibrahim Adamu confirmed their death on Wednesday.

    He said based on activities conducted on the outbreak response, the doctors are suspected to have contracted the disease from a pregnant woman which both of them operated on recently at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital.

    The woman died of a bleeding disorder associated with fever, which brings the number of Lassa fever deaths in the state to three.

    The two doctors, he stated, fell ill, got diagnosed and died in health facilities in Abuja.

    “We can confirm the two doctors that have succumbed to the threat of Lassa fever. When they fell ill, they were not in the state, they fell ill outside Nasarawa State, they were admitted for treatment in Abuja, the diagnosis was actually done outside the state and the death also occurred in facilities that are in Abuja not within the state,” Adamu said.

    “However based on the outbreak response activities we have conducted, it appears that they might have been infected from the state where a pregnant woman was said to have been operated upon and she died of bleeding disorder connected to fever, so the suspicion right now is that she might have been the source of the infection for those two doctors because they are the two persons that operated upon her.

    He added that all contacts of the three victims have been identified and their tests all returned negative but the ministry will continue with surveillance.

  • Ex-minister rescued hours after abduction in Nasarawa

    Ex-minister rescued hours after abduction in Nasarawa

    Information reaching TheNewsGuru.com, TNG has it that a kidnapped former Minister of State for FCT, Senator Solomon Ewuga has been rescued by the police.

    According to reports, the ex-minister was kidnapped on Tuesday at Kurmin Shinkafa, Gudi,of Akwanga local government area of Nasarawa State enrout Abuja.

    Confirming his release shortly after his kidnap, the Nasarawa State Police command said after a sustained pressure from it operatives,the former deputy governor, minister and senator was rescued unhurt on Tuesday hours after his abduction.

    The police public relations officer of the command, ASP Ramhan Nansel confirmed the rescue of the elderstateman.

    He said the former senator was on his way to Abuja and was kidnapped at about 20:40 hours, but due to mounted pressure by men of the Nigerian police force who were alerted on time, moved into the forest and rescued the senator.

    The PPRO added that no arrest was made,but that the command is not relaxing over the matter to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book as investigations was ongoing.

    Sources confirmed to TNG on Wednesday night that the former minister is presently at the Gudi Station Police Division in Akwanga LGA.

    However, it was gathered that the one of the senator’s aide is still in captivity.

    Meanwhile, the Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Adesina Soyemi has ordered operative of the police to move into the forest for possible arrest of the criminals.

  • ‘It is not working’; Nasarawa Governor opposes Southern colleagues on anti-open grazing law, gives reasons, alternatives

    ‘It is not working’; Nasarawa Governor opposes Southern colleagues on anti-open grazing law, gives reasons, alternatives

    Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has faulted the recent anti-open grazing policy adopted by his colleagues from the Southern region of the country.

    The governor explained that while it is true that open grazing is indeed the way to go, however, Nasarawa State will not ‘join the crowd’ in passing the law without first providing alternatives for the herders.

    “We don’t like the current anti-grazing policy, it is not working.”

    “We are not just going with the crowd about Anti-Grazing law. If you sign anti-grazing law and it is not working, is it worth it?

    “One thing all the northern governors have decided, we said that the current method of open grazing is old-fashioned, outdated, and cannot be sustained,” the governor said on Monday when he featured on a monitored Channels Television programme.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the governor’s remarks is coming few hours after his Lagos State counterpart, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the anti-open grazing bill into law.

    TNG reports that the action of the Lagos governor was in line with the resolution of the Nigerian Southern Governors Forum that member-states should enact the law prohibiting open grazing to align with the uniform template and aspiration of the governors.

    During the latest meeting held on Thursday last week in Enugu, the governors commended the rate at which the states in the South were enacting the law and encouraged others to do so expeditiously.

    But Governor Sule, who is not a member of the forum, has a contrary view, although he agreed that the nomadic lifestyle of herders was not the way to go.

    He stated that while it might be easy for the Nasarawa State House of Assembly to pass the anti-open grazing bill, the fate of the herdsmen should not be left hanging.

    As an alternative to the anti-open grazing law, the governor revealed that the state government has decided to endorse the National Livestock Transformation Plan.

    He explained that his administration planned to settle herders by setting up grazing reserves in seven locations in the state, an initiative he said was taken in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Netherlands Government.

    “The best way to do that is if you have options for the people; it is very easy for Nasarawa to say in one week, we will go to the Assembly to go ahead and have anti-grazing law.

    “So what happens to the Fulanis that are moving back and forth? If the Fulanis know why it is not working, the best way is to give them something that works,” said Governor Sule.