Tag: Nassarawa
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Unpaid salaries: Help! We break our fast with water, Nassarawa civil workers cry out
Civil servants in Nasarawa State on Friday said that non-payment of their salaries had forced them to break their ongoing Ramadan fast with only water. In interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Keffi, the workers called on the government to pay them their three-months outstanding salaries and other entitlements to save their families…
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Prisoner cries self out of prison in Nassarawa
Ikechukwu Emmanuel, an inmate of Keffi Medium Security Prisons in Keffi in Nasarawa State, cried himself to freedom on Friday through the help of Prisons Officers Wives Association (PROWA). Emmanuel, not originally listed to benefit from the assistance of PROWA’s prison decongestion effort, elicited the sympathy of the President, Hajia Gwamma Ja’afaru, when he cried…
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Teachers’ strike: Al-Makura deploys commissioners, permanent secretaries to invigilate NECO exams
The Nasarawa State Government has said it won’t be moved by the strike action embarked upon by teachers on its payroll as arrangements have been concluded to deploy commissioners and permanent secretaries of MDAs in the state to invigilate the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the NECO examination has been scheduled to…
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Lassa fever: Nassarawa confirms death of 8 people
The Nasarawa State Government has said that no fewer than eight people have so far died following the recent outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. Dr Ibrahim Adamu, the Director of Public Health in the state’s Ministry of Health, made this disclosure to the newsmen on Tuesday in Lafia. Adamu said: “Of the 11…
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Police arrest Vice Principal, 3 others for rape in Nassarawa
The Police have arrested a Vice Principal in Nassarawa State suspected of raping his female student. The three other persons allegedly engaged in various cases of rape were also arrested by the police. A statement issued in Lafia on Wednesday by DSP Idrisu Kennedy, the Police Public Relation Officer, Nassarawa State Police Command, said the…