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  • SAD: 5 dead, 55 injured in Yola flood – NEMA

    The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed five dead with 55 others injured as a result of flooding in parts of Yola town in Adamawa.

    Mr Ladan Ayuba, the Head of Operations, NEMA office in Yola, said the 55 injured are receiving treatment at the Modibbo Adama Teaching Hospital in Yola.

    The Sunday early morning flooding recorded after heavy downpour in Yola and environs submerged houses in some wards of the state capital.

    Some of the wards affected where boats are being used to rescue people include Tashan Sani, Shagari phase II, Sabon pegi, Anguwan Tabo, Modire, Ummare, Yolde-Pate, Sanda Fadama II and Ibnu Abbas.

    Personnel of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Red Cross, and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC) are collaborating with NEMA in an ongoing rescue mission.

    Ali Adam, a resident of Yolde-Pate appreciated the effort of the officials for coming to their aid.

    Ali said they have never experienced such a situation in the area.
    He also appealed to the state government to come to their aid and take action against a company he claimed was mining in the area.

    According to him, the source of the water was not only because of the rain but because of a dam constructed by the company.

    Yakubu Musa, a resident of Modire, urged the state government to upgrade a major culvert in the area into a bridge to enable it to accommodate large flow of water.

    “There’s also the need to open some water ways blocked by some people engaged in rice farming in the area”, Musa said.

    Meanwhile, many displaced persons have started taking refuge in emergency camps and primary schools.

  • Police grill girl, boy friend for allegedly dumping baby in dustbin

    Police grill girl, boy friend for allegedly dumping baby in dustbin

    The Police in Adamawa have arrested a girl and her boyfriend who allegedly killed their baby and dumped the body in a dustbin on July 8, in Yola.

    The suspects, Blessing Ben and Luka Iliyasu were said to have been in courtship for two years before the girl got pregnant.

    According to SP Suleiman Yahaya-Nguroje, spokesperson of the Police Command, “Blessing was put in a family way by her boyfriend, Luka a resident of Police barracks Yola, after two years of courtship”.

    He told newsmen in Yola on Tuesday that Blessing who resides in Jambutu area of Yola North Local Government Area, had however denied killing the baby, claiming that it was delivered prematurely.

    “I had a safe and peaceful delivery but the baby was lifeless hence my decision to dump it in the dustbin.

    “When I discovered that it was a stillbirth, I kept the corpse for two days before I dumped it in the dustbin and even my aunt whom I have been living with did not know that I was pregnant for nine months,” she told newsmen.

    The police spokesman said that the suspects would be arraigned in court on completion of investigation.

  • Adamawa confirms 11 cases of Cholera

    Adamawa confirms 11 cases of Cholera

    The Adamawa State Ministry of health has confirmed 11 cases of cholera disease in Guyuk and Shelleng local government areas of the state.

    This was contained in a statement signed by Dr Celine Laori, Director, Public Health in the ministry in Yola on Thursday.

    He stated that as at Tuesday, the suspected cases were 96 and 11 confirmed positive with 2.1 per cent case fatality ratio.

    According to him, the ministry, on  Aug. 19, received reports of suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea from the affected LGAs.

    “Samples were collected and tested, using both Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in which seven were confirmed to be Cholera cases.

    “We have since activated our  Public Health Emergency Operation Centre; Rapid Response Team was put on alert and  Disease Surveillance Notification Officers (DSNOs) were directed to initiate proper investigation and conduct an  expanded event-based surveillance in all the 21 LGAs.”

    According to him,  medical consumables were procured, supplied  and deposited   at the existing Cholera Treatment Centre to support case management across the state.

    We call on all  our  partners  and stakeholders  to give the  necessary technical support to complement government’s efforts  towards containing the outbreak,” he stated.

    He advised the general public to maintain basic hygiene and sanitation as well as ensure that  food and water to be consumed  were clean and  safe.

  • SHOCKING: Court remands pregnant woman for kidnapping herself, as facebook lover pays N2m as ransom

    SHOCKING: Court remands pregnant woman for kidnapping herself, as facebook lover pays N2m as ransom

    Chief Magistrate Court I, Yola, has ordered the remand of a pregnant woman, Jamila Ardo, 25, for allegedly kidnapping herself and collecting N2m as ransom from her facebook lover, Adamu Ahmed.

    Ardo, who hails from Wauru Jabbe in the Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, allegedly connived with one Abdulaziz to fake her own kidnap to defraud her lover.

    She was said to have used the proceeds to buy a house.

    The suspect and Ahmed reportedly fell in love after meeting on Facebook, unknown to the man that he was dealing with a married woman.

    It was gathered that all through their dating, the duo never had physical contact, but the relationship blossomed as they kept in touch online.

    Details of the fraud, as contained in the charge sheet indicated how Abdulaaziz, while conniving with Ardo, put a call through to her lover, informing him that she had been kidnapped and demanding a ransom.

    During negotiation for her release, Adamu was said to have heard Ardo crying, as she pleaded with him on the phone to pay the ransom.

    Adamu was said to have deposited the money in a bank account with the name, Amina Mohammed.

    “After sending the money, Adamu was informed by his lover that the kidnappers had released her.

    “Adamu, however, became suspicious and filed a complaint at the State Investigation Bureau on November 16, 2021,” the charge stated.

    Detectives subsequently apprehended the owner of the bank account used to collect the ransom, Mohammed.

    Ardo was subsequently arrested and arraigned before Magistrate, Abdullahi Digil, on criminal conspiracy and kidnapping, contrary to sections 60 and 248 of the Penal Code Law.

    When the charge was read to the accused, she pleaded not guilty.

    The police prosecutor, Inspector Abubakar Nurudeen, prayed the Magistrate to adjourn the case to enable the prosecution to forward the case file to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

    Counsel for the defendant, C. Crowealth, who appeared alongside T. K. David, pleaded with the court to allow his client have access to a medical facility considering her condition.

    Crowealth further asked the court to order the prosecution to avail them with all necessary documents to enable them to prepare for their defence.

    Ruling, Digil granted the application and adjourned the matter till March 10, 2022, while ordering the remand of the defendant.

  • Police arrest Ibrahim Babangida, 3 other kidnappers in Yola

    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 News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) recalled that on Sunday, Oct. 10, heavily armed suspected kidnappers attacked Ngurore Police station at about 2 am and also kidnapped the woman, Hauwa Umaru and her daughter.

    DSP Sulaiman said operatives of the Anti Kidnapping unit of the state command arrested the suspects on Thursday and recovered one AK-47 rifle with 16 rounds of live ammunitions.

    ” The breakthrough that led to the arrest of the suspects began with the arrest of one Buba Ibrahim a.k.a Babangida , 20, a native of Wuro Bilal village, Ngurore District ,Yola South LGA.

    ” Ibrahim Babangida is one of the principal suspects in the kidnap operation and the confession of the suspect revealed how they abducted Hauwa Umaru, her daughter and one

    Alhaji Bahago of Ibbare and also attacked the Ngurore police station.

    ” The police were assisted by some professional Hunters who apprehended the other three gang members”, Nguroje said.

    He identified the three arrested gang members as: Tumba Alhaji Dan Bappa, 25, a native of Ibbare district, Yola south LGA; Buba Alhaji Abdu, a resident of Ibbare, Ngurore

    District, and Abdullahi Lawal , a resident of Lau local government area in Taraba state.

    Nguroje also said that the suspected criminals were also part of a seven-man syndicate that were terrorising people of Adamawa and Taraba states.

    He said the suspects would be charged to court on completion of investigations.

  • Corp members not substituting striking doctors- FMC Yola

    Corp members not substituting striking doctors- FMC Yola

    The Federal Medical Centre, Yola on Tuesday, discredited claims that medical doctors on mandatory one year national youth service had replaced striking resident doctors at the tertiary health facility.

    The centre, which has since assumed the status of a teaching hospital, denied the involvement of corpers posted to the institution as a way to combat the strike action embarked by National Association of Resident Doctors across the country.

    Head of Information Unit at the FMC, Yola, Mohammed Dodo, said it had fewer than five corps members at the health facility.

    Condemning a news report which said corps members replaced striking resident doctors at the medical centre, Dodo, who said it is unthinkable, wondered how fewer than five corps members could replace more than 100 principal medical officers and consultants who form the core of its health care professionals at the center.

    He said, “Medical care givers at the facility are largely pooled from our corps of consultants. How can corps members, who are even less than five and without prior intensive varied medical experiences, replace over 100 striking professionals in a teaching hospital?”

    He also noted that some news reports even went as far as saying the late elder statesman, Ahmed Joda, was attended to by some corps members.

    He clarified that usually when there’s a strike action such as the one embarked upon by resident doctors, the facility relies on several doctors from the rank of principal medical officers(PMO) and above, including consultants with some corps members who are under strict supervision of senior doctors, “doing all that they can to attend to patients.”

    Adding that, “The workloads are overwhelming on these category care givers who will also have to cover the duties of the striking doctors.This is to say that the entire service windows still remain open despite the strike action. The admission wards, the Accident and Emergency Unit, the Emergency Paediatric Unit (EPU), the NHIS, the Labour Ward, Laboratories, the Intensive Care Unit and the surgical theatres among other service windows have not stopped. But that is not to say the strike action hasn’t affected our operations. But to say corps members had replaced the core of our medical corps, when there are are no fewer than five corps members, is uncharitable and speculative.”

  • Late President Yar’Adua’s son crushes four to death in Yola, remanded in prison

    Late President Yar’Adua’s son crushes four to death in Yola, remanded in prison

    A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, the son of late former President Musa Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola.

    Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving on 23 June, 2021.

    According to the police First Information Report (FIR) tendered in court by the prosecutor, Insp. Zakka Musa, the accused had, while driving along Yola bye pass on 23 June, 2021 , crushed six people as a result of over speeding.

    The court heard that four of the victims were killed and the other two were injured in the accident, with the victims all hailing from Sabon Pegi, Yola South Local Government Area.

    ” Those that died in the accident were identified as; Aisha Umar (30), Aisha Mamadu (32), Suleiman Abubakar(2) and Jummai Abubakar (30), while, Rejoice Annu (28) and Hajara Aliyu(27) sustained injuries”, according to the FIR.

    The prosecuting officer told the court that the relatives of late Aisha Umar, Suleiman Abubakar and Jummai Abubakar had demanded the sum of N15 million from the defendant as compensation.

    But, when the FIR was read to the defendant as prayed by the prosecutor, he denied committing the offence, describing the allegation as untrue.

    At that point, the prosecutor pleaded with the court to adjourn the matter, to enable him duplicate the case file and forward to the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.

    The Magistrate, Jummai Ibrahim granted the prosecution’s request and adjourned the matter to 19th August, 2021, for further mention, and ordered that the ex-president’s son be remanded in prison custody until then.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the late Yar’Adua was president of Nigeria from May 29 2007 – May 5, 2010.

  • Atiku’s media company gives reason for employees’ sack on Workers’ Day

    Atiku’s media company gives reason for employees’ sack on Workers’ Day

    Gotel Communications Limited, the Yola-based media company which issued sack letters to scores of its staff on workers Day, May 1, has stated reason for it.

    The company, a firm of television and radio station owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, said the sack of staff was a result of a restructuring exercise, a process which started last year.

    The company had handed sack letters to at least 46 of its staff on Friday when workers worldwide were marking Workers Day.

    The affected staff had faulted the number of sacked workers: while some said they were over 50, others said although the initial list contained 56 staff, it was thinned down to 46.

    A statement giving reason for the sack was silent on the number of those affected. The statement, signed by the General Manager of the company, Mohammed El-Yakub, and entitled, ‘Rationalisation of staff in Gotel, outcome of long standing company restructuring,’ said Atiku Abubakar had no personal hand in the Friday layoff of workers.

    The statement said, “The rationalisation of staff at Gotel Communications Limited, a company under the umbrella of Priam Group, is a culmination of the restructuring process in the companies under our Group.

    The founder of companies under the Priam had announced that many of his business concerns will be aggregated under the Priam Group. Priam Group had embarked on a restructuring exercise which led to a merger of many companies under its umbrella.

    “Other components of the restructuring includes rationalization of workforce and thus some members of staff of the group would be laid off, with their full disengagement benefits paid to them.”

    It stressed that the current decision to “right size” the workforce in Gotel Communication Limited is the climax of the on-going restructuring exercise which was initiated last year.

    It said it was out of context “to ascribe any mundane presupposition for being responsible for the decision to lay off some of the workforce in Gotel Communication Limited,” and explained that following the unveiling of Priam Group last year, Atiku Abubakar ceased to be involved in the running of the affairs of his companies.

  • Gunmen abduct medical doctor in Yola, NMA speaks

    Gunmen stormed the house of a medical doctor in Yola in the early hours of Sunday and abducted a medical doctor.

    Sources said the gunmen took Dr Abdurrahman Muhammad Kawuyo of the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, from his home in Lakare, a community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, and have asked for a N10 million ransom.

    The state Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), DR Tunde Elijah, said of the incident, “I have been told that the bandits came in the early hours of the night and picked Dr. Kawuyo from his house.

    “One of our colleagues who was not aware of the kidnapping called to have some professional information from Dr. Kawuyo, but the call was picked by a strange person who passed it over to the doctor.

    “That’s how we got the firsthand information about the incident. The Kidnappers are demanding for N10 million to have Dr. Kawuyo regain his freedom, but negotiation is ongoing.”

    The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Adamawa State, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, told newsmen that the incident occurred at 4 am.

    He said the medical doctor packed into his house recently while it was still being worked on.

    “It is an uncompleted building. The doctor packed into it, we understand, because he was tired of paying rent where he was.

    He said the police had moved into action by mobilising men and officials to go after the kidnappers and free the doctor.

    “As we talk, our men and combing the entire area and around the hills to get at the abductors and secure the medical doctor’s freedom,” the PPRO said.

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  • Gunmen kidnap another Nigerian professor in Yola

    Gunmen have abducted a lecturer of the Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH), Allan Kadams, a few weeks after the kidnap and release of a colleague.

    Confirming the incident, the Registrar of the University, Halima Muhammmad told journalists in Yola Tuesday that the kidnappers stormed the private residence of the professor at Bajabure federal housing estate around 2 a.m. on Monday while he was asleep ”and whisked him away”.

    Muhammmad said the chief security officer of the university is already liaising with the family of the professor to ascertain whether they had received a demand for ransom.

    Recall that about two weeks ago, another professor, Ibrahim Zata, was also kidnapped by unknown gunmen at his private residence in Girei. He was released after the payment of a ransom.

    Spokesman of the police command in the state, Othman Abubakar said that the command had received an official complaint on the matter and has since detailed its men to search for the teacher.

    ”We have received the report on the kidnapping case of the professor from MAUTECH Yola and our men are on top of the situation using all strategies to ensure that the professor of soil science is rescued unharmed and on time,” Abubakar stated.

    He also said the command on Tuesday paraded 11 suspects, saying ”seven out of them are kidnappers who have been terrorising Wuro-jabbe and Vuno-Killang areas in the state capital.”