Tag: yola
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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 courtshi
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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…
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SHOCKING: Court remands pregnant woman for kidnapping herself, as facebook lover pays N2m as ransom
Woman allegedly kidnapped herself for N2m ransom from her Facebook lover
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Presidential hopeful, Atiku commissions restaurant [Photos]
Presidential hopeful Atiku Abubakar on Sunday commissioned a restaurant in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State. TheNewsGuru recalls the former vice president in 2017 commissioned the first outlet of the restaurant in Abuja. “Our vision was to open several other outlets as one of the contributions of my family to reduce unemployment in Nigeria. “I…