Tag: Adamawa State

Emir sacks APC chieftain for criticising Governor

Aminu Imam

The Lamido of Adamawa, Muhammadu Barkindo, has stripped one of his chiefs of his title for criticising the State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, for presenting car gifts to traditional rulers in the State. According to the Adamawa Emirate Council, Umar Mustapha is no longer fit to hold the traditional title: of ‘Mukaddas Adamawa’. Mustapha, who is a former governorship aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, (APC), was, according to his statement, critical of the governor over the car gifts. “It’s a misplaced priority to spend N200 million getting vehicles for traditional…

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Insecurity: Gov Fintiri orders indefinite closure of Adamawa schools

Aminu Imam

Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has directed the closure of 30 boarding schools across the State. The governor gave the order following heightened insecurity concerns in the State and the young age of the students. He said the order, which takes effect from September 6, 2021, would affect 30 out of the state’s 34 boarding junior secondary schools. Fintiri’s directive was contained in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Wilbina Jackson. The statement reads: “30 boarding junior secondary schools out of the 34 schools…

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Adamawa: Police smashes 14-member kidnapping syndicate, recovers 18 phones

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The Adamawa State Police Command has smashed a 14-member kidnapping syndicate operating in the State. According to the Command, it recovered 18 handsets with 23 SIM cards from the suspects. The Police gave the identities of the suspects as Sanda Buba, 33 yrs-old and resident of Bausman village, of Chigari, in Fufore LGA; Aliyu Abubakar, 34 yrs-old and resident of Yolde Pate, Yola-South LGA; Ashiru Sarkin Yamma, 25 yrs-old, with no fixed address. The others are Tukur Hammadu, 35 yrs-old, resident of Yolde Pate, Yola South-LGA; Abdul Isa, 35, from…

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Adamawa elder statesman, Ahmed Joda, passes on at 91

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…”He rescued Nigeria from disintegration” – Obasanjo Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has mourned the death of late former Permanent Secretary, Alh. Ahmed Joda, saying he rescued Nigeria from disintegration. He said Joda, who was at that time the Chancellor of the Bells University, Otta, in Ogun State, and other Super Permanent Secretaries, saved the unity of Nigeria shortly after the country’s upheaval in 1966. Joda, died on Friday, aged 91. Obasanjo, while reacting to his death through his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, described Joda as not just…

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Hunters expel Fulani men, women attempting to enter Adamawa town

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Hunters in Ganye local government area of Adamawa State have turned back a group of 107 Fulani migrating to Toungo LGA of the State. Picture caption: The migrating Fulani families intercepted in Ganye town. Eye witnesses told newsmen that the hunters stationed at a checkpoint in Ganye town had intercepted a trailer conveying families comprising five men, 32 women and 70 children in the early hours of Monday. Upon interrogation, the men, who identified themselves as heads of the families, claimed to be migrating from Doma in Nassarawa State to…

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Boko Haram insurgents attack community in Adamawa, many feared killed

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Many people were feared killed as gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members attacked Danga, a community close to the hometown of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) in Adamawa State in the early hours of yesterday. Danga village, in Hong local government area of Adamawa State, came under heavy attack on Wednesday according to an eyewitness who was among those who escaped the attack. According to eyewitnesses, one of the community’s civilian guards who attempted to repel the insurgents was among those killed during the attack.…

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Adamawa: 2 Shila boys escape being burnt alive for stealing two goats

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Two suspected Shila boys have narrowly escaped being burnt alive by a mob after they were intercepted for allegedly stealing 2 goats in Girei local government area of Adamawa State. The suspects, AbdulRahaman Musa, 26 and Sa’idu Ibrahim, 27, from Nassarawo ward in Jimeta/Yola, Adamawa State, were intercepted by the mob after stealing the goats in Girei town on Wednesday. An eyewitness told newsmen that the dreaded Shila boys, who stormed Girei town on a tricycle, were sighted when stealing the goats by some people. He narrated that the people…

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“Give us ‘stomach infrastructure’”, Adamawa PDP tells Gov. Fintiri

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The Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, to provide “stomach infrastructure” for its members and the state residents in general.  The Adamawa PDP Chairman, Tahir Shehu, made the demand during a stakeholders’ meeting with the governor in Yola, the State capital, on Friday. Stomach infrastructure, popularised by a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, is a term in Nigerian politics used to refer to the provision of food and other basic needs for the people in an undeserved manner.…

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Adamawa: Police arrest Woman, 2 others for sending threat messages to people to pay a ransom or be kidnapped

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The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested three members of a text-message kidnap syndicate including a woman, for extortion and threat to life. The spokesperson of the State’s Police Command, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, said that the suspects specialise in threatening and extorting innocent citizens. He gave their names as Zainab Ahondu 50, from Jalingo, Taraba State, Suleiman Adamu,34, a resident of No.18 Alkali Street, Demsawo, Yola-North, and Abdullahi Ayuba, 36 a resident of Ghana Crescent, Bekaji, Yola-North. Nguroje said the suspects…

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Insecurity: FG begins mass relocation of pupils from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa

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The Federal Government has stated that it has commenced the relocation of pupils from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states to other states. This is following the series of mass abduction of school children by Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals in the northern part of the country. According to the Director of Press and Public Relations in the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, the ‘Safe Schools Initiative’ of the government had not stopped. He stated that the implementation of the initiative was being intensified and re-invigorated. Recall that Boko…

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