Tag: Nasarawa state

Police launch investigation into killing of Nasarawa APC Chairman

Aminu Imam

Ø  Buhari condemns killing Ø  As bandits kill PDP chairman in Katsina   An investigation into the killing of the Nasarawa State All progressive Congress, (APC) Chairman, Phillips Shekwo has been launched by the police.  The State’s Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, disclosed this in Lafia, the State capital, yesterday.  The deceased was reportedly seized from his residence in Lafia on Saturday night and was found dead yesterday afternoon, a few kilometres from his residence having been shot twice.  Longe said the incident appears more like an assassination rather than kidnapping and assured the people…

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The Nation newspaper, Liberty TV Correspondents attacked by armed robbers in Nasarawa

Ishaku Yohanna

Armed robbers have on Wednesday attacked Mr Linus Oota, the Nasarawa State Correspondent of The Nation Newspaper. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oota, who is a resident of Ombi one, Lafia, was attacked around 3:00 a.m on the fateful day alongside other tenants in the compound. Oota told NAN that he was woken up by the heavy hitting on his door by about five armed men. The hoodlums forced his door open and five of them entered and took away his three cell phones,…

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Nigerian journalist shot dead in Nasarawa

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nasarawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Tuesday, condemned the attack and brutal killing of its former treasurer, Benjamin Ekom, by unknown gunmen at his residence in Washo village, Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area (LGA), of the state. The NUJ made its position known in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Salihu Alkali and Sunday John, on Tuesday in Lafia, the state capital. The Union described the attack on innocent residents of the state by criminal elements as one too many, and called…

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Nasarawa Killing: Gov. Sule charges community to fish out criminals

Ishaku Yohanna
Governor Sule Alhaji of Nasarawa State

Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state on Sunday, charged the people of Udege Chiefdom to fish out criminal elements amongst them following the killing of the village head of Odu community, Mr Amos Obere. A statement by Mr Ibrahim Addra, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, quoted him as giving the charge during a fact-finding visit to the palace of the “Osu Ajiri,” Halilu Bala -Usman in Udege, Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state. The governor said that fishing out the criminal elements would not only ensure peace…

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