Tag: Senator Ndume

Breaking! Maina:Court grants bail to Ndume

Aminu Imam

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, who has been detained in prison since Monday over his suretyship for Abdulrasheed Maina believed to have jumped bail. Justice Okon Abang, in a ruling today, said he chose to grant the senator bail based on his record of good behaviour before the court, notwithstanding that the other grounds of his bail application failed. The judge granted bail to the senator pending the hearing and determination of Ndumes appeal filed at the Court of…

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Granting amnesty to insurgents wont restore peace Ndume warns

Ishaku Yohanna
Ndume

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has warned that granting amnesty to repentant insurgents cannot restore peace in troubled states. He said arrangements were being perfected to ensure the return of some displaced victims of insurgency living in the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to their ancestral villages next month. Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Sunday. He said indigenes of Damboa, Kukawa, Kawuri, and Ngoshe,…

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How Boko Haram slaughtered 75 Borno elders in one night Senator Ndume

Ishaku Yohanna
Ndume

Senator representing Borno south, Ali Ndume, has narrated how Boko Haram insurgents killed 75 members of his community in Gwoza local government in one night. Ndume disclosed this on Wednesday at a meeting organised by the senate committee on special duties and the North East Development Commission (NEDC) in Maiduguri. The former Senate leader, who is also a member of the committee, informed the gathering that the challenges faced by the people of Borno State were being underreported. According to the senator, he cant go to his hometown because it…

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