NUMAN ATTACK- Gov Jibrilla sets up panel.
Adamawa state government has set up an administrative panel of enquiry to investigate the immediate and remote cause of the recent killings in Kikon and Shaforon communities, in Numan local government area of the state. The Governor, Sen Mohammed Umar Jibrilla Bindow, who stated this while briefing journalists after a Security Meeting held at the […]
Shuaib vs Okonjo-Iweala: Court Orders FG to Reinstate NEMA Spokesperson 4 Year After Compulsory Retirement
….. Also Orders Payment of Salaries and Allowance within one Month Justice David Isele of the National Industrial Court (NIC) has ordered the immediate reinstatement of former Spokesperson of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Yushau A. Shuaib back into the public service after forceful retired In 2013 over an opinion article he wrote on former […]
Elderly woman, 86, ‘robs bank at gunpoint’ while pushing stroller to walk
Elderly retired corrections officer thought the bank had shortchanged her by $400 one day earlier. An 86-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday (21 November) after allegedly robbing a bank at gunpoint for $400 (£302). The elderly woman entered the bank at around 2pm pushing a stroller, held out a .38 calibre revolver and demanded money […]
Tambuwal to NNN staff: exercise little patient, your entitlements will soon be paid
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has urged workers of the New Nigerian Newspapers to exercise little patience as their entitlements would be paid soon. He said northern governors have been efforts and following the issue of staff pension and entitlements since the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Tambuwal spoke yesterday in […]
ADAMAWA MASSACRE: Group Demand Implementation Report of Panel
Numan Federation Alliance Group has demanded for the immediate implementation of the Report of the Administrative panel set up by the Bindow Administration to investigate the circumstances surrounding the massacre of of local natives from Koh, Tambo, Kwayini and Gereng Towns and villages and the prosecution of the culprits. The demand was made in a press […]
Nigerian Police Confirmed the Arrest of Maryam Sanda
The Nigerian Police has confirmed the arrest of Maryam Sanda for allegedly stabbing her husband, Haliru Bello to death. Bello, 35, son of Haliru Bello, a former chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has been buried according to Islamic rites in Abuja, after prayers at the National Mosque. Police Public Relations Officer, DPS Anjuguri […]
U.S. invests $490m to Combat HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
The United States government has allocated $400 million to scale up treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, the Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an agency of the US government, has said. The US government promised that nobody who is infected with HIV/AIDS will left behind, adding that already, a $90 million US has […]