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Adamawa Speaker, NUJ congratulate Governor Fintiri over tribunal victory

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By Tom Garba The speaker Adamawa State Assembly Rt Hon Bathiya Wesley has congratulated Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri on his victory at the governorship election petition tribunal. The speaker in a press statement signed by his chief press secretary Hyellamada Bernard said the decision of the

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Adamawa SDP Guber candidate urges electorate to vote out PDP, APC for destroying Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2022 0

By Tom Garba Adamawa State Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, for the 2023 elections, Dr. Umar Ardo, has accused the two major political parties (APC and PDP) of destroying the country in all strata of developments. Ardo forwarded his accusations in an interview with journalists in Yola at the weekend, urging the […]

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Adamawa: Admiral Yoghurt installs largest solar powered dairy factory in W’Africa

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By Tom Garba Sebore International Farms was on the thrust of history, Thursday, as the state of the art, largest solar-powered dairy firm in West Africa, Admiral Yoghurt was launched amidst pomp and pageantry. The launch of the firm marks the beginning of the entrenchment of a solid economic blueprint via an industrial park that […]

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Troops kill 6 Boko Haram insurgents, recover arms in Adamawa

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The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said its troops killed six Boko Haram terrorists in gun battle at Sabon Gari in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa. Brig.-Gen. Abdulwahab Eyitayo, the Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division Nigerian Army, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri. Eyitayo said […]

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2023: A dead party cannot send me packing from Govt House, Gov Fintiri lambasts APC

Ihesiulo Grace 16 August 2021 0

*You’re packing out of Govt House come 2023 whether you like it or not, APC replies Gov Tom Garba,Yola Governor Fintiri of Adamawa State has described the All Progressive Congress (APC) as “a dead party, not capable of capturing Adamawa in 2023.” The Special Aide to the Governor, Solomon Kumangar, made the remark in an […]

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Adamawa records 774 sexual, gender-based violence cases, convicts 297

Ihesiulo Grace 28 July 2021 0

By Tom Garba, Yola Adamawa State has recorded 774 cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) between 2020 and the first half of 2021. Two-hundred-and-ninety-seven of the perpetrators have so far been convicted. These was disclosed in Yola on Monday by Dr Ukohi Ukiwo, Technical Lead, Managing Conflict in Nigeria (MCN) Programme at the […]

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Fake Muslim convert nabbed by Adamawa police for defrauding member of the public

Ihesiulo Grace 7 June 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola Adamawa police command nabbed David Daniel Garuba an Indigene of Kebbi state who is parading himself from one Mosque to another, telling lies to attract undue sympathy thereby extorting members of the public. David is 19 years old suspect he is generally known as Abubakar Yusuf is an indigene If Zuru local […]

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Adamawa police kill one suspected kidnapper, rescue victim

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Tom Garba, Yola Adamawa State police has rescued a kidnap victim and killed a suspected kidnapper in a fierce gun duel. A statement by the spokesman of the command, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje said the incident happened in a remote side of Zumo rock in Song local government area of the state. Nguroje said on May […]

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Constitution Amendment: I’m after a constitution that will unite Nigerians than divide us – Kwacham

Ihesiulo Grace 29 May 2021 0

An All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart in Adamawa State, Alhaji Abdulrahaman Buba Kwacham in his own opinion said there can’t be better constitution that the one which seeks to unite Nigerians and to have an inclusion of all people irrespective of religion, tribe or place of origin. Buba stressed that a constitution with a deliberate […]

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Adamawa police recover 20 guns, 1000 round of ammunition, drugs,52 criminals paraded

Ihesiulo Grace 26 May 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola Adamawa State police command has today paraded 52 persons for allegedly committing violent crimes across the state. Addressing newsmen during the parade, Adamawa State commissioner of police, Aliyu Adamu Alhaji said the arrests were made between March 2021 to date. “The operatives of the command have arrested 52 suspects who are members […]

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N100B bond: APC accuses Gov Fintiri of being reckless

Ihesiulo Grace 19 May 2021 0

…says future of people of Adamawa has been ambushed Tom Garba, Yola The All Progressives Congress, APC, have opposed the one hundred billion naira Agric Business bond facility the Governor of the state, Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri set to collect. The APC in a Press Release said that the people of Adamawa should understand […]

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Man, 38 Murders own cousin over N150 in Adamawa community

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Tom Garba, Yola A balance of N150 which led to a fight between Kelfari Jediel and his uncle’s son, Parambiu Alexander of Fotta community in Gombi Local Government Area, Adamawa state has resulted in a fatal death of the son. The 38 year old Kelfari Jediel brutally murdered the 20 year old Parambiu during free […]

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Police apprehend 4 kidnappers terrorizing Adamawa communities

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Tom Garba, Yola The police command in Adamawa said they have another breakthrough as four kidnappers were arrested in various locations in the state. The command public relations officers, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje in a statement said their arrest led to the recovery of N86,000 Cash,  three Single Barrel guns, threat letters, Handset, Sim cards, […]

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Stakeholders Meeting: Gov Fintiri has killed PDP in Adamawa- Sen Grace

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola The aftermath of the Adamawa people’s Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders meeting held in Yola, Wednesday is rising much political dust and cloud of crisis gathering within the family members of the ruling party in the state. Senator Grace Jackson Bent, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) over the stakeholders […]

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Your govt is floating on the water of deceits- Adamawa APC replies Gov Ahmadu

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola The All progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa said Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri is one of the failed Governor, rudderless leaders, showing the qualities of incapable to govern the state resorted to an open show of his failure, sitting and floating on the seat of deceits APC organizing Secretary, Alhaji Ahmed Lawan said […]

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Tension griefs Sukur, an Adamawa community as a soldier killed Man trying to escape motorcycle seizure

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola There is seems to be a mounting tension over the killing of a Man by a Nigerian Soldier stationed in the Madagali area of Adamawa state. Report reaching us through Sukur Youth Development Association’s Secretary, Lawrence Luka said Solomon Joshua was shot dead when he was trying to escape from the soldier’s […]

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N20,000 Tradermoni tears Adamawa couples apart as husband drags wife to court

Ihesiulo Grace 6 April 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola President Muhammad Buhari’s generosity to petty traders, artisans who are beneficiaries of his empowerment policy may have been in good fate. But the free loan gesture is tearing families apart as a man in Yola, Adamawa state has dragged his lovely wife to court, demanding for an account on #20,000 she collected. […]

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Politicise Adamawa trad’l institution is not good for peace sake, Dan Maje tells Gov Fintiri

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Tom Garba, Yola The traditional title holder of Dan Maje Adamawa, in Adamawa emirate council, Ahmadu Hamman Nasara, has expressed deep reservations over what he called governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri’s moves to politicize the traditional institution in order to achieve his innate political desire of despoiling the revered institution. Nasara who is also the Chiroman

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Adamawa police to deploy 4,086 men, assure watertight security during Easter celebration

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola Adamawa State commissioner of police, Aliyu Adamu Alhaji has ordered a water-tight security deployment and proactive high visibility patrols in all the 21 Local governments in the state, ahead of the Easter festivity. According to a statement by DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, the command’s image-maker, the commissioner of police directs all divisional police

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20-yr-old fake police officer arrested in Adamawa

Ihesiulo Grace 25 March 2021 0

Tom Garba, Yola Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command attached to Girei Division in Girei Local Government Area in the state have arrested a 20 man parading himself as a police officer. A release signed by the PPRO, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, and made available to NEWS PLATFORM on Thursday, said that the operatives […]