Adamawa government has said it would inaugurate the state’s first Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling and vehicle conversion station May 29. The state Commissioner for Transportation, Mrs Wumfe Anthony, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Yola. Anthony described the initiative...
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Adamawa State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Commission says it will commence the transportation of 10,035 intending Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for 2025 Hajj Operations from May 14. Executive Secretary of the Commission, Malam Abubakar Salihu, disclosed this at the closing of Pilgrims enlightenment programme in Yola on Sunday. Salihu, who...
Police Command in Adamawa has arrested one Face Samuel, a female and resident of Army Barracks Road, Yola-North LGA for impersonation as a Vehicle Inspection Officer (V.I.O). The command spokesperson, SP Suleiman Nguroje, disclosed this in a statement in Yola on Wednesday. Nguroje said that the operatives of the...
Senator Binos Yaroe, representing Adamawa South (Peoples Democratic Party PDP), has categorically said that he will not contest for governorship position in 2027. Yaroe disclose this in an interactive session with Journalists on Thursday in Yola. The senator insisted that he remained committed and loyal to PDP, adding that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 41-year-old ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu (aka Richard) with two giant music speakers used to conceal four large parcels of methamphetamine. The methamphetamine weighing 2.700kilograms for distribution in Yola and Mubi,...
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has appointed the Emir of Fufore, Alhaji Sani Ribadu, as the Amirul-Hajj and leader of the State Government delegation for the 2025 Hajj exercise to Saudi Arabia. Fintiri announced this through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Humwashi Wonosikou in Yola on Monday. He said...
Chief George Moghalu has emerged as the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the upcoming Anambra governorship election scheduled for Nov 8, following the party’s primary election held on Saturday in Awka. Moghalu, a former Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), secured 573 votes to defeat his...
By PAUL ADAJI – Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State has observed that.President Bola Tinubu’s recent appointment of Mr. Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi as Director General, Department of State Services (DSS), has helped in reversing the tide of insecurity in the country, The governor, in a statement by his...
MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices in Adamawa has said it averted 214 maternal deaths, and prevented 16,623 unsafe abortions in 2024. MSI’s Social Behavioral Change and Communication Officer, Mr Oyewole Adejumi, on Friday in Yola, disclosed this at a media roundtable on accountability to key stakeholders in their effort to...
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintri, has lauded the Department of State Services (DSS) for rescuing two Catholic priests kidnapped in Numan Local Government Area. Fintri made the commendation in a statement issued by Humwashi Wonosikou, his Chief Press Secretary, on Friday in Yola. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – In a renewed crackdown on fuel smuggling, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), through Operation Whirlwind, has once again dealt a significant blow to illicit traders in Adamawa State, intercepting 916 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) valued at ₦22.9 million. The seizure—carried out at...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Adamawa has introduced a renewed drivers’ package to promote safety and professionalism on highways. FRSC sector commander, Mr Yahaya Adikwu, revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Saturday. He stated that the initiative aims to enhance the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – The Bishop of Yola Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, has firmly refuted reports suggesting that the recently arrested kidnapper of two Catholic priests, Taledo Damian, was a mass server or a cleric within the diocese. Addressing a press conference in Yola,...
Police in Adamawa have arrested a 34 year-old Church member for allegedly kidnapping reverend fathers, Abraham Samman and Matthew Dusami of Catholic Dioceses of Yola and Jalingo respectively. SP Suleiman Nguroje, the Command’s spokesperson, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Yola. Nguroje, however, said the victims...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – Adamawa State Police Command has condemned the kidnapping of Reverend father Mathew David Dusami of Yola Catholic Diocese and Reverend father Abraham Samman of Jalingo Diocese. The victims were kidnapped at the early hours of Feb. 22. The Commissioner of Police in Adamawa, CP...
The police in Adamawa have apprehended three members of a notorious gang group known as “Shila boys” in Yola for alleged robbery. The police spokesman in Adamawa, Suleiman Nguroje, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Yola. Nguroje said the police received credible information that five of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETfund), has disclaimed reports on the social media that it paid the sum of N325 million to the Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for running the party’s activities in the state between October 2023 and...
A former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has donated 10 computers and printers to Saint Augustine College, Mayo-Belwa, Adamawa State. Speaking at the presentation in Yola on Saturday, Obi said the gesture was to help students acquire more knowledge in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). “Today, we are...
Yobe Police Command has denied the report in an online media platform alleging that two of its personnel were involved in Potiskum robbery. In a statement by the command’s Spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in Damaturu on Friday, the command also denied shielding the accused policemen and disrupting court proceeding....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have organized a two day national workshop on flood trigger framework development in collaboration with the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMet), National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), National Emergency...