By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Court of Appeal Sitting in Gombe State on Friday sentenced the former General Manager of Maiduguri Flour Mills, Ma’aji Shettima Arfo to 7 years imprisonment. Alhaji Arfo was sentenced to jail for stealing millions of naira belonging to the Borno State Government and...
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—-Arrest Immigration officer for stabbing man to death at a drinking joint By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Gombe State Police Command, has arrested a 21-year old man, Babangida Mohammed, for allegedly strangling his wife to death in Zenge village in Kaltungo Local Government Area of the state. The...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gombe – Polaris Bank has donated multi-million naira worth state-of-the-art Hydraulic/Electric Delivery Beds to the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Gombe in Gome State to further its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) interventions in the health sector. Making the presentation on Tuesday at FTH, Gombe, Polaris Bank’s Management...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – All Progressive Congress National Leader and leading presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, met the party’s delegates from Gombe on May 10 in the state capital, where he emphasized the pivotal role farmers play in providing food security for our nation. The friendly and productive...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has said that his ambition to fly the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket in the 2023 presidential election is not a do-or-die. Fayemi, also the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), stated this in an interview with newsmen in Gombe, after a consultative meeting...
APC presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Gombe State that he will curb hunger and ensure shared prosperity in the country if elected President of Nigeria in 2023. Tinubu said this in Gombe on Tuesday when he paid homage to the Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – As proof of the increasing appeal his engagements have continued to generate nationwide, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has again received massive support for his presidential bid, this time in Gombe State. Notably, on his visit to the State on Monday, in continuation of...
Palpable apprehension and concern have heightened in Gombe over attempts by the State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, to stifle the press and free speech. No fewer than three journalists have either been arrested, harassed or intimidated over trumped-up charges of ‘libel’ and ‘defamation’, after publishing factual ‘investigative’ stories. Yahaya,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gombe – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that he has the capacity and energy required to serve and salvage Nigeria as its president come 2023. Governor Wike made the declaration at Gombe State when he visited leaders and faithful of the Peoples Democratic...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says a nation will be measured ultimately by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. Osinbajo expressed this view in his special address at the At Risk Children –Programme(ARC-P) Summit on Thursday at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja. He said that in 2019, President...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe state, Alhaji Jamil Gwamna, on Tuesday, resigned his membership of the party. In his resignation letter addressed to the APC ward chairman, Jekadafari Ward, Gwamna said his decision to opt out of the party was taken after wide consultations...
The Police Command in Gombe State, has arrested six suspects over attempt to defraud residents of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ishola Babaita made this known at a news conference on Friday in Gombe. Babaita said that the arrest was made possible through its community...
The Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has reconciled Gov. Mohammed Yahaya of Gombe and a former governor of the state, Sen. Mohammed Danjuma Goje. Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs to Buni, announced this in a...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN) have begun a collaboration to aggregate maize under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) of the federal government for the 2021 wet season. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the maize farmers also inaugurated the...