By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, has stressed that if voted, his administration would set aside 10 billion US dollars for Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SMEs) for young men and woman. Atiku Abubakar, also promised the people of Nasarawa...
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By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Police operatives attached to Obi Division, in Nasarawa State, have arrested one Isa Nana Okpoku , a 75 years old man from Daddare Development Area, Obi LGA, for allegedly raping his 4 years old Niece. The development was contained in a statement signed...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, has said that the opposition has nothing tangible to offer the state, but are merely seeking power to squander the savings made by his administration. Governor Sule stated this on Thursday in Kokona and Akwanga Local Government Areas, while...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Nasarawa State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed it will deliver the state to Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the party. Leaders of the party in the state stated this on Thursday at Awe Local Government Area (LGA), during the continuation...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has recovered $15,400 fake notes, following the arrest of two members of a fake dollars syndicate in Karu Local Goverment Area (LGA), of Nasarawa State. According to a report by NSCDC Director Public Relations (DPR), Mr Olusola Odumosu, on Monday in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated a 385-member campaign council for the reelection bid of Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State ahead of the 2023 general elections. Speaking at the inauguration on Saturday in Lafia, the President, represented by his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, said the campaign council would...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Security operatives have rescued Mrs Victoria Dandaura, the abducted wife of the head of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’SSIS) Mr Appollos Dandaura. Recall that Mrs Dandaura was earlier abducted from her residence in Gidi-Gidi area...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Gunmen have kidnapped one Mrs Victoria Dandaura, wife of the head of the Corps’ Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’SSIS). The incident happened at the victim’s residence in Gidi-Gidi, around Cattle market, Lafia, Nasarawa State, on Wednesday at about 7 p.m. The spokesman of...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has assured Nigerians that Labour party has the capacity to change the fortune the of Nigeria if elected in 2023. Obi, who spoke at the official flag off of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has committed a total sum of N7, 879, 432,390 billion to intervention projects at the College of Education Akwanga, Nasarawa State, from inception. Minister of Environment, Muhammed Abdullahi, who disclosed this on Thursday, while commissioning three newly-completed TETFund...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the disbursement of bursary allowances to over 8,000 students studying in different institutions of higher learning across the country for 2020/2021. Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Scholarship Board, Hajia Sa’adatu Yahaya, disclosed this, in a press briefing...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia- The Nigeria Anglican and Roman Catholic Commission (NARCC) has decried the proliferation of churches and dis-unity among Christians in the country. The commission also called on all Christians be united and win souls to God instead of unnecessary competition for members. The leaders of the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested one Alice Mulak, of ungwan Gwari, in Karu Local Government Area, for allegedly killing her boyfriend with a knife. A statement issued on Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Ramhan Nansel, disclosed...
The Labour Party (LP) is set to officially begin its presidential campaign in Nasarawa State, on October 18. Mr Alexander Emmanuel, State Chairman of the party told newsmen at a press conference on Thursday in Lafia that arrangements had been concluded for the exercise. According to him, the party...
DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Nasarawa – The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Keffi branch in Nasarawa State has commenced the building of NBA secretariat to enhance the effectiveness of the profession Laying the foundation of the multi-million naira project on Tuesday, The Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe said in...
Mr Francis Orogu, Nasarawa State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the party will deliver the state in 2023 general elections for its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The PDP Chairman stated this during an interaction with newsmen on Saturday in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital. The Chairman was reacting...
Leaders and elders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa State have urged Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers and other aggrieved members of the party to sheath their swords and unite to win the 2023 general elections. They made the called in a statement jointly signed by Abdulkarim Usman,...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Masaka, Nasarawa, on Wednesday, ordered that a 46-year-old man, Lucky Adalaki, be remanded in Keffi correction centre for allegedly biting off the outer ear part of one Tunde Adedeji. The police charged Adalaki with causing grievous hurt. The Judge, Mr Yakubu Dangawa, held that...
Mr Abdullahi Angibi, member representing Lafia Central Constituency at the Nasarawa State House Of Assembly, has received scores of APGA members into his party, the APC, at his constituency. Angibi, who is also the Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, received the defectors into APC during at a reception...
By GABRIEL AGBONIKA, Nasarawa – Barely three weeks to the commencement to the 2023 National and State governmental election campaign in Nigeria, the Keffi Local Government in Nasarawa State has inaugurated its powerful team to pilot the campaign activities in the area. The Chairman of Keffi Local Government Council,...