Category: Local News

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was on Saturday watched Riding Keke NAPEP and picking passengers in his home town, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Obasanjo took off from the Moshood Abiola Way and rode round some major streets. Dressed in white native attire and wearing a fez cap, the former President picked up passengers randomly from the […]

  Team Jimeta, a group projecting Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar (Young Minister) for Reps 2023, has donated consumables to orphans at  Government Orphanage Home and Day Care Center, Yola. The gesture is to compliment the effort of the Adamawa rising philanthropist, Abdullahi Abubakar, in assisting the needy in the society,the team said. Leader of the group, […]

  An aspirant to the position of national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Sunny Moniedafe, has been corronated as Jagaba Jimeta. The position makes him an adviser to the District Head of Jimeta within the larger Adamawa Emirate Council. Prominent visitors from far and near thronged the Ahmadu Ribadu Square in Jimeta on Saturday […]

  To reduce increasing girl-child marriage among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has taken advocacy to three formal camps in Adamawa State. Findings indicate that about 200 IDPs were married out in the three camps. Mr Midalla Iliya Annuhu, Head of NEMA Yola Operations in charge of Adamawa and Taraba […]

Muslims have again been reminded on the importance of imbibing the spirit of tolerance, humility, modesty and generosity as exemplified by the life and times of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. An Adamawa Islamic Scholar Modibbo Nana Yola made the reminder during the annual Maulud in comemoration of […]

The Adamawa State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has commiserated with the Numan Traditional Council over the death of Hama Bachama, Humon Honest Stephen Irmiya. The NUJ said in a condolence letter signed by Secretary, Fidelis Jockthan, that it shared the grief of the late monarch’s family, the Numan Traditional Council, the Bwatiye […]

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has declared that government will construct six kilometers of township roads in Yola town as procurement has already commenced and soon contractors will be mobilized to site. He revealed this when he received stakeholders from Yola South local government area who were in the Government House, Yola on a courtesy call […]

The member representing Demsa constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Kate Raymond Mamuno has expressed grief over Bachama traditional ruler Hama Bachama, Humon Honest Stephen Irmiya who died on Sunday in Numan. The lawmaker in a statement made available to newsmen in Yola on behalf of Demsa Constituency, said the demise of […]

Days after the demise of the Paramount Ruler of the Bachama Kingdom, the traditional seat of power of the Bachama Kingdom, Lamurde, has continued to witness a growing number of sympathizers who throng the local government area on  condolence visit. The five first class chiefs from southern zone of Adamawa State were among those who […]

The lawmaker representing Guyuk Constituency at the Adamawa State House of Assembly Hon. Adwawa Dongolok, has described the communal clash between the Lunguda and Waja/Hausa communities in Mamsirme, Zakawon Adaka, Boshikiri low-cost, Tarakira and Burti areas of his Constituency as “unfortunate”. Hon. Dongolok who is the Deputy Chief Whip of the 7th Assembly, spoke in […]