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  Determined to complement the effort of the present administration in tackling insecurity in the state, the member representing Guyuk constituency at the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Adwawa Donglock has donated a Toyota Hilux to Hunters Association in Guyuk LGA. Baring his mind on the reason behind donating the vehicle, the Member representing Guyuk constituency, Hon. Adwawa Donglok who is also the Deputy Chief Whip of the Assembly, said he decided to donate the vehicle to enhance the activities of the hunters group. The Lawmaker explained that his primary concern is to ensure meaningful representation at the hallowed chamber, saying that he is lobbying for more developmental programmes to his constituents, and appealed to his teeming electorate to rally round Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri led administration so as to enable it succeed. Hon. Donglock added that the present Assembly is striving hard to enact laws that have direct bearing on the lives of the people at the gr...

  A balance of #150 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 for all which ensued between them over the balance which the suspect refused to give the young man. It all began during sharing of money paid to the suspect and the victim for a job they had carried out on the 14th April, 2021, in the community. Kelfari who is in police custody at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state Police Command in Yola at moment, narrated to NEWS PLATFORM that himself and the deceased were engaged in a plaster job on the aforestated date where they peacefully and successfully completed their job. The father of 2 said that after they finished their job, they were paid their money, and that after sharing it, there was a balance of #150 which he suppose...

  A balance of #150 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 for all which ensued between them over the balance which the suspect refused to give the young man. It all began during sharing of money paid to the suspect and the victim for a job they had carried out on the 14th April, 2021, in the community. Kelfari who is in police custody at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state Police Command in Yola at moment, narrated to NEWS PLATFORM that himself and the deceased were engaged in a plaster job on the aforestated date where they peacefully and successfully completed their job. The father of 2 said that after they finished their job, they were paid their money, and that after sharing it, there was a balance of #150 which he suppose...

Aftermath of the dreaded Boko Haram attack on Kwapre, a community in Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa state, the residents of the community have narrated their harrowing experience into the hands of the insurgents. The hapless residents lamented that the recent attack on the community by the hoodlums did not only claim innocent lives, but wrecked a serious havoc on the economic sector of the community.  The dreaded boko haram insusurgents had about 2 weeks invaded Kwapre village in Hong where they were reported have killed 10 people, abducted others including women and burnt several houses to ashes. Kwapre which is sharing boarder with Sambisa Forest in Maiduguri, Borno state was attacked by the Boko Haram insurgents in 2014, maiming and displacing locals who were mostly farmers. The community is being regarded as the food basket of Hong taking into cognisance its fertile land and tens of thousands of maize, rice, groundnut, Guinea corn and other food items being harvested by fa...

  About 60 suspected hoodlums armed with dangerous weapons have killed an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ibrahim Abdullahi, and injured 3 other officers in Lafiya Lamurde Adamawa state. The deceased and other victims were attacked by the hoodlums while trying to effect arrest of some suspects accused of criminal conspiracy and theft in the wee hours of today. Already, the Commissioner of Police, CP Aliyu Adamu Alhaji,has ordered for thorough investigation into the incident, and however commiserated with the family of late ASP and other officers. A statement by the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, and made available to newsmen in Yola on Saturday, said that between 12:00pm and 1:00am, the Command's operatives attached to Numan Division while in Lafiya to effect arrest were attacked. DSP Nguroje explained that hoodlums numbering about 60 armed with dangerous weapons attacked the policemen while trying to effect arrest of a wanted criminal durin...

  A custodian of traditional institution in Adamawa State, has vowed to pursue peaceful coexistence within his domain. Alhaji Inuwa Baba Paris, who is the District Head of Jimeta, in Yola North Local Government Area, disclosed this to the newly elected CAN officials in Yola, the state capital. The Monarch emphasised that Christians and Muslims were brothers, hence the need for both religious groups to coexist in harmony. He louded the bridge building efforts of the state CAN Chairman, who doubles as the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza. He noted that Bishop Mamza has epitomised true leadership for his tireless efforts at peace building. Baba Paris, enjoined the newly elected Yola North CAN officials, to join the vanguard for building an egalitarian society. He also charged them not to allow themselves to be used by politicians for achieving primordial goals. The District Head, charged religious leaders generally, to resist the temptation of preaching divis...

  Two suspected Shila boys have narrowly escaped being burnt alive by a mob after they were intercepted for allegedly stealing 2 goats in Girei Local Government Area, Adamawa state. The suspects, Abdulrahaman Musa, 26 and Saidu Ibrahim, 27 from Nassarawo ward in Jimeta/Yola, Adamawa state were intercepted by the mob after stealing the goats in Girei town on Wednesday. An eye witness told NEWS PLATFORM that the dreaded Shila boys who stormed Girei town on a tricycle, were sighted when stealing the goats by some people. He narrated that the people who saw the boys committing the act raised alarm as a result of which they were trailed and apprehended by the mob near Girei bridge along Yola -Mubi road. According to him, the mob had tried to burn the suspects alive but were immediately rescued by the police, and that they were left with no alternative than to burn the tricycle of the suspects. Confirming the incident to NEWS PLATFORM, the Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Suleiman Yah...

  Police in Adamawa state have arrested about 4 suspected kidnappers alleged to have been terrorising the inhabitants of Hong Local Government Area in the state. The police have recovered 3 single barrel guns, threat letters, N86,000 cash, GSM mobile phones and sim cards among others from the suspects. The suspects were apprehended in connection to kidnapping, threat and extortion on the 9th April, 2021 and the 11th April, 2021 respectively. A statement by the spokesman of the command, DSP, Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, and made available to newsmen in Yola on Wednesday, said that the suspects were nabbed following complaints from some residents.  According to him, the operatives of the command attached to Gombi Division, received Complaints from residents of Wuro Garba and Lugga villages in Hong LGA, that they had received separate letters threatening them to pay a million each or risk being kidnapped.  DSP Nguroje added that investigation led to the arrest of a 30 year old A...

Adamawa PDP Chairman, A.T Shehu has slammed Umar Ardo, describing him as a tenant running his mouth and threatening to give quit notice to the house owner.      The Adamawa state chairman of the people’s Democratic Party A.T Shehu has described the faction chairman of the reform PDP in Adamawa Umar Ardo as a “political wanderer, who does not deserve the attention of sane minds.”  The state chairman said it was funny that Ardo, who has been suspended from the party in Adamawa state for anti-party activities, was accusing Governor Umaru Fintiri of planning to destroy the PDP by convening the party stakeholders meeting without consulting him  and others.   According to Shehu, it was shameful that Ardo, who has tried in vain severally to bring any government in power to it knees without success and still wandering in the wilderness of politics, took Governor Fintiri’s predecessor to court in 2015 and was branded as a meddlesome interloper by the supreme co...

  Deputy Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Pwamwakeno Mackondo, has extended his deepest condolences to the Member representing Numan/Demsa/Lamurde Federal Constituency, Hon. Kwamoti B. Laori over mother's death. Hon. Mackondo who represents Numan constituency at the Assembly, commiserated with the National Lawmaker over the demise of his beloved mother, Late Mama Mildred Ibrahim. Late Mama Mildred Ibrahim died on Monday 12th April, 2021, in Abuja, after a protracted illness.  The Deputy Speaker in a statement on his behalf, his family and entire Numan constituents, conveyed their words of comfort and sympathy to Hon. Laori, his immediate family members, friends and well wishers during this moment of bereavement. He informed Rep Kwamoti that he was deeply saddened when he received the news of the death of Mama Mildred, and prayed God to grant him and other family she left behind the serenity, peace and fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.  While desc...

A Traditional Ruler in Mijulu ward, Mubi North Local Government Area, Adamawa state, Ishaya Hodi has been apprehended for allegedly exterminating 2 children after they ate local candi( otherwise known as Masar Kwaila in Hausa) which he served to them. Already, the 70 year old royal father who is currently in police custody in Yola, the Adamawa state capital is being investigated with a view to unraveling the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident. Hodi who is said to be Tugui by tribe and traditional ruler in his community in Miza, Mijulu ward, Mubi north LGA, was alleged to have masterminded the killing of the 2 little children of his subject, Idi Eske on Thursday last week. According to sources, after eating the local candi, the victims, Marafa, 6, and Buhari, 4, of the same parents began to complain of stomach upset and later died at Miza clinic. Narrating his harrowing experience to NEWS PLATFORM, the father of the deceased, Idi Eske, said that he had been having a running ...

  A Traditional Ruler in Mijulu ward, Mubi North Local Government Area, Adamawa state, Ishaya Hodi has been apprehended for allegedly exterminating 2 children after they ate local candi( otherwise known as Masar Kwaila in Hausa) which he served to them. Already, the 70 year old royal father who is currently in police custody in Yola, the Adamawa state capital is being investigated with a view to unraveling the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident. Hodi who is said to be Tugui by tribe and traditional ruler in his community in Miza, Mijulu ward, Mubi north LGA, was alleged to have masterminded the killing of the 2 little children of his subject, Idi Eske on Thursday last week. According to sources, after eating the local candi, the victims, Marafa, 6, and Buhari, 4, of the same parents began to complain of stomach upset and later died at Miza clinic. Narrating his harrowing experience to NEWS PLATFORM, the father of the deceased, Idi Eske, said that he had been having a ru...

  As Muslims all over the world begin the 30 days of the Ramadan fast, a Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdulrazaak Namdas has again reached out to electorate of his constituency with food items. Namdas who is representing Ganye, Jada, Tongo, and Mayo-Belwa federal constituency has maintained this kind of gesture since assumption of office in 2015. Represented by his Senior Legislative Aide, Sanda Husseini, the federal lawmaker tasked Muslim faithful to use the period of Ramadan to show love, tolerance and give alms to those in need. "Today we are registering the first day of the Ramadan fast as  Muslims; it is obligatory on us to demonstrate the spirit of life to one another and give alms to the needy. It is born out of the realization that Hon. Namdas felt the need to reach out to the people". "This is a period for us to redefine ourselves in terms of having love and sympathy towards one another, bury hatred, and imbibe the spirit of tolerance. Patience i...

  An eighteen (18) year old man, Abdulkarim Adamu, has been arrested by Adamawa state Police Command for allegedly stabbing his friend, Ayuba Hassan with a knife to death during a fight over Infinix Mobile Phone in Mubi North Local Government Area. Abdulkarim who is currently cooling off in one of the cells of the state police command allegedly used his long knife and stabbed his 27 year old friend on his hand and chest leading to his death on the spot over mobile phone valued at #55,000.  The suspect who is an indigent of Gombe state but resides in Mubi North LGA, narrated that the deceased called him and 2 of their friends on Saturday last week, where they all met and conspired to go to and steal jerrycans containing fuel at a particular filling station in the town. Abdulkarim narrated to NEWS PLATFORM at the police headquarters in Yola on Tuesday that they all went out on their mission in the night on that fateful day, but unfortunately they could not succeed, saying that h...

  Journalists in Adamawa state have felicitated with their Member, Mr. Wilson Biryani, over his appointment as Permanent Secretary by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. Governor Fintiri last week approved the appointment of Biryani along side 9 others as new permanent secretaries into the state civil service. But the media practitioners in a congratulary message jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), state council, Comrade Ishaka Donald Dedan and Fidelis Jockthan respectively, and made available to NEWS PLATFORM on Tuesday, congratulated Mr. Biryani and wished him well. According to the union, the appointment of Biryani to an enviable peak in civil service is well deserved and timely, saying that Adamawa stands to benefit immensely from his wealth of experience, intellectual acumen being a seasoned Journalist. "As you assume office, the NUJ implore you to be good ambassador of Journalists by flying the flag for the overall development o...

 The Speaker Adamawa state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aminu, has joined hundreds of sympathisers in extending his deepest condolences to the families of 5 young men who died in a car crash along Yola-Gombe road over the weekend. The victims including Dauda Isaac Shingu, Lumanyi Jackson and Hyellakidati Hananiya Samuel of Bekaji and Samson Eric Gandapa and Mwaniya Japhet Gajere of Karewa extension died on their way to Kaduna for an introduction over the weekend. Rt. Hon. Iya Abbas in company of the Commissioners Ministries of Health and Human Development and RRR, Prof Isa Abdullahi and Elejah Tumba, Executive Secretary ADSEMA, Mohammed Amin Suleiman, Head of Yola Operation of NEMA, Midala Anuhu and the Executive Chairman of Hong LGC Hon. James Pukuma paid the condolence visit on the families of the deceased in Yola on Monday. The Speaker had while sympathising with the bereaved, described the demise of the 5 young men as painful and prayed God to give them the fortitude to bear the...

  Barely 3 days after the deadly attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Kwapre, a community in Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa state, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri on Monday visited the community for an on the spot assessment of the damages caused by the hoodlums. Governor Fintiri had while assessing the damages, commiserated with the victims and subsequently donated the sum of 3.2million, while pledging his administration's commitment to reach out to the victims with a view to ameliorating their suffering.  Equally, the Governor was at the Taimako Clinic and Maternity in Hong LGA where he sympathised with those that sustained injuries during the incident, and prayed for their quick recovery. It could be recalled that the insurgents had on Friday last week invaded Kwapre village in Hong Local Government Area where they were reported have killed 10 people, abducted 30 people including women and burnt several houses to ashes. The Governor who was represented by the Speaker of th...

  The dreaded Boko Haram insurgents have demanded the whooping sum of #3million ransom on over 30 people including women abducted during  attack on Kwapre village in Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa state.  The insurgents who were reported to have stormed the village in 9 gun trucks and several motorcycles on Friday, killed 10 people, burnt several houses and displaced over 5,000 inhabitants of the community. While launching their deadly attack, the Book Haram insurgents who were seen in a military uniform, kidnapped more than 30 people and carted away with valuables. But a stakeholder of Kwapre who craved for anonymity told NEWS PLATFORM exclusively on Monday that the attackers called them on Sunday and demanded for #30 million before releasing their victims. According to him, they do not know where they can raise that amount of money to secure the release of their family members, lamenting that the assailants have set ablaze all their foodstuffs; and that for the pas...

No fewer 6 people have been killed while several others have been abducted in Kwapre, a village in Hong Local Government Area Adamawa state by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents. The fresh attack is coming barely 4 days after the appointment of Usman Alkali Abba as the new Acting Inspector General of Police by President Muhammadu Buhari.  According to reports, the attackers who invaded the community on Friday, killed 6 people, burnt houses and carted away with belongings of the inhabitants. In a telephone interview with NEWS PLATFORM on Saturday, the executive Chairman of the Local Government Council, Hon. James Pukuma, confirmed the attack, and said that the attackers killed 6 people and kidnapped men and women. Hon. Pukuma disclosed that the insurgents stormed the community in about 9 gun trucks while several others on motorcycles with sophisticated weapons.  He said that they have since mobilised vigilante groups/local hunters who are currently in control of the v...

  L-R: Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, Speaker ADHA presenting key and particulars of the vehicle to Rev. Joel S. Billi, President EYN in Yola.I Impressed by his commitment towards providing logistics support to his electorate, the President Church of Brethren in Nigeria (EYN), Rev. Joel S. Billi, has applauded the Member representing Michika constituency at the Adamawa state House of Assembly, Hon. Joseph Ayuba Kwada for donating new Toyota starlet to Brethren Microfinance Bank. The President who was visibly happy with the kind gesture, gave kudos to the Honourable Member for supporting the bank with the car, saying that the vehicle donated will go along way in addressing the operational challenges of the bank. Rev. Billi had while receiving the car key from the speaker of the house, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, who along side Hon. Simon Isa(Song) accompanied Hon. Kwada at  EYN State Lowcost in Yola on Thursday, thanked Hon. Kwada aka Depolis on behalf of EYN for providing logistics s...

  Civil Area Court I in Yola, Adamawa state has dissolved a 9 year old church marriage between Hilary Luka and his wife Veronica Yusuf of Michika Local Government Area. The court ended the union as a result of the refusal of Hilary to continue to stay under one roof with Veronica as husband and wife. Hilary told the court that he had since married another wife, and that he had promised himself that he will not be a husband of 2 wives at the same time. Earlier, Mrs Veronica who dragged her husband to court, alleged that Mr Hilary who now lives in Lagos failed to take care of her and her 2 children. Veronica who lives in Yola further alleged that on the 26th March, 2021, her husband went to Michika and took her children who were with her mother without her consent. She urged the court to restraint him from abusing and beating her, and also asked the Honourable court to order him to return back the children to her. On his part, the husband prayed the court dissolve the marriage as he ...

 Police in Adamawa state have recovered a bag containing what appears to be cash at a criminal hideout in Gombi Local Government Area, urging actual owner(s) to come to the divisional headquarters with credible evidence for claim. The State Police Command in a statement by its image maker, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, and made available to NEWS PLATFORM, said that the operatives of command attached to Gombi division recovered what appears to be money at Tashan Margi, Unguwan Tili in Gombi town on the 6April, 2021. DSP Nguroje disclosed that the operatives had while on area patrol at a certain black spot located at Tashan Marghi, Anguwan Tili in Gombi Local government area recovered a bag containing what appears to be money burried in a ground. It is in the light of the forgoing that the Commissioner of Police, CP Aliyu Admu Alhaji, has called on the public particularly those that have their money stolen to report to Divisional police headquarters, Gombi with  proofs and claim....

  Tiddo Yo Daddo National Alumni Association of General Mohammed Murtala College (GMMC) Yola, in Adamawa state has fixed December 2021 for centenary celebration of the old association. According to the association, the aforestated date unanimously voted for by the general congress for the celebration of 100 years of its existence is subject to the approval of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of the state. The association has prominent personalities as members who graduated from the college such as the former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, ex-Governors Murtala Nyako, Bala James Ngilari, Late Alh. Sale Michika, Deputy Governors, Members of state and National Assemblies, Judges, SSGs, Commissioners, Lecturers, LGC Chairmen, Doctors, Directors, Principals, Senior and Junior Civil Servants, Traditional and Religious Leaders among others. Some of the members of the association established in 1920 now engage in the renovation in the college, donation of laboratory equipment, instruct...

  President Muhammad Buhari's generosity to local women who are beneficiaries of his market money policy may have been in good fate, but unknown to to him that his generosity 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. The husband, Babagida Jibrilla, has dragged his wife, Aisha Mohammed to Civil Area Court I in Yola where he prayed the court to order his wife to pay him the sum of #20,000 she collected for January, February and March this year. He told the court that initially, they had been sharing the money with his wife when she started benefiting from Buhari's gesture, saying that whenever she collects the stipends, she gives him 50 percent out of it. He alleged that his wife had collected the sum of #20,000 at the end of March, but refused to declare the money or give him his own share, and urged the court to compel her to give him the whole sum because the account is bea...

  Erstwhile Governor of Adamawa state, Bala James Ngillari, has observed that it is too early for politicians to begin to agitate for 2023 elections, but rather those in governance should pool their weight towards investing in skills acquisition for young people with a view to changing their psyche as a pivot to fight insecurity. According to him, the current spate of kidnapping, armed banditry, farmer and herder clashes, Boko Haram, activities of Shila boys and other social vices bedeveilling the society must be the main concern of those in position of authority, and should strive assiduously towards curtailing them for peace and development in the society. He advocated for the involvement of the traditional institutions in fighting insecurity in the society, saying that appropriate logistics support should be advanced to the institutions, and added that the issue of security challenges should be approached holistically. Ngillari who was speaking at a town hall meeting in Yola, th...

The Hama Bachama, Homun Daniel Shaga Ismaila, PhD, OON, says production, marketing and abuse of illicit drugs is not only detrimental to the development of any society, but damages the image of nations involved in it.  However, the Hama Bachama has called on leaders at all levels including religious and traditional rulers in Nigeria to rise to the task of confronting the manufacturing of the substances, marketing and abuse especially among the younger generation, insisting that all must stand up to discourage all forms of drug dealings in communities. The Royal Father in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Anselm N. Kyauta, and made availabe to NEWS PLATFORM on Sunday, said that he dedicated his life to the task of fighting illicit drug dealings in the Country as an officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at different levels before his retirement from service, saying that no sacrifice is too much for the task of combating illicit drugs in order to protect the next...

  The Bachama Traditional Council in Adamawa state has felicitated with the Governor, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, the Deputy Governor, Chief Crowther Seth, members of the Adamawa State Executive Council, the Hon. Speaker and his Deputy, as well as all members of Adamawa State House of Assembly.  Hama Bachama who is also Chairman of Bachama Traditional Council felicitated with Hama Batta and all Traditional Rulers of the State; the Kpana/District Head of Rigange, all members of the traditional council, as well as the entire Christian and Muslim Communities in the State on this special occasion of Easter celebration. The Traditional Council admonishes all the people of the state to use this period of the crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to reminisce, to share bread, love and goodwill, and to foster the much needed unity and peace amongst all peoples of the state. 

   A 50 year old father of 15, Abubakar Abdulkadir is to spend 7 years behind bars for killing, cutting and roasting the remains of a 4 year old for boy with an intention to sell the roasted human being to a native doctor.  Abdulkadir of Mallam Alingora Village, Ardo Kola Local Government Area of Taraba state was convicted and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment by Taraba state High Court presided Justice J. F. Agya. The judgement of the court was also affirmed by the Court of Appeal sitting in Yola, Adamawa state after dismissing an appeal filed before it by the convict through his counsel, Benson Vaatsah. The convict was arraigned before the court for allegedly causing the death of a 4 year Ali Gimba where he cut him into pieces, roasted his remains, packed it into a sack with an intention of taking it to an undisclosed destination. In his confessional statement, the convict narrated that the victim and his nephew used to come to his house to play with his children, sayin...

  The Pastor of Fire House Revival Ministry in Yola, Adamawa state, Marwa Tumba, who is standing trial before Criminal Area Court II for alleged deceitful marriage filed against him by female Evangelist, Kwanye Tumba, has defied court injunction as he is set to tie nuptial knot with his preferred life partner, Comfort Innocent on Saturday this week. Already, Evangelist Kwanye Tumba is threatening fire and brimstone that over her death body will the marriage hold, unless her former boyfriend refund all her expenses ranging from cash, materials including her house which he deceived her to sell. Available information from the court revealed that Pastor Marwa will be getting married at the Life Spring Chapel behind Lamido Cinema in Jimeta Yola on Saturday 3th April, 2021, while the reception follows immediately at the Command Guest Inn along Army barracks road in Jimeta Yola. It was gathered that Kwanye Tumba has threatened the church authority and the management of the hotel against a...