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Hassan Mohammed of National Supply in Yola North Local Government Area, Adamawa state, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly defiling an 11 year old girl(names withheld). Magistrate Japhet Ibrahim Basani, of the Magistrate Court 2 in Yola, Adamawa ordered for the remand of the 18 year old man after he admitted defiling the girl for about 4 times. Earlier, Hassan, confessed that he had defiled the little girl 4 times, and was giving her N200 only after every perfomance. He narrated that he first met the minor when she came to fetch water at National Supply, and succeded in luring her to a burnt down house where he defiled her. The prosecution had earlier informed the court that the mother of the girl reported to the police that the accused person had on 4 different occasions took her daughter to the building and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her. While arraigning him in court on Tuesday, Inspector Naomi Hassan, urged the court to read out the substance of the offenc...

Adamawa state of Assembly has begun an investigation into an alleged illegal sale of an house meant for Area Court Judge by the Executive Chairman Mayo Belwa Local Government Council, Hon. Gershon Kasuwa. The Chairman was alleged to have illegaly sold the judges' house which had been in existence for over 40 years, a piece of land owned by clinic which is located at old market Mbilla ward, plots of land, a bulldozer, a tractor and roofing iron along M/Belwa Zing road belonging to the council. To investigate the allegations, the Assembly, presided by its Speaker, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, on Monday constituted a 7 member committee headed by the Chairman House Standing Committee on Works, Land and Survey, and Member representing Madagali constituency, Hon. Haruna Jilantikiri, with a mandate to look into the issues and given 2 weeks to submit its findings. Earlier, the 2 page petition dated 23rd August, 2021, and fowarded to the hallowed chamber by Musa Abubakar, a Concerned Citizen, ...

Operatives of the Adamawa Police Command attached to the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) have arrested a man simply identified as, Dada Gbeniga Ayomilekan, for allegedly parading himself as Corp Member.   The Operatives also recovered forged HND certificate and fake Identity card among other documents from the suspect. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, said in a release made available to NEWS PLATFORM on Tuesday, that the fake corp member was arrested during an intensive surveillance patrol by the operatives. DSP Nguroje, said the officers had while on the patrol to ensure safety and security in NYSC Orientation Camp in Girei Local Government Area, apprehended the man and recovered forged HND certificate, fake ID card, others from him. According to him, the suspect and resident of Hokolul street, Oyun tipper garage, Ilorin, Kwara state claimed to have graduated from Plateau State Polytechnic with with lower credit grade and was sent to NYSC orientati...

Adamawa state House of Assembly Members on Monday, passed vote of confidence on Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, for the remarkable achievemets recorded in 2 years. Details later...

A 17 year old girl, Suweba Musa, of bye pass in Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa state would have been dead by now if not because of the timely intervention of a vigilante, Musa Abubakar. Suweba, narrowly escaped death by whiskers when 3 dreaded "Shila" boys, Jamilu Shuaibu (aka Bayinta), Abdulrazak Abubakar(aka Goska) and Baba (now at large) invaded their house and threatened to slaugther her by putting a knife on her neck. The teenager who cheated death was earlier sent on errand by her mother to buy clothes for her younger brother at a super market in Yola town by 7:00pm, on the 12th May, 2021. The young girl had while returning back from the super market, encountered the suspected "Shila" boys who stopped the tricycle conveying her and gave a dirty slap, and further threatened to kill her. As if that were not enough, the suspects trailed the young lady to their residence and intercepted her befere she could enter their house,  where they put a knife on ...

The governorship ambition of the member representing Ganye, Jada, Toungo, and Mayo-Belwa at the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas has been further solidified after a successful local government congress of the All Progressives Congress in Ganye, Saturday. Despite speculations of violence and tension within the party circle, stakeholders agreed to produce consensus candidates as members of the executive committee of the party. After painstaking hours of deliberations and consultations at the government lodge Ganye, Adamu Gombe, a candidate forwarded by Hon. Namdas emerged as the party’s local government chairman. Gombe is a former administrator of Gangdu Development Area, Ganye local government. Secretary of the electoral committee, barrister Hinekanyi Adiel, while briefing newsmen after the exercise said they are happy that the process ended successfully without any rancor. He commends the stakeholders for keeping their differences aside and agreeing on consensus which h...

As farmers are preparing to commence harvesting of their farm produce, the Adamawa state police command has taken steps towards preventing annual clashes between farmers and herders in some parts of the state. To this end, the police command led by its CP, A.A Alhaji, on Friday engaged community and religious leaders, senior stakeholders, vigilantes, representatives of grazers and farmers in Hong Local Government Area on the need to embrace the existing peace and strive towards the curtailment of annual bloody clashes. The CP had during the stakeholder engagement, hammered on the need for herders and farmers to peacefully cohabit and avoid deliberate actions that stir up provocation which result to clashes. He told the gathering that the police community sensitization/ awareness campaign is a framework aimed at preventing herders/farmers clashes in and around Adamawa. He saluted community and religious leaders and urged them not to relent in preaching peace and tolerance to their subje...