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Adamawa Jail Delivery Committee has declined pardon for about 35 convicted members of the dreaded "Shila" boys serving various jail terms at a particular correctional centre (names withheld) in the state. The committee headed by the Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa, refused to discharge the convicted " shila" boys when the convicts appeared before it, insisting that they must serve their various prison terms as handed down by various courts. NEWS PLATFORM gathered from 14 correctional centres that the number of the convicted "Shila" boys is far more than the aforementioned, and that those convicted are currently serving their jail terms at the various centres. The activities of the radical cult groups, who had assumed the status of a full-fledged terrorist groups more especially within the state capital during the recent past administration, were curtailed between 2020 and 2021 when Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri's administration came on board in 2...

The presiding judge of Lunguda Area Court sitting in Guyuk Local Government, Adamawa state, Hon. Jerrison Fawe, has been removed from office. Hon. Fawe, has been shown way out for convicting and sentencing a man to 3 years in prison without fair hearing and without option of fine. The Adamawa state Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa, removed the area court judge due to gross incompetence, and ordered him to report at the headquarters with immediate effect. Hon. Justice Nathan and Chairman Jail Delivery committee removed the judge when his committee stormed Guyuk correctional centre in continuation of prison decongestion on Thursday. The embattled judge, was said to have convicted the man and sentenced him to 3 years in prison when the convict was arraigned before his Honourable court over the allegation of exchanging words with his mother. The convict, who was among the inmates serving their separate jail terms at the correctional centre, was arrested and arraigned before the court ...

The presiding judge of Lunguda Area Court sitting in Guyuk Local Government Area, Adamawa state, Hon. Jerrison Fawe, has been removed from office. Hon. Fawe, has been shown way out for convicting and sentencing a man to 3 years in prison without fair hearing and without option of fine. The Adamawa state Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa, removed the area court judge due to gross incompetence, and ordered him to report at the headquarters with immediate effect. Hon. Justice Nathan and Chairman Jail Delivery committee removed the judge when his committee stormed Guyuk correctional centre in continuation of prison decongestion on Thursday.  The embattled judge, was said to have convicted the man and sentenced him to 3 years in prison when the convict was arraigned before his Honourable court over the allegation of exchanging words with his mother. The convict, who was among the inmates serving their separate jail terms at the correctional centre, was arrested and arraigned before ...

Barely 21 days of assumption of office, the Chairman Transition Committee of Gombi Local Government Council, Hon. Abdulrahaman Dauda Shanga, has distributed 12 brand new motorcycles to the PDP wards Chairmen of the LGA. The motocycles were distributed to the party leaders from Ga, anda, Gombi North, Gombi South, Garkida, Tawa, Yang, Gabun, Guyaku, Duwa, Boga Dingai political wards. Hon. Shanga, was said to have supplied the motorcycles and embarked on the rehabilitation of township roads with the revenues he generated within 21 days of his administration. Speaking while distributing the motorcycles to the beneficiaries in Gombi on Wednesday, the member representing Gombi constituency at the state House of Assembly, Hon. Japhet Kefas, commended Hon. Shanga for his commitment. Hon. Kefas, who is the Deputy Majority Leader of the assembly, told the gathering that the LGC boss has done what some of his predecessors could not achieve while on the helmp of affairs for years. The lawmaker who...

The Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee has freed 62 out of 234 inmates at Numan and Shelleng correctional centres respectively. The committee headed by the Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa, set free 57 out of 203 inmates at Numan correctional centre,  released 5 out of 31 inmates at Shelleng correctional centre and reviewed 7 cases. While addressing the discharged inmates, Hon.Nathan, appealed to them to engage themselves in a lawful activities, saying that they will not temper justice with mercy again if any one of them is re-arrested and brought back to the centre for one offence or the other. Hon. Justice Nathan Musa's committee had while in Numan LGA during prison decongestion on Wednesday, paid a courtesy call on the paramount ruler, the Hama Bachama, Homun, Dr. Daniel Ismaila Shaga. He briefed the royal father on the activities of his led committee across the state more especially at the correctional centres, and appealed for support for the inmates. Responding, the H...

Over 70 Women Leaders of the Peoples Democratic (PDP), Adamawa Central Senatorial Zone have thrown their weight behind the senatorial ambition of Barr. D. D. Azura, saying he is the best material for the zone come 2023. The women leaders cut across over 70 wards which comprise central zone, turned out in their numbers and declared their unalloyed support on the aspiration of the legal luminary, Barr. D.D Azura. The PDP women leaders endorsed Azaru, during their meeting at Adamu Atiku foundation's secretariat along Mubi road in Yola, the Adamawa state capital. During the meeting, the women leaders who were from Song, Gombi, Song, Girei, Fufore, Yola North and South LGAs, used the opportunity and met with the aspirant ahead of the primaries coming up later this year. In their separate remarks at the evemt, the women leaders described Azura as a credible and an acceptable aspirant who has large support of the people of the zone, insisting that he is the one that will deliver the zone ...

In continuation of prison decongestion in Adamawa State, the Jail Delivery Committee headed by Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa, has stormed Mubi and Maiha prisons respectively and set free 31 inmates including 6 women. During its assignment in Mubi correctional centre on Monday, the Hon. committee discharged 25 inmates including 5 women, summarily convicted 6, granted bail to 1 and reviewed 6 sentences downward. Hon. Justice Nathan's Committee was also at Maiha correctional centre where it met 37 inmates at the correctional centre and released 6 men and a woman. This brings total number of 240 inmates so far discharged at the Jimeta, Yola town, Mubi and Maiha Custodial Centres of the Nigerian Correctional Service since the committee has embarked on its assignment last week. Speaking after prison decongestion in Mubi and Maiha LGAs respectively, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa and Chairman of the committee, explained that some of the inmates discharged were wrongly convicted, others ...