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By: Victor Kwambuge  In just over a year, the people of Adamawa State will again exercise their constitutional responsibility by electing a new leadership to determine the political and developmental direction of the state for the next four years. Unlike previous electoral cycles, the 2027 elections will not be driven primarily by party symbols or political familiarity. Rather, they will function as a referendum on governance standards, political learning, and the electorate’s capacity for informed choice. There is little dispute that the outgoing administration has recalibrated public expectations. Under the leadership of Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, governance has been characterised by visible outputs and relative policy coherence.  Investments in infrastructure, education, healthcare, and institutional reforms have shifted public discourse from abstract promises to concrete performance indicators. Consequently, voters are no longer mobilised by rhetoric alone; they now demand demo...

By Peter Cheman Koti In Nigeria’s most fragile spaces, peace rarely arrives with fanfare; it is often stitched together slowly, by people who know how to listen when a room is tense and how to speak when silence becomes dangerous.  Dr. Ishaya Inuwa Durkwa has built a reputation around that kind of work: a practitioner shaped by lived experience and driven by an insistence that communities can heal when dialogue, dignity, and justice are treated as essentials rather than ideals.  As Executive Director of the International Organization for Peacebuilding and Social Justice (PSJ), he presents himself first as a bridge-builder, committed to fostering coexistence across ethnic and religious lines and advancing systems where equity and fairness prevail.  His peacebuilding instincts are rooted in a life story that moved through Nigeria’s fault lines and taught him early that deprivation and exclusion are not just economic conditions, they are conflict accelerators. Profiles of hi...

Adamawa State Judicial Service Commission has announced the appointment of 20 judges for High Courts, Sharia Court of Appeal and Customary Court of Appeal. News Platform  The newly appointed high court judges include, Aliyu Bakari, Ibrahim Ulenda Musa, Daniel John, Aminu Sa'adu, Christie Ngbale Tarfa, Abdulrazak Adamu Abdullahi and Mohammed Buba,  Others include Mohammed Hammajoda, Sadiq Giwa, Musa Mijinyawa Bala, Shehu Uthman Mustapha, Umar Isa, Yakubu Ahmadu and Japhet Ibrahim. Judges appointed for Sharia Court of Appeal include Ishaq Abdullahi Jada, and Abubakar Ishaku Likewise, those appointed for Customary Court of Appeal are Awamem Medan Fwa, Dimas Elshama Gwama, Deborah Umaru Peter and David Benjamin Pembi.

By Demola Bakare fsi Abuja-Nigeria. Nigeria’s crisis of accountability is not rooted in the absence of laws. It is rooted in the uneven courage to apply them. Allegations of forged academic or professional credentials in public office are not new. What is new—and deeply troubling—is the growing public perception that the consequences of such allegations depend less on the offence itself and more on the status of the accused. This perception strikes at the heart of Nigeria’s anti-corruption efforts and raises uncomfortable questions about selective justice, institutional integrity, and the credibility of public office. Under Nigerian law, falsification of credentials is neither trivial nor ambiguous. The Criminal Code Act (Sections 463–465) criminalises forgery and the uttering of false documents, prescribing penalties that include imprisonment. The Penal Code, applicable in the northern states, contains similar provisions. Beyond criminal statutes, the 1999 Constitution (as amended) se...

The Chief Magistrate Court I sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on Thursday, remanded a 19 years old Istifanus Bitrus, for allegedly attempting to kill 9 years old boy for money ritual. News Platform  Magistrate Kabiru Musa, ordered the remand of the Istifanus who hails from Garkida community in Gombi LGA, following his arraignment before the court. The presiding judge remanded the defendant and adjourned the case to the 18th February, 2026 to await legal advice from DPP Ministry of Justice Adamawa State. Istifanus allegedly took his victim known as Friday Musa, to the river side and pushed him into the said river with an intention of making sacrifice with him on the 31st January, 2025. The defendant, who was arraigned for alleged criminal charm and attempt to commit culpable homicide, was said to have been ordered to do so by his spiritual father. The offences according to the First Information Report tendered by ASP Zakka Musa contravene sections 188 and 201 of the penal code law Ada...

The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State and former Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Dr Kayode Fayemi, has dismissed as false a report claiming that he is holding a closed-door meeting with former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, at his Abuja residence. The claim was circulated on X (formerly Twitter) by a number of social media handles such as “June 12 Movement” and “ADC Vanguard” alongside a resurrected old video clip showing Fayemi greeting Senator Kwankwaso at his residence. In a statement issued by the Fayemi Media Office on Wednesday, Fayemi described the report as a blatant lie that must have surprised Senator Kwankwanso equally and urged the public to disregard it.  According to the statement, ‘’Dr Fayemi has only met Senator Kwankwaso once in the last one year, and that occasion was at the public book launch of former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN). ‘’At no time has Dr Fayemi held, or is he holding, any clo...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of Muhammad Said Musa, a former official of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), for making false statements through the use of forged academic and service certificates. The conviction was handed down by Hon. Justice B. Mandy Bassi of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, sitting at Court 55, Asokoro, Abuja, following a one-count amended charge pursuant to a plea bargain agreement entered into by the defendant. The court found that Musa fraudulently obtained and presented a forged Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree certificate in Political Science, purportedly issued by the University of Maiduguri, as well as a forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Certificate of National Service, which he used to secure employment with the NIPC. The offence came to light after the ICPC received a request from the Executive Secretary of the NIPC for a Staff Verificati...