THE Federal High Court in Jalingo, Taraba State capital has dismissed a case of certificate forgery against the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha. Justice Bala Usman also struck out the case that borders on false information tendered to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against Bwacha for “lack of sufficient evidence.” Delivering the judgement late Saturday night in the suit filed by Chief David Sabo Kente, a Chieftain of the APC in Taraba and an aspirant at the last governorship primaries of the party in the state, Justice Usman said that the…
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THE presidential campaign train of the All Progressives Congress (APC) berthed in Gusau, Zamfara State yesterday with the party’s flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,dismissing alleged soiled relationship between him and President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu, with whom were the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and Governors Bello Matawalle (Zamfara), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) and Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), told the rally that his support for President Buhari is “unalloyed and enduring”. He promised to tackle the various problems bedeviling the state and enhance its agricultural productivity. In his prepared speech which he could not read because of the crowd, Tinubu…
A TOTAL of N64bn has been approved for the Nigeria Police Force as operations fund for security management for the forthcoming general elections. This is as the Force Headquarters has dispatched anti-riot weapons, water cannons and Armoured Personnel Carriers, among others, to the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory to ensure watertight security during the elections. Police sources confirmed that all the commands and formations across the country had got their share of the arms and ammunition unveiled by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, in Abuja, last week. The sources, however, noted that the total…
THE preponderance of out-of-school children in Kebbi state was a source of concern that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar addressed today at the party’s ongoing nationwide electioneering campaign tour. Alhaji Abubakar told a large gathering of party supporters in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi state capital, on Saturday that this problem will be part of many that his administration will tackle headlong once he is voted into office. He said the large number of out of school children in the state is a huge source of concern to the PDP, asserting that as part of his youth…
THE immediate past governor of Adamawa state, Senator Muhammad Umar Jibrilla Bindow (Sardaunan Mubi) has officialy joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Bindow made the declaration during the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar’s campaign in Kebbi, Kebbi state, Saturday. According to Bindow, he is the first APC elected govenor in Adamawa state but it gladdens his heart to return to his home, the PDP. “We are formerly PDP members. We made a mistake of leaving but today, we have learnt our lesson, and we are gladly back to the PDP. The peoples party, the party…
GOVERNOR Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has presented gifts of two brand new cars to the overall best winners of the 26th Gombe State Qur’an Recitation Competition. The competition was held at Billiri, between 27th November and 3rd December, 2022. The overall winners who received the gift from the governor are: Mubarak Muhammad Aruwa from Gombe Local Government who emerged Overall Winner of 60 Hizb with Tafsir in male category and Aishatu Kabiru Shu’aibu from Akko Local Government who emerged overall winner, 60 Hizb with Tafsir in female category. Governor Inuwa also presented cheques for the Gombe State participants who won prizes…
GOMBE State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has sent his heartfelt condolences to his Nasarawa State counterpart, Engr Abdullahi Sule over the demise of his son, Hassan AA Sule, whose sad event occurred Thursday. Hassan, 36, was the first son of Governor Sule. Governor Inuwa, in a statement signed and issued by the Director-General of Press Affairs to the governor, Ismaila Uba Misilli, Saturday morning, described the death of Hassan as deeply painful and devastating, especially to his parents, friends and associates giving his incredible personality and spirit. The Governor however consoled Governor Sule and his family to take heart and…
THE governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement in Adamawa State, Abba Aliyu Maina, is dead. He was confirmed dead on Thursday, one month to the general election. Afuye Olusola, national publicity secretary of the party, announced the development in a statement on Thursday. The NRM candidate was said to have died on Wednesday, same day the PDP Guber candidate in Abia, Prof Eleazar Ikonne died at the National Hospital, Abuja. “The leadership of the National Rescue Movement and that of Adamawa state chapter in particular with heavy heart announce the death of Alhaji Aliyu Abba Maina, the party’s governorship…
THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Thursday, assured the people of Bauchi State and Northern Nigeria that the oil discovered in the state will be used to develop their state and region. He made the pledge at the party’s presidential campaign rally at the Tafawa Balewa Stadium in Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi State, North-Eastern Nigeria. “We know what is happening in Bauchi today. We want the oil discovered in Bauchi to be used to develop Bauchi, and to give you jobs. We will make sure that oil is used to develop Bauchi, to develop the…
THE Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned the trial of a former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode and three others to April 25th. The prosecuting counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN) told Channels Television that the lead counsel to the former minister Norrison Quakers (SAN) had written to the court seeking an adjournment of the case to enable him to attend to some urgent personal issues. In response to our enquiries, Mr Oyedepo noted that the senior lawyer is not given to frivolous adjournments and so the EFCC was not opposed to…
FOLLOWING the Federal High Court’s Judgement that dismissed the suit instituted against Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its Governorship Candidate, Muhammed Jibrin Barde, youths from different walks of life across the state, earlier today held a rally to celebrate this victory and show their unflinching solidarity for the governor’s reelection bid. Speaking while receiving the enthusiastic youths at APC Square, Gombe, the Chief of Staff Government House, Alhaji Abubakar Inuwa Kari said, the rulling did not come as a surprise, because the plaintiff had no moral justification nor proof to support his false…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Katsina, his home state on a two-day official visit to commission some selected projects executed across the three senatorial districts of the state. News Point Nigeria gathered that the presidential aircraft conveying the number one citizen and his entourage touched down at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Airport, Katsina on Wednesday at about 10pm where the executive governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari led members of his cabinet to receive them. Buhari arrived Katsina after the 2nd Dakar International Conference on Agriculture in Dakar, the Senegalese capital. The projects to be commissioned on Thursday and Friday…
THE Gombe State Executive Council, presided over by Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved over Thirty Eight Billion Naira ( 38bn) as contract sum for the construction of seventeen (17) roads and some bridges across the State Briefing newsmen at the end of the SEC meeting, the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Mr. Meshack Audu Lauco listed the projects as follows: the Kaltungo General Hospital road network awarded at the cost of Five Hundred and Seventy Seven Million, One Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninteen Naira; 3 span Bridge at Titi to Stangayari at the cost of Two…
GOMBE State has recorded its index case of Lassa fever. Commissioner for Health, Dr Habu Dahiru, said in Gombe on Wednesday that the lady travelled to Wukari in Taraba during the 2022 Christmas season. “On her return to Gombe, she started running temperature and was admitted at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe where she tested positive to Lassa fever. “Prior to the case, the state’s rapid response team was activated and drugs were provided in anticipation of any outbreak, the commissioner told newsmen at the close of the state cabinet’s weekly meeting. He added that immediately the laboratory confirmation that…
THE Borno State governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday received the second batch of additional 855 Nigerian refugees repatriated from neighbouring Cameroon. The refugees were handed over to him by Cameroonian officials led by the Governor of the Far North Region of Cameroun, Minjinyawa Bakari, at a brief farewell ceremony in Maroua. Bakari while presenting farewell packages consisting of food and non-food items announced the closure of this phase of repatriation totalling 1,300 refugees. Zulum, on behalf of Nigeria, thanked the Cameroonian president, other officials and host communities for taking good care of the Nigerian refugees in the last nearly…
GOVERNOR Nasir El- Rufa’i of Kaduna State has lamented that the huge amount of money being spent by the Federal Government to subsidise electricity, petrol and foreign exchange is no longer sustainable if the country must be able to tackle most of its socio-economic problems. Speaking at the 12th Kaduna State Council on Health meeting, El-Rufai disclosed that the Federal Government spent N6 trillion on fuel subsidy for six months, N4 trillion to subsidise the naira and N300 billion to subsidise electricity in 2023. The governor, while noting that the the N6 trillion on fuel subsidy is a quarter of…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to commission at least seven state government projects when he arrives at his home state Katsina on an official visit on Thursday and Friday. According to sources familiar with the president’s itinerary, projects to be commissioned include two multi-billion naira underpass at Kofan Kwaya and Kofar Kaura areas. Others include the overhead bridge located at the Government Reservation Area (GRA) roundabout, Katsina, new headquarters of the state internal revenue board, and the rehabilitated state waterboard in the state capital. Buhari will also commission the Darma rice processing company as well as the rehabilitated state General Hospital,…
THE Katsina State Government has declared Thursday, 26 and Friday, 27 January, 2023 as work-free days to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to the state. The government said it declared the two-day public holidays to enable state, local government councils and local education authorities’ workers to come out en masse to receive the president. This was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Culture and Home Affairs, Sani Bala Kabomo, Wednesday. President Buhari is expected to be in Katsina on a state visit, during which, he will inaugurate some projects executed by Governor Aminu Bello Masari-led…
A 62-year-old man, Bamuwa Umaru, has been nabbed by the Kano State Police Command for attempting to secure the release of a suspected kidnapper, Yusuf Ibrahim. The spokesperson for the Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna, on Tuesday, said Umaru was arrested after he offered a bribe of N1 million to a policeman for the release of the suspect. Haruna said the suspect upon preliminary investigation confirmed partaking in a series of kidnappings at villages in Katsina and Zamfara states and also confessed that their syndicate group killed up to 10 of their victims out of which he singlehandedly killed two. “On…
FOUR Palace staff (Dogarai) of Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Elkanemi, have died from a fatal motor accident on Maiduguri-Damaturu highway. The deceased were burnt beyond recognition while three other persons escaped the crash with life-threatening injuries. The incident occurred on Monday in Benishiek area, along Maiduguri- Damaturu Highway when the Borno monarch and his entourage were travelling out of Maiduguri, and one of the vehicles in the convoy summersaulted and caught fire. The burnt bodies of the four palace aides were evacuated back to Maiduguri while the survivors were taken to Accident and Emergency Unit of…