AIPDC Acquire 2000 Hectares of Land For Bio-fuel Project In Adamawa

BioFuel & Green EnergyNewsNigeriaAIPDC Acquire 2000 Hectares of Land For Bio-fuel Project In Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 18, 2021

Adamawa Investment and Property Development Company Limited have acquired twenty thousand hectares of land along Mayo Belwa and Numan axis for the execution of a Biofuel project in the state. Inspecting the site Thursday, the Managing Director of the company Rabi Yahya Ahmed said the project in which is a collaboration between the Adamawa state government and Nigeria National Petroleum NNPC is to provide alternative fuel using ethanol byproducts of sugarcane. “The project will provide...

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Police In Adamawa Apprehends Pick Pocketers, Recovers 1,293,000 CFA, One Golf vehicle

Law & JusticeNewsPolice In Adamawa Apprehends Pick Pocketers, Recovers 1,293,000 CFA, One Golf vehicle

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 18, 2021

The Adamawa State Police Comand sad on the18/3/2021, Operatives of the Command attached to Mubi South Division, While on Visibility policing along First Bank road, in Mubi south local government, arrested a  notorious pocket picker (DAN TSANE). According to the image-maker of the command, DSP Suleiman Yahya Nguroje in a statement that the suspect  DANJUMA MUHAMMED 49years, a resident of Aderawo ward, Song local government, trailed his target, Buba Bello, into a Tricycle from First...

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Tongue Lashing: Politicians, Retired Public Servants Behind Conflicts Across Nigeria

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsTongue Lashing: Politicians, Retired Public Servants Behind Conflicts Across Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 17, 2021

There are accusations and counter-accusation of those behind the various forms of conflict in Nigeria as the national president of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural organization, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, says desperate politicians were the brains behind ethnoreligious crises in the country. However, Bakut Bakut, Director General Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) has accused retired public servants of causing communal conflicts across Nigeria. The duo made their positions in different fora. Bodejo during the...

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United Nations Launch $1b Appeal For 6.4m Vulnerable People Of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaUnited StatesUnited Nations Launch $1b Appeal For 6.4m Vulnerable People Of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 17, 2021

The United Nations is appealing for $1 billion to help 6.4 million of Nigeria’s most vulnerable people, including two million who have been forced to flee their homes because of armed conflict. The bulk of the money will be used to provide life-saving assistance to millions of people in Nigeria’s northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe due to activities of Boko Haram, which began in 2009. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for...

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Federal Government To Establish Federal Medical Centre, Mubi

EducationInfrastructureFederal Government To Establish Federal Medical Centre, Mubi

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 17, 2021

Following the conversation of Federal Medical Centre FMC Yola to a University Teaching Hospital, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani, Senator representing Adamawa Central in the National Assembly has sponsored a bill for the establishment of a Federal Medical Center (FMC) to be sited in Mubi. Recall that Senator Dahiru had sponsored the conversion of the Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola to a conventional university and sponsored another bill that will upgrade FMC Yola to...

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DPR Seals Filling Stations In Kwara State For Over-pricing, Under-dispensing

BusinessNewsNigeriaOil & GasDPR Seals Filling Stations In Kwara State For Over-pricing, Under-dispensing

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), on Tuesday, in Ilorin, sealed up five filling stations for various offences including over-pricing and under-dispensing. The development was the result of the monitoring exercise of over 35 filling stations across the metropolis. Speaking with journalists shortly after the exercise, the controller, Ilorin field office of the DPR, Engineer Sule Yusuf, said there was no fuel scarcity or plan to increase fuel price in the country. “We observed that...

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Central Bank of Nigeria Introduced New Charges For USSD Services

EconomyMoneyNewsCentral Bank of Nigeria Introduced New Charges For USSD Services

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

ABUJA — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced new charges for customers using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services. The apex bank has announced that from Tuesday, customers will pay N6.98 per transaction every time they use USSD services. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Osita Nwanisobi, and Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ikechukwu Adinde. The statement read in part “Effective March...

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Niger State House of Assembly Reinstate Council Chairman, Suspends Vice-Chairman, 9 Councillors

Local GovernmentNewsNigeriaPoliticsNiger State House of Assembly Reinstate Council Chairman, Suspends Vice-Chairman, 9 Councillors

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

Niger State House of Assembly has directed the reinstatement of the embattled Chairman of Shiroro local government, Suleiman Dauda Chukuba. It would be recalled the Chairman was suspended over a petition on the allegation of the misappropriation of N50 million tenement rate among others. The reinstatement follows the recommendation of the report of the House Committee on local government on the crisis of Shiroro local government area presented during plenary. Presenting the report, the Committee...

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200 Street Beggars And Almajiris Arrested In Kano

LifestyleNewsPoverty200 Street Beggars And Almajiris Arrested In Kano

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr. Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, Kano state says 200 street beggars and almajiris were arrested for allegedly violating the law banning street begging in the state. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr. Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, Kano state made this known to newsmen on Monday the ministry arrested the beggars and almajiris in Kano metropolis with 60 per cent being women, children and men, and 30 per cent...

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Abduction of School Children Aim To Destroy Education In North-University Dons

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsNigeriaAbduction of School Children Aim To Destroy Education In North-University Dons

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

The Dean, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Yahaya Korau Kajuru, said the abduction of school children is a grand design to destroy whatever success that the North has recorded in the education sector. He noted that it was a ploy to prevent Northern children from going to school and the implication was obvious for everyone to predict. “Unfortunately, our leaders don’t seem to understand what is going on, or they have...

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