The Adamawa state government has received food and non-food items from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for onward distribution to victims of the recent flood disaster in Yola South LGA that claimed 25 lives. The items include 500 bags of 25kg rice, 500 bags of 25kg maize, 500 cartons of spaghetti, 50 cartons of seasoning cubes, 50 cartons of tomato paste, 50 kegs of vegetable oil, and 50 bags of iodized salt. Other items...

The Adamawa State House of Assembly has summoned all the 21 Local Government Council Chairmen in the state to appear on the floor of the assembly and account for their stewardship in the last year. The resolution followed a motion raised under matters of public importance by the member representing Numan Constituency, Pwamwakeno Makwando, and was unanimously approved by the lawmakers during Wednesday’s plenary. According to the resolution, the Council Chairmen will start appearing at the hallowed...

The ad-hoc committee of Yobe State House of Assembly on a bill seeking to repeal and re-enact anti-stigmatization law to provide compulsory premarital tests of hemoglobin genotype and viral hepatitis in the state has presented its report. After extensive deliberations on the recommendations of the committee by members, the House adopted the report. Hon. Kachalla Maina, chairman of the ad-hoc committee, said statistics have shown that Nigeria has forty million people living with sickle cell...