Unionist Donates Water Pumps To Boost Dry Season Farming

InfrastructureLocal GovernmentNewsUnionist Donates Water Pumps To Boost Dry Season Farming

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 7, 2020

In a move to boost dry season farming in Yola South local government area of Adamawa State, Comrade Rodney Nathan  State Chairman Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has made a personal donation of about 30 water-pumps to four villages for irrigation to augment the shortfall in the rainy season. The benefitting villages are; Njoboliyo, Rugange, Njoboli, and koffare. The donation of the irrigation equipment was under his community Development pet project “Comrade Rodney Agricultural Empowerment...

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Gombe State Empowers 35 Communities with N380m

Local GovernmentNewsNigeriaGombe State Empowers 35 Communities with N380m

PilotnewsOctober 30, 2020

Gombe State government spent N380 million to support micro projects implementation in 35 communities across the 11 local government areas of the state in the last 16 months. Mr Abubakar Kumo, the General Manager, Gombe State Agency for Community and Social Development (GMCSDA), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Friday that the projects covered health, water, education and transportation sectors. He said it also covered the rural electrification, environment, social and...

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Motorists, Transport Workers Chide APC, Buhari Over Dilapidated Numan – Gombe Road

InfrastructureLocal GovernmentNewsNigeriaMotorists, Transport Workers Chide APC, Buhari Over Dilapidated Numan – Gombe Road

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)October 4, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz, Regional Correspondent As lives continued to lose due to accidents being recorded, motorists and residents of Adamawa State have condemned the Muhammadu Buhari led APC government for neglecting the Numan – Lafiya axis of the Yola – Gombe roads, now becomes a nightmare to commuters. In the last three days, following a heavy downpour, several vehicles were trapped on the road with many accidents due to deplorable conditions. In an interview...

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Fashola Urges Nigerians to Pay Attention to Who is Governor, Local Government Chairman than President

EconomyLocal GovernmentNewsNigeriaFashola Urges Nigerians to Pay Attention to Who is Governor, Local Government Chairman than President

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)October 2, 2020

The Nigeria Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has urged Nigerians to pay more attention to who is governor, who is local government chairman than who is president. The Minister gave this advice on Thursday while speaking at The Platform, an annual conference organized by Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos. The virtual event was hosted by Poju Oyemade, it was to commemorate the country’s 60th Independence Anniversary. The former Governor of Lagos State...

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Communities Battles With Snake Bites, Local Health Post Records 5-10 Cases Weekly

HealthLocal GovernmentNewsCommunities Battles With Snake Bites, Local Health Post Records 5-10 Cases Weekly

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 29, 2020

Dagza Community Health Post in Hong local government area of Adamawa state records an average of 5-10 cases of snake bites weekly. Investigation revealed that most of the casualties who are peasant farmers are from Dagza, Mombol, Zhedinyi, Kwakwa’ah and other neighbouring villages and the high rate of snake bites are usually recorded during the rainy season. It was gathered that the cost of Anti Snake Venom (ASV) produced by India for a single person...

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Fraud: Bauchi Govt Officials Arrested For Pension Scam,Forgery

CorruptionLocal GovernmentNewsFraud: Bauchi Govt Officials Arrested For Pension Scam,Forgery

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)September 20, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent Five officials of Bauchi state local government Pension Board officials have been apprehended for allegedly being involved in condemnable acts which include criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, misappropriation, forgery, and fraud. The development was confirmed in a statement on Saturday, September 19 by the spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Ahmed Wakili. Wakili noted that the suspects were arrested for alleged pension scam following a letter of complaint to...

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Katsina Sets To Rehabilitate Repentant Bandits

Crime & SecurityLocal GovernmentNewsKatsina Sets To Rehabilitate Repentant Bandits

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)September 18, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent Katsina State government has set up a committee for the rehabilitation of repentant bandits, Leadership newspaper reports. It was gathered that bandits who want to leave the forest where they have been practicing the nefarious activities would be resettled in a more convenient place being constructed by the government. The Secretary to the Government of the State, (SGS) Mustapha Mohammed Inuwa, stated this during a press briefing on security and...

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Zone Us to South-West – Okun People in Kogi Writes NASS

Local GovernmentNewsPoliticsZone Us to South-West – Okun People in Kogi Writes NASS

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)September 12, 2020

The Okun ethnic people in Kogi State have written to National Assembly to be relocated from the North-Central geopolitical zone to the South-West. They also demanded a separate state which would be made up of the Okun people and the core Yoruba speaking part of Kwara State. This demand was contained in a memorandum sent to the Senate Committee on the 1999 Constitutional Review, under the umbrella of Okun Development Association (ODA). The memorandum which...

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Crime & SecurityLocal GovernmentNewsFourteen Persons Confirmed Dead, 6 Injured in Kogi Attack

Beloved John (Staff Writer)August 31, 2020

Fourteen people have been confirmed dead, 6 injured in Agbudu community, Kogi state after some unknown armed men stormed the community on Wednesday. According to the state police commissioner, Ede Ayuba, who disclosed this while briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Lokoja, he was informed about the incident at about 2: 00 a.m. Mr Ayuba said that 13 of the slain victims were from the same family. “This morning around 2 a.m., my Area...

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Local GovernmentNewsPoliticsADC to boycott Ondo LG Rerun, Seeks Redress in Court

PilotnewsAugust 30, 2020

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) says it will not participate in the rerun of the local council poll scheduled to hold in weeks time in Ondo State. The State Leader of the party, Mr Bode Iwaloye, made the declaration at a press briefing on Sunday in Akure. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) had announced on Aug. 23 announced the cancellation of the council poll held...

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