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A 24-year-old girl in Adamawa state tragically took her own life after her boyfriend chose to end their relationship.

Jemima Shetima Balami, a second-year diploma student on industrial attachment with Adamawa State Television (ATV) Yola, drank a substance suspected to be rat poison, resulting in her untimely demise.

Jemima, a Mass Communication student of Federal Polytechnic Mubi, reportedly received the breakup news while visiting her boyfriend, believed to be a lecturer at Modibbo Adama University (MAU), Yola.

Sources said that she killed herself because she could not accept the breakup.

Jemima who hails from Garkida, in the Gombi local government area of Adamawa state, passed away in her home at Vinikilang, close to ATV Yola, where she was completing her industrial attachment.

Jemima was said to be the only daughter of her father, who unfortunately had to inform the police of her tragic demise.

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The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Suleiman Nguroje confirmed the incident on Monday, January 29, saying that while Jemima’s father simply stated a case of suicide, a separate source brought in the matter of Jemima’s soured relationship.

Nguroje said: “The father of Jamima reported that she committed suicide by taking a deadly substance. Another version had it that she visited her boyfriend, a lecturer at Modibbo Adama University Yola and was told to quit the relationship. Angered by the news of exiting her boyfriend, the deceased took poison.”

The PPRO assured that police operatives would diligently investigate the matter for necessary details.

Three suspected kidnappers have been killed in Adamawa state.

The Nation gathered that the state Police Command achieved the feat in a joint operation with some local hunters earlier when they also succeeded in rescuing two victims.

The Police Command said in a statement Thursday, January 25, that the operation was a product of the command’s renewed commitment to enhanced proactive strategies.

The statement, signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, recounted that on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, the command disconnected a criminal network at Koma Hill connecting part of Kojoli and Karlahi districts of Jada and Fufore local government areas of the state.

The statement shows how the police operatives and hunters worked: “The operation, which was carried out by the Command operatives attached to Crack Squad and hunters of Tabbital Pulaku Association yielded positive results.

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“The suspected kidnappers on 24/1/2024 stormed a cattle ranch of Alhaji Jibo Karlahi and whisked away Umar Jibo, 18 years, and Idi Hassan, 13 years old.

“The Command mobilized the rescue team and went after the kidnappers. Upon sighting our men, they engaged them in a gun duel. As a result, three of them were neutralized but others escaped with bullet wounds. Interestingly the two victims were rescued unharmed.”

The police added that the outcome derived from a strategy to checkmate offences bordering on kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling, and unlawful possession of firearms; disclosing that a pump action gun, a single barrel gun, and a locally fabricated revolver gun were recovered.

The Adamawa state police command has arrested six applicants seeking recruitment as police constables.

The state police public relations officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje disclosed this on Tuesday, January 23.

Nguroje stated: “Six applicants were apprehended during the screening exercise with suspected forged documents and are currently under investigation.”

He explained that the screening exercise will continue till the 29th of this month when a total number of 29,848 applicants from Adamawa State are expected to have been screened.

The Nation reports that the Command had last Friday, January 19, 2024, announced the arrest of four applicants over fake results, meaning that two additional suspects were picked up between that day and now.

Adamawa is on record to be the second state with the highest number of initial applicants for the ongoing nationwide recruitment exercise for prospective police constables.

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Kaduna led the pack with a total of 40,272 applicants against Adamawa’s 36,398; while Borno State had the third-highest number at 32,048.

The records further have it that Anambra had the least number of applicants -1,664; while Ebonyi had the second least number of 2,132; with Lagos state having the third smallest number of applicants: 2,324.

The figures however represent the original number of applicants before many were dropped due to overage and some other considerations before the physical and certificate screening began.

Five days after a woman was killed in a hotel by her male partner in Yola, the Adamawa State Government has ordered all hotels operating in the state to install Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras.

The suspect was said to have taken the woman to Happy Day Inn, Jimeta, allegedly beheaded her and fled with the head on January 18.

About 70 registered hotels in the state said to have no CCTV cameras risk going out of business as a result of the new order.

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At an emergency meeting with hotel owners yesterday, Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, said: “Protection of life and property of the citizens is the Fresh Air Government’s top priority.”

The Chief of Staff to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, Edgar Amos, who also spoke, announced that a committee had been constituted to go round all hotels and ensure that they installed CCTV cameras.”

Chairman of Hoteliers Association in the state, Samuel Aduata, assured of the union’s resolve to avoid further killing around any hotel.

A fire incident has destroyed 19 shops, which housed 1,900 bags of assorted grains, at a market in Gombi, a prominent town located 123 kilometres north of the Adamawa state capital, Yola.

Speaking on the incident, Mallam Umar Nyalli, the Secretary of the affected grains market union, revealed that an unknown smoker triggered the destructive fire by discarding a burning cigarette near a pile of waste materials close to the shops.

He said: “The businesses of the 19 shop owners have been paralyzed. Nothing could be retrieved from their wares. We lost bags of maize, groundnuts, guinea corn, sesame seeds, beans, and tamarin fruits to the inferno.”

He appealed for help from governments at all levels and from public-spirited individuals.

The state deputy governor, Professor Kaletapwa George Farauta, who commiserated with the affected traders, said the losses were huge.

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She, however, asked the traders to believe that God would revamp their businesses and asked relevant authorities to enlighten citizens to shun improper handling of fire.

The Nation reports that the Gombi incident was the second of its type in two weeks within Adamawa State.

A wildfire on the 6th of this month destroyed wares in 10 shops near the Federal College of Education, Yola.

In the Yola incident, someone had set fire to a nearby bush, resulting in the spread of an inferno to the ill-fated shops.

The 10 members of the Numan local government council in Adamawa state, who were previously in a dispute with the council chairman, Christopher Sofore, have declared a ceasefire.

Earlier in the week, these councilors issued an impeachment notice against the chairman, citing allegations of financial misappropriation and administrative lapses.

However, they have now announced a cessation of hostilities, attributing their decision to a deeper understanding of the issues at hand, as clarified through the intervention of key stakeholders.

Nzashi Linus, the Leader of the Numan Legislative Council, emphasized during a news briefing in the state capital, Yola, that he and his fellow council members had been enlightened about the fact that the crisis primarily stemmed from a communication gap between them and the council chairman.

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Linus said: “While we appreciate the intervention of prominent sons and daughters, we have resolved to work with the Executive arm in the interest of peace, Numan LGA and Adamawa State as a whole.”

Appreciating the concerned Adamawa people for their intervention, Linus said the resolution of the crisis between the Legislative and Executive arms of the Numan Local Council was helped by the notion that the council must be seen to be a true reflection of the peaceful posture of democracy in Adamawa State.

“We resolved to ensure that the right thing is always done as Numan is bigger than all of us as a people of the local government area, which is the objective and core value of democracy and the society,” Linus said.

Fire has destroyed a popular multi-shop supermarket in Numan, a major town in Adamawa state near the capital, Yola.

The Nation gathered on Thursday, January 11, that the fire affected all the seven shops in the highly famous IFY Supermarket on the busy major street, Ahmadu Bello Way, Numan

According to a witness account, the destructive fire engulfed the shops in the early hours of Wednesday due to electricity upsurge experienced in the community at the time.

Some of the victims who narrated their ordeal, said they had lost all they had to the fire.

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They appealed for help in restoring their means of livelihood.

The state Deputy Governor, Professor  Kaletapwa Farauta and House of Representatives member from the area, Hon Kwamoti Laori, are among prominent personalities who had visited the place by Thursday afternoon.

Both described the incident as a great loss not only to the shop owners but also to the Numan people.

Farauta, conveying the sympathy of the state government to the victims and the entire Numan community, said the government was with them in their trying times. 

A foremost philanthropist, Dr Emmanuel Musa, has paid the bills of all patients in the largest state-owned hospital in Adamawa, the Specialist Hospital, Yola.

Musa, who carries out his philanthropy through a charity organisation named Emnamu Foundation, made the rounds of the wards at the Specialist Hospital Thursday doling out cash as the respective patients needed, irrespective of the political, social, economic and ethno-religious backgrounds of the patients.

The Emnamu Foundation President was received by the hospital Managing Director, Dr. Ibrahim Wadinga who took him round all the wards at the hospital.

Thanking God for the opportunity to reach out to the patients at this critical time, Emmanuel Musa said it is his hobby to touch the lives of less privileged people.

“I don’t know how much I donated to patients because I don’t want to recall what I have spent. This is because I did it from my heart; I did it between me and my God,” he said.

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Emmanuel Musa, a known name around Adamawa State for frequently reaching out to people with donations and interventions of various kinds, had earlier in the week commissioned three blocks of classrooms for basic and secondary education which he had reconstructed at Yolde Pate Correctional Center, Yola.

He had reconstructed the classrooms, burnt down about 18 years ago, following an appeal for his intervention by the stakeholders of the community.

Commenting on the gesture, the Controller of  the Adamawa State Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Ahmed Abdu Usman, said the reconstructed classrooms would be of immense benefit to the community.

He appealed to people of the community to pray for the philanthropist for empowerment for even greater acts of giving.