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  • Adamawa deputy gov, commissioners clean up Yola

    Adamawa deputy gov, commissioners clean up Yola

    The deputy governor of Adamawa state, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, and other members of the State Executive Council (SEC) have cleaned up the state capital, Yola.

    The deputy governor, with a broom and other cleaning items in hand, led the commissioners into the streets on Wednesday, December 20, clearing drains and removing refuse and other unsightly objects.

    The exercise was seen as a demonstration of the resolve of the government to make Adamawa a cleaner state.

    Speaking during the exercise, Farauta reiterated the government’s determination to ensure that blocked drainages and carelessly dropped refuse are evacuated regularly.

    She appealed for more persons to participate in environmental sanitation to support the drive for a cleaner state.

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    The state commissioner of environment, Mohammad Sadiq Mohammad, who also spoke, said every effort was being made to achieve the desired goal of a cleaner and healthier Adamawa State.

    Our correspondent reports that the Adamawa State Deputy Governor had only on Tuesday, December 19, ordered the state Urban Planning and Development Authority to remove illegal posters, refuse dumps, and illegal billboards from across the state.

    Farauta who gave the order while inspecting illegal refuse dumps in the state, expressed concern over heaps of illegal dumps in parts of Yola, posing a threat to traffic safety and environmental health.

    She had expressed the worry that some of the illegal posters and billboards erected on public structures are positioned in ways that obstruct the view of road users, causing accidents, especially at night.

  • 22-year-old lady kills self over lover’s death

    22-year-old lady kills self over lover’s death

    A young lady in Adamawa state, Florence Vandi, has killed herself over the death of her lover.

    The 22-year-old Florence was said to have taken the deadly poison called ‘Otapipiyaya’ and gave up the ghost shortly after her lover, Nuhu Boniface, died in a hospital.

    The late Florence Vandi, who was an indigene of Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State was living at Viniklang in Girei Local Government Area where she was working at a primary health care centre.

    The Adamawa State police command confirmed the fact of Florence Vandi’s death, saying in a statement that she “committed suicide on Tuesday, December 12 while protesting the death of her boyfriend.”

    The statement which was obtained by The Nation Wednesday morning did not clarify why Florence chose to end her own life other than the gloom of losing a loved one.

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    Our correspondent gathered from a neighbour of the deceased, however, said that she had expressed helplessness about life without Nuhu Boniface.

    The neighbour said Nuhu Boniface had actually earlier died of poisoning he contacted at a beer parlour.

    The statement from the state Police Command, signed by its image maker, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said the Police received a report that Florence Vandi committed suicide by drinking Otapiyapiya.

    The police said in its statement: “The deceased took the unfortunate decision a few hours to the death of her boyfriend known as Nuhu Boniface who died while receiving treatment at the hospital.

    “Investigation further revealed that until her death, Florence was a health worker attached to Girei Primary Health Care Centre.

    “The Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola who expressed sadness over the incident, advised members of the public to avoid taking laws into their hands.”

  • 17-year-old boy arrested for alleged intimacy with cock in Adamawa

    17-year-old boy arrested for alleged intimacy with cock in Adamawa

    Operatives of the Adamawa state police command have arrested a 17-year-old boy for alleged intimacy with a cock.

    The command, describing the act as an ‘unnatural offence’, said in a press statement on Friday, December 8, that the arrest of the boy resulted from a complaint made to the police by one Esther Dimas.

    In a statement passed to newsmen by the state Police image maker, SP Suleiman Nguroje, the police said the complainant, a resident of Viniklang in Girei local government area, said she caught the boy in the act.

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    Nguroje stated: “Another 17-year-old suspect identified as Lawali Mori, a resident of Viniklang, has been arrested for having unlawful carnal knowledge of a cock against the order of nature.”

    The Police Public Relations Officer said the suspect had confessed that he sexually assaulted the cock, even as he could not explain his reason for such an action.

    Nguroje said the state Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola, had directed a discreet investigation into the strange act.

  • Assembly passes bill raising judicial officers’ retirement age to 65

    Assembly passes bill raising judicial officers’ retirement age to 65

    The Adamawa State House of Assembly has enacted a bill for a law to increase the retirement age of judicial officers to 65 years

    The bill, passed yesterday, also stipulates that the benefitting officers can now spend 40 years in service.

    Until now, such officers spend a maximum of 35 years in service or 60 years of age, depending on which one occurs first.

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    The passage of the bill followed a motion to that effect by the Majority Leader, Kate Raymond Mamuno (Demsa) and seconded by the Minority Leader, Umar Suleiman Alkali (Yola North).

    After the passage of the bill, Speaker Bathiya Wesley directed the clerk of the House to prepare a clean copy for the attention of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri.

  • Police kill two kidnapp suspects in Adamawa

    Police kill two kidnapp suspects in Adamawa

    • Raid criminals’ hideout

    The police in Adamawa State, working with local hunters, have dislodged criminals’ hideout and killed two suspected kidnappers.

    The command, in a statement yesterday, said the operation was carried out on Sunday.

    The statement by spokesman Suleiman Nguroje said police operatives and hunters disconnected the criminal network operating in parts of Taraba, Adamawa, Gombe, Yobe states, as well as Republic of Cameroon.

    The statement said: “The planned operation was carried out by the command’s operatives attached to a crack squad in a joint operation with hunters.

    “The outcome of these successes followed up on collaborative strategies designed by the command to checkmate cases bordering on kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling, unlawful possession of firearms, among others.”

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    It said the police operatives and collaborating hunters had on November 30 designed a security ring around some identified hideouts.

    “The effort paid off on December 3 when the suspected kidnappers, upon sighting the security operatives, engaged them in a fierce gun duel, as a result of which two of them were killed, while others escaped with bullet wounds,” the statement added.

    It said four AK-47 rifles and 92 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the suspects.

    Police Commissioner CP Afolabi Babatola, who appreciated his officers and men as well as the hunters for their gallantry, directed them to go after those on the run and ensure their arrest and prosecution.

  • 175 trained Adamawa artisans receive startup kits

    175 trained Adamawa artisans receive startup kits

    Artisans who received training in various trades in Adamawa State have received free startup kits to practise their respective trades.

    The beneficiaries are 175 adolescents, among them 100 girls and 75 boys who were trained in computer appreciation, catering, fashion designing, carpentry, shoe making, and barbing.

    The Save Our Children International who organized the training and empowerment programme with funding from another NGO, Education Cannot Wait, said the beneficiaries were adolescents who concluded their basic education but could not go further and need vocational skills and business funding for sustainable livelihood.

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    During the graduation ceremony of the vocational training program in Yola, the Adamawa State Team Leader of Save the Children International, Abdulrashid Muhammed, said, “Young people who have come out of basic education and cannot go further along the western education line must not stay idle, hence the decision to bring them into this program.”

    He said the intensive vocational training which took the beneficiaries several months and the startup kits advanced to them were intended to make the adolescents self-dependent.

    The Adamawa State Commissioner of Education and Human Capital Development, Dr Garba Umar who represented Governor Ahmadu Fintiri during the graduation ceremony of the vocation skills training, said the organisers had helped the government to remove many citizens from joblessness.

  • 175 trained Adamawa artisans receive startup kits

    175 trained Adamawa artisans receive startup kits

    Artisans who received training in various trades in Adamawa State have received free startup kits to practise their respective trades.

    The beneficiaries are 175 adolescents, among them 100 girls and 75 boys who were trained in computer appreciation, catering, fashion designing, carpentry, shoe making, and barbing.

    The Save Our Children International who organized the training and empowerment programme with funding from another NGO, Education Cannot Wait, said the beneficiaries were adolescents who concluded their basic education but could not go further and need vocational skills and business funding for sustainable livelihood.

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    During the graduation ceremony of the vocational training program in Yola, the Adamawa State Team Leader of Save the Children International, Abdulrashid Muhammed, said, “Young people who have come out of basic education and cannot go further along the western education line must not stay idle, hence the decision to bring them into this program.”

    He said the intensive vocational training which took the beneficiaries several months and the startup kits advanced to them were intended to make the adolescents self-dependent.

    The Adamawa State Commissioner of Education and Human Capital Development, Dr Garba Umar who represented Governor Ahmadu Fintiri during the graduation ceremony of the vocation skills training, said the organisers had helped the government to remove many citizens from joblessness.

  • Groups strategise for FOI Act domestication in Adamawa

    Groups strategise for FOI Act domestication in Adamawa

    Groups keen on promoting the functionality of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in Adamawa State have stepped up efforts at achieving the aim.

    The Northeast Humanitarian and Innovation Hub (NEHIH) which is piloting the efforts, organized a townhall meeting on the Act in Yola to obtain a buy-in by interest groups deemed vital for the domestication in the state.

    The story of the Freedom of Information Act dates back to 1999 when it was first presented to President Olusegun Obasanjo shortly after he assumed power, but it took untill 2011 for President Goodluck Jonathan to sign it into law immediately after it was passed by the National Assembly; but so many years down the line, the Act remains substantially inactive.

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    The Yola townhall meeting on the FOI Act which attracted critical stakeholders in the advocacy of freedom of information shared views on how to domesticate the FOI Act in Adamawa.

    The engagement by the NEHIH was in collaboration with the Digital Rights and Information Partnership (DRIP) Cluster, aimed at achieving the objectives of the USAID Strengthening Civil Advocacy and Local Engagements (SCALE) project.

    Adamawa State USAID-SCALE Project Focal Person and NEHIH Program Manager, Vanessa Nyingifa-Williams said in her opening remark that the engagement was meant primarily to advocate the passage of the FOI Act in Adamawa State.

    She said freedom of information is vital to improve public accountability, transparency and sustainable service delivery in Nigeria.

    “The USAID SCALE project seeks to empower civil society organizations, local advocates, and communities to engage with local government structures, advocate for policy changes, and drive accountability in governance,” she added.

    Vanessa who said only two states in Nigeria: Imo and Ekiti have domesticated the bill, said she was hopeful that Adamawa State would be the third.

    She said that the process had long been initiated at the state House of Assembly and that the prospects were bright.

  • Police recruitment: Kaduna, Adamawa, Borno lead in online application

    Police recruitment: Kaduna, Adamawa, Borno lead in online application

    By Gbenga Omokhunu and Sophia Anumaka, Abuja

    Kaduna state is currently leading in the number of applications already received in the ongoing recruitment exercise for General Duty Constables into the Nigeria Police Force.

    20,259 Kaduna state youths have already completed the online applications to lead the table while Anambra State leads from behind with only 541 applications.

    Following, Kaduna State at the top are Adamawa State with 18,933 applications; Borno State with 18,305; Bauchi State, 16,554; Katsina State, 16,232 and Kano State, 15,888.

    According to a statement issued on Wednesday, October 25, by the Head Press and public relations of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Ikechukwu Ani said: “Next to Anambra State from the rear are; Ebonyi, 737; Abia, 966 and Imo 999. Bayelsa, has 1020; Enugu, 1036; Lagos, 1259; Delta, 1338 and Edo 1526.

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    “Meanwhile 242, 391 males have already completed their applications while only 35,405 females have registered their presence.”

    Ani said the chairman of the commission, Solomon Arase, has expressed concern about the continued disinterest of South East youths in pursuing a career in the Nigeria Police Force.

    “Dr Arase noted that the South East, currently a hotbed for non-state actors’ rebellion in the country should have been at the forefront to join the Nigeria Police Force and bring the indigenous solution to the menace.”

    He called on the leadership of the zone to find a way of convincing its youths to embrace the opportunity the ongoing recruitment has provided.

    The PSC chairman said it will be difficult for anybody to listen to cries of marginalisation from leaders of the zone if they choose to remain indifferent to the Government’s generous decision to offer employment to Nigerian youths in the Police Force.

    Arase said they should maximize the remaining five weeks open for their youths to get onto the train.

  • Adamawa offers incentives for dry season farming

    Adamawa offers incentives for dry season farming

    The Adamawa State Government has offered incentives to encourage massive dry season farming in the coming months.

    The government announced the incentives, stressing its readiness to support dry season farming to mitigate the effects of famine.

    Commissioner of Agriculture, Professor David Jatau, who represented Governor Ahmadu Fintiri during the ‘Mega Farmers’ Brown Field Day’, said erratic rain and destruction to farmlands by floods in recent past are ominous for famine.

    “We are set to support dry season farmers with all the inputs they will need,” the commissioner said.

    The Mega Framers Brown Field Day, held in Demsa, an agrarian community in southern Adamawa, was organized by Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity (IAA) when improved farming activities funded by USAID was inspected by implementing organisations, namely the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

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    The Deputy Chief of Party of the IAA, Mr Olukayode Faleti, who represented the Chief of Party, Mr Prakash Silwal, said the Mega Farmers Brown Field Day was about reviewing the success of USAID-funded Feed the Future programme.

    “We are approaching harvest when we see the result of our efforts. We are here to see how our farmers have practiced what we taught them as shown in the quality of their crops,” Mr Faleti explained.

    A highlight of the event was a tour of demonstration farms belonging to some beneficiaries of the programme 

    The District Head of Demsa, Chief Fidelis Ali, affirmed that the farmers in his domain who embraced the improved seedlings and advanced farming techniques introduced through the Feed the Future/IAA programme have done well in their farms.