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  • Another boat accident claims 11 lives in Adamawa

    Another boat accident claims 11 lives in Adamawa

    Another boat accident in Adamawa State has claimed 11 lives.

    This would be the third boat accident in eight days in a state where such accidents were rare.

    The boat capsized at a community in Yola South Local Government Area on Saturday. A resident, Kwatan Mallam Adamu, in Fufore Local Government Area (LGA), said  said 11 bodies had been removed from the water by divers

    Another resident, Dahiru Gurin, said: “About 40 passengers crammed into the boat to get home before today’s downpour. Unfortunately midway, strong wind and thunderstorm set in, causing the boat to capsize.”

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    The information Officer of Fufore LGA, Abdullahi Jangai said divers had so taken out 11 bodies from the water.

    Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, ADSEMA, Dr Mohamed Suleiman, could not confirm the casualty figures.

    The ADSEMA boss said it was too early to say so as rescue efforts were still on.

    On Monday, last week, in Mayo Belwa LGA, there was a similar incident in which two persons died.

  • 42 freed, 27 get bail in Adamawa

    42 freed, 27 get bail in Adamawa

    Adamawa Jail Delivery Committee, led by Justice Hafsat Abdulrahaman, has freed 42 inmates, and granted 27 bail, in its statewide assignment.

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the committee launched the exercise on yesterday at Yolde-Pate Correctional Centre, Yola-South Local Government.

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     Justice Abdulrahaman performed a summary trial of two awaiting trial inmates, and convicted them to five years imprisonment each, for criminal conspiracy and robbery.

     Musa Gambaki, head of the centre, said it has capacity for 800 and housed 865 inmates.

     Gambaki said of the number, including 20 women, 11 were on death row, and 653 awaiting trial for robbery, kidnapping, among others.

  • 11 die in another Adamawa boat accident

    11 die in another Adamawa boat accident

    Another boat accident in Adamawa State has claimed 11 lives.

    This would be the third deadly boat accident in eight days in a State where such accidents were rare.

    A boat capsized at a community in Yola South Local Government Area on Saturday with the casualty put at 10.

    A state official recalled another accident last Monday in Mayo Belwa LGA where two deaths were recorded.

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    A resident, who narrated the latest incident in Kwatan Mallam Adamu, in Fufore LGA, said it occurred Monday afternoon, with11 bodies removed from the water by local divers
    The resident, Dahiru Gurin, said: “About 40 passengers crammed into the boat to get home before today’s heavy downpour. Unfortunately midway, strong wind and thunderstorm set in, causing the boat to capsize.”

    The information Officer of Fufore LGA, Abdullahi Jangai said divers had taken out 11 bodies from the water so far.

    The Executive Secretary of Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, ADSEMA, Dr Mohamed Suleiman, was definite with the casualty figures.

    The ADSEMA boss said it was too early in the rescue efforts to correctly give figures.

  • Eight confirmed dead in Adamawa canoe accident, fate of seven unknown

    Eight confirmed dead in Adamawa canoe accident, fate of seven unknown

    The Adamawa State Government has confirmed recovery of eight bodies after a canoe accident in Yola South Local Government Area of the state.

    The government also said eight of the passengers had been found alive while search for seven others was still on.

    A boat carrying 23 passengers had capsized on Friday at a river in Yola South local government area, but neither the government nor the police could give detail by Friday night, insisting that rescue efforts were still at infancy.

    Officials of the state government however gave an update of the canoe accident Saturday afternoon, when they paid a visit to the scene of the accident.

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    The Executive Secretary of Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, ADSEMA, Dr Mohamed Suleiman, who gave the latest figures to newsmen, assured that rescue efforts were still on to determine the fate of the passengers who were yet to be seen.

    Addressing relatives of those affected by the accident, the Deputy Governor said the government had arrived at a decision to provide life jackets for canoe users.

    She advised operators of canoes to monitor weather conditions, including likelihood of rain and storm before embarking on any journey, in the light of attribution of the Friday accident to a stormy rain.

    She also warned against overloading of canoes to reduce likelihood of accidents.

  • Adamawa confirms eight dead, seven missing in canoe mishap

    Adamawa confirms eight dead, seven missing in canoe mishap

    The Adamawa State Government has confirmed recovery of eight bodies after a canoe accident in Yola South Local Government Area.

    The government also said eight of the passengers had been found alive while search for seven others was still on.

    A boat carrying 23 passengers capsized on Friday at a river in Yola South local government area but neither the government nor the Police could give details by Friday night, insisting that rescue efforts were still at infancy.

    Officials of the State Government however gave an update of the canoe accident Saturday afternoon when they paid a visit to the scene of the accident.

    The Executive Secretary of Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, ADSEMA, Dr Mohamed Suleiman, who gave the latest figures to newsmen, assured that rescue efforts were still on to determine the fate of the passengers who were yet to be seen.

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    Addressing those affected by the canoe accident, the Deputy Governor said the government had arrived at a decision to provide life jackets for canoe users.

    She advised operators of canoes to monitor weather conditions, including likelihood of rain and storm before embarking on any journey, in the light of attribution of the Friday accident to a stormy rain.

    She also warned against overloading of canoes to reduce likelihood of accidents.

  • Adamawa flays attribution of cervical cancer to witchcraft, launches intervention project

    Adamawa flays attribution of cervical cancer to witchcraft, launches intervention project

    The Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Prof Kaletapwa Farauta, has discredited attribution of cervical cancer to witchcraft, expressing regret that the erroneous belief system is ruining the fate of many women afflicted with the disease.

    Farauta, who represented Governor Ahmadu Fintiri on the occasion of the inauguration of a committee to tackle cervical cancer and other sexual and reproductive health issues, said the cultural belief in many localities that symptoms of cancer are signs of enemy attacks make sufferers go to witch doctors rather than quickly seek medical care.

    “Due to the usual delay in seeking the right intervention, cervical cancer patients are only taken to hospital when the cancer is already too advanced for cure,” she said, stressing that any enlightenment that can remedy such situation must be embraced.

    The Nation reports that cervical cancer develops in a woman’s cervix (the entrance to the uterus from the vagina due most often to a common virus transmitted through sexual contact, which typically manifests in unusual vaginal bleeding and vaginal discharge but treatable if diagnosed early.

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    The Adamawa deputy governor spoke during the Inception Meeting of the Reproductive Health and Pandemic Resilience Project (RHPR), a project funded by the Government of Germany through its RfW Development Bank and currently being implemented in Adamawa and four other states: Taraba, Katsina, Zamfara, and Kebbi, by MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices.

    The project is designed to reduce maternal deaths, expand integrated health services that include family planning, cervical cancer, menstrual health, as well as norm change interventions, according to the Country Director of MSI Nigeria, Emmanuel Ajah.

    Ajah explained that the project seeks to empower women and girls to make high quality sexual and reproductive health choices.

    The Federal Government of Nigeria provides leadership and supervisory oversight for the programme at the national level while in Adamawa State, the Ministry of Health, through the Adamawa State Health Care Development Agency, provides the necessary oversight.

  • 17 feared dead as canoe conveying 23 people capsizes in Adamawa

    17 feared dead as canoe conveying 23 people capsizes in Adamawa

    Seventeen people are feared dead after a boat conveying 23 passengers capsized in Adamawa State.

    An eyewitness, Faisal Rugange, said the boat conveying the locals capsized in Njuwa Lake across Rugange village in Yola South Local Government Area just before noon on Friday, when the victims were going to Yola town for business.

    Faisal said via the phone late on Friday, “It was raining when the accident happened. A heavy windstorm blew water into the boat and it capsized instantly.”

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    He added that although the local boat was carrying more than 20 passengers, only six were rescued by local divers.

    Confirming the incident, the Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency management Agency, Mohamed Suleiman, said one person died and five had been rescued but 17 others were yet to be seen.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said the command had deployed Marine police officers to help in the rescue operation.

    He said he could not give the actual number of those in the ill-fated boat as rescue operation was still on.

  • 17 feared dead as canoe capsizes in Adamawa

    17 feared dead as canoe capsizes in Adamawa

    Seventeen people were feared dead after a boat conveying 23 passengers capsized in Adamawa State.

    A witness, Faisal Rugange, said the boat conveying locals capsized in Njuwa Lake across Rugange village in Yola South Local Government Area just before noon on Friday when the victims were going to Yola town for business.

    Faisal said via the phone late on Friday: “It was raining when the accident happened. A heavy windstorm blew water into the boat and it capsized instantly.”

    He added that although the local boat was carrying more than 20 passengers, only six were rescued by local divers.

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    Confirming the incident, the Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency management Agency, Mohamed Suleiman, said one person died and five had been rescued but 17 others were yet to be seen.

    Adamawa Police spokesman SP Suleiman Nguroje, said the command had deployed Marine police officers to help in the rescue operation.

    He said he could not give the actual number of those in the ill-fated boat as rescue operation was still on.

  • Tech hub trains Adamawa kids on robotics, coding, others

    Tech hub trains Adamawa kids on robotics, coding, others

    A technology hub in Adamawa State has trained some young people on robotics, coding, graphic and web designs, and other computer-based programmes.

    Beneficiaries of the intensive four-week holiday coaching classes, who received their certificates of proficiency during a ceremony in Yola on Saturday, made presentations on the robotic manoeuvering as well as the birthday and wedding cards as well as business and education fliers that they produced during the training.

    The firm, Discovery Hub Labondo, which organised the programme, said it was meant to equip young Nigerians to live with the world rather than behind it.

    In his remark during the graduation ceremony, co-founder of the Discovery Hub Labondo, Julius Jesse Mbidomti, said, “There is a huge knowledge gap in Africa. The Americans, the Europeans and the Asians have moved far ahead. Progressive countries are looking into the future. We need to train our young ones to think, learn and act like them.”

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    The training from which 21 beneficiaries graduated on Saturday, termed Codellenium Summer Boot Camp, was coordinated by Ms Kadwama Deborah Lazarus, the Programme Director who, giving further insight to what the children learnt during the workshop, said they learnt how to code, using a particular language for kids called Scratch, and that they also learnt power point presentation skills.

    Explaining that the trainees were aged seven to 17 years, Deborah said, “Technology is taking conventional jobs away from people and our young ones need to go with the quickly changing times.”

    A beneficiary of the training, Miss Usiju Stephen Medugu, said the training has changed her mindset and skills status.

    The 14-year-old Usiju said about an aspect of her new knowledge, “I had no idea before now how posters and fliers were made. Now, I know. I now also know about robotics and how to program it.

  • Adamawa debacle: Before we crucify NBC

    By Adewale Onasanya