Tag: Adamawa State
Nigerian Sports Festival: Round Up
Ondo female basketball team through to q/finals The Team Ondo female basketball team on Saturday secured a place in the…
Ex-governor Haruna loses bid to quash charge
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former governor of Adamawa state, Mr. Boni Haruna on Thursday failed in his bid to stop…
Boko Haram bombs army convoy in Mubi
Mubi, the nigerian town in Adamawa state, where scores of students were slaughtered on independence day, is back in the…
Supreme Court decides Nyako’s fate 20 November
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Supreme Court on Monday fixed November 20, 2012 to deliver judgment in an appeal brought…
Nigerian soldiers accused of atrocities in Mubi
Nigerian troops have been accused of indiscriminate shootings and other abuses in Mubi, where gunmen this month massacred 40 people,…
D’banj Condemns Aluu, Mubi Killings
Music star, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj has described the killings of four University of Port Harcourt undergraduates…
Registrar: Mubi Massacre not linked with students’ election
The deputy registrar of Federal Polytechnic Mubi, where a massacre of students happened early Tuesday has denied the link between…
Shame Of A Nation
After a lull in the activities of cultists in Nigerian tertiary institutions and even outside them, the death of over…
Death toll rises in Mubi Massacre
The death toll in the shocking massacre of Polytechnic students in Mubi, Adamawa state, north east Nigeria, has increased to…
Nigeria: 32 Students Massacred
At least 32 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, have been killed. Though our correspondent said…
Another Boko Haram commander killed in shootout
A Nigerian Boko Haram sect commander known as Abubakar Yola has been killed by Nigerian soldiers in a shootout while…
Gunmen kill 4 Nigerian villagers
The Lamurde Local Government Authority in Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, has confirmed the death of four persons following an attack…
Death toll rises in Adamawa flood caused by Cameroon
The death toll from flooding in Adamawa state, north eastern Nigeria after heavy rain and the release of water from…
Nigeria: Flooding kills 10, displaces 20,000
Flooding in north-eastern Nigeria has killed at least 10 people and displaced an estimated 20,000 following heavy rains and the…
Adamawa least developed Nigerian state
Nigeria’s Adamawa State, home of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, ranks lowest on the country’s human development index in education,…
Gunmen kill 2 guests of PDP boss
Unidentified gunmen have killed two persons in Mubi, Adamawa state. One other person was injured in the attack on Sunday…
3 clerics docked for fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned three clerics before Justice M. S. Shuaibu of the Federal High…
3 feared dead in fresh attack in Adamawa
Three persons were feared dead when unidentified gunmen Thursday attacked the Gulak Divisional Police Station in Madagali Local Government Area…
Herdsmen massacre villagers, burn homes
Pene Da Bwatiye, the umbrella body of Bwatiye people of Adamawa, said 12 villages were affected in Sunday’s attack in Lamurde Local…
Boko Haram’s Bomb factory found in Adamawa
Nigerian authorities have discovered a house allegedly being used by the militant Boko Haram to manufacture bombs in the country’s…
INEC blocks ACN lawyers access to poll materials
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in Adamawa State have blocked lawyers of the Action Congress of Nigeria from…
Oil tanker explodes, kills 12
A tanker crashed then later exploded and caught fire in in a village in Adamawa state, killing no fewer than…
Top NDLEA Officer, Colleague Gunned Down
An outstanding officer at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who received several awards for intercepting multi-million naira worth…
Nigeria: 5 Die as Patrol Van Ambushed
Gunmen opened fire and threw explosives at a military and police patrol in northeast Nigeria, killing a policeman, a soldier…
Scrabble: Federation Ready For Adamawa Tourney
Nigeria Scrabble Federation, NSF, is set to kick start their programmes for the 2012 season with the Kwete Scrabble tourney…
Groups Protest Removal Of Female Deputy Speaker
Women groups, on Monday, held a rally in front of Adamawa State House of Assembly to protest the removal of…
Jail break In Nigeria’s Adamawa State
A jail break has been reported by the News agency of Nigeria in Adamawa State, in Nigeria’s north east. …
Jail Break in Yola Prison
A jail break has been reported by the News agency of Nigeria in Adamawa state, in Nigeria’s north east. The…
Cholera Kills 100
The Adamawa State government has confirmed the death of 100 people in different parts of the state from a cholera…
Gov Oni’s Tenure Ends Next Year —Court
Justice A.L. Allaogoe of the Federal High Court sitting in Jos ruled today that the tenure of Governor Olusegun Oni…