No fewer than 32 people were feared dead on Sunday evening when gunmen suspected to Fulani insurgents gunned down some Eggon villagers in an ambush at Arikya-Soni in Lafia East Development Area of Nasarawa State at about 3pm. It was gathered that the villager were returning from from their farm when the suspected Fulani gunmen, […]
Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, on Sunday confirmed that he would quit the Federal Executive Council on October 20. Maku said his decision to cease to be a minister was to allow him pursue his ambition of becoming the governor of Nassarawa State in 2015. He spoke during a thanksgiving service he organised at […]
By Our Reporter on August 18, 2014 · Breaking News, Trending (LAFIA) Palpable tension has gripped Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, after the Peoples Democratic Party’s lawmakers in the state House of Assembly, who fled the state weeks ago, returned in a long vehicles of cars led by siren blaring outriders. The legislators, who fled […]
Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Al-Makura | credits: feelfree.co The Nasarawa State House of Assembly and the state Chief Judge, Justice Justice Sulaiman Dikko, may be heading for a showdown over the composition of the seven-man panel put in place to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Governor Tanko Al-Makura. The assembly wants Dikko to dissolve the […]
eets Jonathan over impeachment threat By JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja on July 22, 2014 · National President Goodluck Jonathan, at the weekend, met with embattled Governor of Nasarawa State, Tanko Al-Makura, during which he told the governor that he had no hand in his current travails. Impeachment move has been instituted against Al-Makura by members of […]
By Levinus Nwabughiogu Solomon Ewuga is the senator representing Nasarawa North in the Senate. He is said to have provided the “platform”upon which Umaro Tanko Almakura stood to become the governor of Nasarawa State in 2011. Meanwhile, things have changed and Ewuga has jilted their common political party, the APC, for the PDP. In this […]
Scores of people were on Thursday killed in a Fulani settlement near Keana, in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State in a gun duel between soldiers and suspected Fulani cattle breeders. Many were also said to have been wounded during the incident which occurred barely 24 hours after the military deployed troops in Benue […]
President of the Senate, David Mark, on Sunday, described the level of insecurity in the country as “intolerable”. In a statement, Mark particularly flayed the killings of policemen in Nassarawa State, saying the action was unacceptable. He said, “The situation has degenerated to an intolerable level and exposes everybody to danger. The continued loss of […]
Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and his counterpart in Benue, Gabriel Suswan, on Thursday briefed the Presidency on the precarious security situation in their states. While Al-Makura briefed Vice-President Namadi Sambo on the killing of over 20 policemen by members of a cult group in Alakyo Village, about 10 kilometres from Lafia, the state capital, […]
Democracy Day in Nasarawa State turned into a day of lamentation for the state governor, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al’Makura, who expressed frustration over payment of N17 billion Paris Club loan his government never took. The governor said since he took over power a year ago, he has been battling with triple tragedy of having to […]
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