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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
AS survivors of the Boko Haram attack on the town of Mubi continued to flee, a family man, who fled to Kano, has told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BB)C Hausa in an interview that parents were forced to collect N5,000 and surrender their daughters to the insurgents. Similarly, a woman, who also fled to […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has renamed Mubi as ‘Madinatul Islam,” meaning the city of Islam. The action is further confirmation that the sect was in total control of the town which it recaptured last week after troops stationed there withdrew. Boko Haram had earlier hoisted its flag in some parts of the town, including […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Fighting between Nigerian troops and Boko Haram insurgents escalated in Mubi, Mararaba Mubi and Uba in Adamawa State on Wednesday. Casualty figures could not be obtained as of 8pm but the development forced the state government to impose 24-hour curfew on the affected communities. Our correspondents gathered that Mubi, the second largest town in the […]
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Adamawa, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
By Umar Yusuf Yola— Defying the purported ceasefire agreement between the Federal Government and Boko Haram Islamic sect, the terrorists, yesterday, overran Mubi, the commercial nerve centre and second biggest town in Adamawa State as well as other neighbouring towns and villages, killing many residents who were unable to escape. Many of the soldiers and […]
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Adamawa, Governors, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
| credits: http://kingsscribe.blogspot.com/ The newly sworn in Governor of Adamawa State, Bala Ngilari has described his emergence as a divine intervention of God, pledging to partner with other stakeholders to create an enabling environment for peace and progress in the state. He stated this in his acceptance speech Wednesday, while taking his oath of […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
By Kingsley Omonobi, Umar Yusuf & Ndahi Marama The Defence headquarters declared yesterday that the troops were in full control of Mubi, the second largest city in Adamawa State, even as no fewer than 70 insurgents were said to have been killed by local hunters and vigilante groups. A Defence Headquarters, DHQ tweet yesterday read, “Mubi […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, September 8th, 2014
By Kingsley Omonobi, Umar Yusuf, Caleb Ayansina Yola— Anxiety, panic gripped residents of Mubi, the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State, yesterday, as news spread that Boko Haram insurgents were closing in on the town. This came as the military vowed that the onslaught to checkmate activities of the terrorists will not stop until they […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Friday, August 29th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu were instrumental to the granting of waiver to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu by the PDP in Abuja on Friday, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. With this, Ribadu is cleared to take part in the party’s September 6 governorship primary in Adamawa State […]
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Adamawa, Africa & World Politics, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 21st, 2014
HOW did ousted governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Hammanyero Nyako, escape from Nigeria a few hours before his impeachment despite the presence of eagle-eyed security agents waiting to arrest him to answer for his actions? – See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nyako-beat-security-escaped-britain/#sthash.J65nm9N7.dpuf This is a question that has continued to prop up within the security establishment […]
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Adamawa, Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 18, 2014 – In all democratic societies, there are mechanisms put in place to checkmate the excesses of their leaders. This is in accord with the maxim of Lord Acton that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Fortunately, Nigeria, like most countries, has one of such […]
