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Adamawa, Governors, Headlines, State News, Taraba
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja Former governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna, has said that the alleged plan to remove from office, the governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, is wicked, callous and irresponsible. Haruna, who suffered a similar fate in the twilight of his days in office during the power tussle between former President Olusegun […]
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Adamawa, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
ANGERED by the massacre at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, National Chairman of the ruling Peoples, Democratic Party, Bamangar Tukur, on Thursday asked the Federal Government to put an immediate stop to indiscriminate killings in the land. Some gunmen on Monday night stormed an off-campus residence of the students and called them out for […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
GUNMEN midnight Monday stormed an off-campus residence of students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, and shot dead 23 students. Also, three other persons, including a retired soldier, a guard and father of a student, lost their lives in the orgy of killing with a total of 25 felled victims. The murdered students were […]
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Adamawa, Africa & World Politics, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 27th, 2012
From DAVID MOLOMO, Adamawa Corpses of 15 persons swept away by flood, which followed heavy rains and unexpected release of water from Lagdo Dam in the Republic of Cameroon have been recovered from River Benue in Adamawa State. Daily Sun gathered that relations of victims recruited divers to help fish out bodies from the river. […]
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Adamawa, State News
Monday, May 28th, 2012
By Umar Yusuf Yola— Tension is mounting in Adamawa State as Igbo traders, yesterday, shut shops and other businesses to protest the killings of their kit and kins. The protest over the killing of an unidentified Igbo man almost turned violent as the protesters clashed with security agents. Most of the major streets in Yola, […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Monday, May 28th, 2012
KANO (AFP) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group on Monday in the city of Yola, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks. Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out scores of shootings and bomb attacks in northern, but it was not immediately […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
From DAVID MOLOMO Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Fleeing from the military heat in Maiduguri, Borno State, Boko Haram may have relocated to neighbouring Mubi in Adamawa State. But soldiers pursued the Islamist sect members to the town on Monday. In an encounter, 11 people were killed. They include seven militants, a police Inspector, a soldier […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News
Friday, March 9th, 2012

By SaharaReporters, New York Unknown gunmen opened fire at a car dealership in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday afternoon killing the police officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state. Eyewitnesses told Saharareporters that the assailants might have trailed the senior police officer to the scene. The officer, Mohammed Ali, was a […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
BY UMAR YUSUF YOLA – Admiral Murtala Nyako of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been re-elected Governor of Adamawa State in the governorship elections conducted yesterday. Declaring the results in Yola Sunday, the Returning Officer for the election, Professor Mohammed Hamisu Mohammed announced that a total of 685,103 votes out of the 1,843,619 voters […]
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Adamawa, Governors, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
THE Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Umaru Fintri, has commenced formation of his cabinet, sacking, in the process, Mr. Kobis Ari, former Secretary to the State Government under the defunct government of Murtala Nyako. The new SSG, Prof. Liman Tukur, had been chairman of the Adamawa Universal Basic Education Board, prior to his sack […]