SP Kennedy Idirisu, the command’s spokesman, told newsmen on Monday in Lafia that the politician was abducted by gunmen from his Lafia residence around Tudun Kauri at about 8:00pm on Sunday.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Minister of State for Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibrin, on his selection as the new Emir of Nasarawa, in Nasarawa Local Government Area, Nasarawa State.
Osegba, who was represented by Bala Sani, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, said this in Lafia on Thursday after the State Joint Account Allocation Committee meeting.
The Nasarawa State Chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria says it is deeply concerned by non-release of funds for the state’s contingent to the 19th National Sports Festival.
Alegbe said the accident occurred at Gako community in Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of the state on Thursday night.
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has approved the dismissal of Dr Silas Gyar, Rector of Nasarawa State Polytechnic Lafia.
Addressing the court, counsel to the claimants (pensioners), Sunday Okpale, said that his clients were being paid monthly pensions in percentages since September 2016.
The arrest of Blessing came almost a year after her sister, Joy Odama was alleged to have been killed by an Abuja based businessman, Alhaji Usman Adamu.
Al-Makura gave the commendation on Thursday in Keffi at the launch of the 227.4km project by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.
Magaji Amos, the state Head of Cash Transfer Unit of the programme, disclosed this at a meeting with Civil Society Organisations on Thursday in Lafia.
Faustina Alegbe, the state sector commander, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lafia on Wednesday that the move would prevent fatigue and accidents on the roads.
Speaking to newsmen in Lafia on Tuesday, he said that the recent abduction of health workers and other criminal activities in the area was affecting socio-economic activities.
Al-Makura, in a letter to the lawmakers, said that the supplementary budget was to enable his administration complete ongoing projects.
Dr Bulus Umaru, the state Chairman of the association, told newsmen on Thursday in Lafia that six facilities belonging to members of the association had been sealed by the council.
Two students from Lagos State nine-year-old Lawal Kehinde and Idowu Ayomikun, 11, have won the 5th Lafarge Africa National Literacy Competition.
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, on Thursday, celebrated his 66th birthday at the Comprehensive Special School with the physically challenged in Lafia.
The Governing Council of the College of Agriculture, Lafia has approved the sack of the institution’s Registrar, David Musha, and Bursar, John Adara.
The NDE Director-General, Dr Nasiru Ladan-Argungu, made this known at the orientation of 450 trainees of four schemes of the agency in Nasarawa State on Wednesday.
The Nasarawa State Chapter of the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria has commenced an indefinite strike following the failure of the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Suleiman Dikko, to meet their demands on welfare issues.
The project, conceptualised in 2001 with the intention of providing no fewer than 20 megawatts electricity to Nasarawa State, was stalled due to paucity of funds.