Umaru Al-Makura, Nasarawa state governor, has set up a 10-man committee to investigate the abandonment of the N5.4 billion Farin-Ruwa Independent Power Plant project.The hydro-electricity power project was awarded in May 2004 by senator Abdullahi Adamu, a former Nasarawa governor.The initial project cost was put at N5.4 billion with a completion period of 36 months.The project, whose execution cost was [...]
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Two people lost their lives following a gas explosion along Jos road, Lafia, Nasarawa state capital, on Monday.The tragic incident happened around 10am. Workers were said to be offloading gas at Natson filling station when it exploded.The incident was attributed to gas leakage. Vehicles, shops and offices were destroyed in the inferno.Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) and [...]
The Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) has declared candidates of All Progressive Congress (APC) as winners of Saturday’s local government election.Henry Omaku, chairman of the electoral body, announced the results of the poll on Sunday at the commission’s headquarters in Lafia.He said three political parties; All Progressive Congress (APC), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Advanced Democratic Party (ADP) fielded [...]
Suspected herdsmen have reportedly killed seven internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Awe local government area of Nasarawa state.Peter Ahemba, president of the Tiv Youth Organisation in the state, confirmed this to NAN on Wednesday.He said the attackers had ambushed the victims on Tuesday while on their way to pick foodstuff in Ihukan.The village is said to be deserted as a [...]
Some internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Agwatashi, Obi local government area of Nasaraw, stoned the convoy of Umaru Tanko Al-Makura on Tuesday.Al-Makura had visited the camp with security chiefs in the state to assess situation arising from the killing of 32 persons by suspected herdsmen.TheCable gathered that when the governor was about to address the IDPs, some youth in the [...]
Inside the classroom block located at the far end of the school, there are about 200 persons seated, waiting to register as voters. There are also officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and local security operatives hovering around the prospective voters like a swarm of bees. The school is Central Pilot Primary School, Karu in Nasarawa state, one [...]
Aliyu Akwe Doma, former Nasarawa governor, is dead, Mamman Alakayi, a former information commissioner in the state, has confirmed.Alakayi told NAN that 75-year-old Akwe died in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday.“I got a call from the late governor’s son, Umar, this evening, that Baba Doma died in an Israeli hospital at about 7:45 p.m. Nigerian time,” he said.Alakayi said the [...]
The Nasarawa state police command has confirmed the killing of seven persons in a night on Kadarko, a village in Keana local government area of Nasarawa state.According to Kennedy Idirisu, public relations officer in the state, the victims were killed by gunmen that invaded the village on Monday.He described the incident as “saddening”, saying a special police team had been deployed [...]
Eighty percent of teachers in Nasarawa state are not qualified and would fail an aptitude test, Tanko Al-Makura, governor of the state, said on Monday.He said this in his speech at the opening ceremony of a conference to review the minimum standards of the National Certificate of Education (NCE).Al-Makura said government had carried out some research and found that most primary [...]
The Nasarawa state government has frozen the accounts of all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) for not complying with the directive to submit their account balances.Zakka Yakubu, the state’s accountant general, made this known in Lafia, the state capital, on Thursday.Yakubu said his office wrote all MDAs to submit their balances from various accounts and to also make refund of [...]
The police command in Nasarawa state on Monday said two of its officers were killed by gunmen along the Akwanga-Keffi federal highway.Kennedy Idirisu, public relations officer of the command, confirmed the incident to the NAN in Lafia.According to Idrisu, the policemen were stationed at Kubere village, some few kilometres away from Gudi, along the Akwanga-Keffi highway, when the gunmen attacked [...]
Zakari Umar, the executive director of Nasarawa State Aids Control Agency (NASACA), said 54 babies delivered between January and September tested positive for HIV.Umar made this known on Thursday in an interview with NAN.He said out of the 1,194 pregnant women who keyed into the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) HIV programme in 2017, 54 of them transmitted the virus [...]
Haruna Osegba, Nasarawa state commissioner of local government and chieftain affairs, says more than 60 per cent of local government workers in the state receive salaries for doing nothing.Osegbe, who met with members of the correspondents chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state, said the government was worried that the salaries of local government workers were being paid [...]
The police command in Nasarawa state has confirmed the abduction of Hussaini Akwanga, a former minister of labour and productivity.Akwanga served during the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo but was removed on December 4, 2003, following an alleged $214 million national identity card scam.Kennedy Idirisu, spokesman of the Nasarawa state police command, who confirmed the abduction in Lafia on [...]
The Nasarawa state police command has arrested two persons in connections with a mob action that led to the death of Ayuba Ali, a soldier.Ali died on Monday at the Akwanga area of the state.Kennedy Idirisu, the command’s spokesman, confirmed the arrest to NAN in Lafia, the state capital.Idirisu said available information revealed the victim, who was on pass from [...]
The Nasarawa state government has invoked the the 'no work no pay' policy on striking public sector workers, Thomas Ogiri, the state head of service, announced on Thursday.Ogiri said in a statement issued in Lafia that the action was in line with the labour law which stipulated that workers on strike would not be entitled to wages or remuneration throughout [...]
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