•Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar recently hosted the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, at his residence in Adamawa State. Atiku disclosed this in a video shared on X.com yesterday. His caption read, “It is breakfast time with my friend, #PeterObi, in the ‘land of beauty.” The video featured ...
Adamawa government yesterday confirmed the outbreak of cholera with 12 deaths recorded. The Commissioner for Health, Chief Felix Tangwami, who confirmed the outbreak in a statement in Yola, said that out of 50 samples of suspected cases, 30 were positive. Tangwami said that six of the deaths were recorded at a facility, six occurred at [&he...
•Council chairmen take oath of office Adamawa State today, Monday, July 15, inaugurated the newly elected chairmen for its 21 local government areas. The chairmen were declared winners yesterday, July 14, following the statewide council election held on Saturday, July 13, reports The Nation. In line with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) pre-...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all 21 council seats in the just-concluded Local Government (LG) election in Adamawa State. According to the results just released by the State Independent Electoral Commission, all the councillorship seats were also won by the ruling PDP in the 226 wards in the North-East state except the Demsa [&hel...
The Adamawa State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public and private schools in the state following the outbreak of measles. The directive, which was given today, is aimed at mitigating the spread of the disease and enabling the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA) to vaccinate the vulnerable age group, repo...
•Ahmadu Fintiri The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed Ahmadu Fintiri of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Adamawa State after dismissing the appeal of Aishatu Binani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for lacking merit. In the judgment prepared by Justice Tunde Awotoye and read by Justice Ebiowei Tobi today, the [&hell...
•Aishatu Dahiru and Hudu Yunusa-Ari An application by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Binani, seeking to stop the prosecution of the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commission, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, has been struck out by an Abuja Federal High Court. The court had previously given an interim...