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Tipper Owner Drags Nigerian Army Captain to Court By Billy Graham Abel Yola A tipper Owner, Oluwatosin Adebanjo, has through his business manager, Ismail Muhammed, instituted a case of criminal intimidation contrary to Section 397 of the panel code, against one army officer, Captain Ezemegbu of the 23 Armoured Brigade, praying the court to compel the officer to pay the requisite amount for the recovery the complianants Tipper lorry seized by the Camerounian authority six months ago. According to the legal documents made available to Daily Sun by the vehicle owner, Oluwatosin Adebanjo, which includes a complaint letter, put forward by one Reliance Law Chambers and addressed to the Brigade Commander, 23 Armoured Yola, and a case lodged at the Magistrate Court of Adamawa state, dated,  3rd and 13th of August, 2018 respectively, the military officer in question, is said to have hired the lorry tipper, through his business agent, one Isa Muhammed, for the transportation of some Madr...

BREAKING: Real Madrid SACK Lopetegui & appoint Solari as provisional manager Real Madrid officially confirmed that Julen Lopetegui is no longer the coach of Real Madrid and his replacement will be Santiago Hernan Solari. Real have failed to win in the league since beating Espanyol on September 22, losing to Sevilla, Alaves, Levante and drawing with Atletico Madrid, before Sunday's 5-1 thrashing by Barcelona at the Nou Camp. Lopetegui, 52, has now lost two jobs in the space of less than five months. He was fired by the Spanish Football Federation as coach of the national team the day before the World Cup started in June, due to his having planned his move to Real without informing the Spanish Football Federation. Announcing his sacking on Monday night, Real Madrid said: "This decision aims to change the dynamics of the first team, when all the objectives of this season are still achievable. "The Board of Directors understands that there is great disproportion be...

FG Enlists 45000 Beneficiaries for Trader Moni in Adamawa By Billy Graham Abel Yola The federal government has registered over forty five thousand beneficiaries into the Trader Moni Enterprise and Empowerment Programme in Yola, Adamawa state. An official of the enterprise made this disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen in, Friday, in Yola, Adamawa state. Ignatius Gabriel, the Adamawa state enumerators coordinator, said, he expects the number to increase far more than the figure on ground after overcoming the take off challenge of skepticism over the authenticity of the program. At the official launching of the enterprise at the Jimeta Ultra Modern Market in Yola, the program coordinator explained that the program had suffered from traditional skepticism related to failed loan disbursement schemes in the past. The Adamanwa state coordinator of the Trader Moni program, Ignatius Gabriel Aigba, said, We have been receiving good cooperation in Adamawa even though the built ...

Let's Get  Nigeria Working Again-Atiku If Nigerians elect me as their President, I will NOT take 6 months before naming my cabinet. My cabinet will be ready before May 29, 2019, if by the grace of God, you elect me. Our country needs a decisive leader to Get Nigeria Working Again.

Gov Yari Plans Court Action Against APC Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State is planning a court action against the All Progressives Congress (APC) for annulling last Wednesday’s botched  primary election.

Gov Yari Plans Court Action Against APC Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State is planning a court action against the All Progressives Congress (APC) for annulling last Wednesday’s botched  primary election.

We Will Do This Together-Atiku Our task is clear, and it is to ensure every Nigerian can earn a decent living, get a job, create wealth and live peacefully anywhere they reside in this blessed country. We will do this together. #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain #NigeriaWillWork

2019: Nigerians Are Tired of APC and PDP-Dr.  Garkida By Billy Graham Abel Yola The governorship candidate of the All Grassroot Alliance, AGA, Musa Garkida David, said his advantage going into the 2019 governorship elections in Adamawa state is that Nigerians have become smarter and are weary of the failed leadership of APC and PDP in the country. He stressed that Nigerians would not not fall for the gimmicks of money politics and that Nigerians would stand their ground to choose people with the idea and solutions to address the country's problems. Garkida said, the same people that were in PDP moved to APC and are now back again, determined to enslave Nigerians. Garkida made the remarks over the weekend, during the governorship primary of the All Grassroot Alliance, AGA, in Yola, Adamawa state. Garkida who unanimously emerged the AGA's flag bearer said, leadership has been the bane of the progress of Adamawa state and his emergence as the governor of Adama...

Adamawa Guber: Ribadu Rejects Primary Results As Fictitious Fabrication By Billy Graham Abel Yola The Adamawa born former EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu has called on the NWC of APC to reject in totality any result presented supposedly emanating from a non-existent governorship primary held in the state. Ribadu said there were no primaries held in the state and that any result presented would be fictitious fabrication meant to ridicule the entire electoral democracy as a system and to scuttle the credibility of the entire electoral process. Nuhu Ribadu made the remarks Saturday, during a press briefing in Yola, Adamawa state. Nuhu Ribadu cautioned the members of the electoral committee against denting their good image saying any attempt at concocting results for an elections that was not held would cast a negative headline on their image and reputation. Ribadu said, "You are witnesses to political happenings in Adamawa State in the past week, specifically in relations to the condu...

Adamawa Guber: APC May Not Have Governorship, Other Candidates By Billy Graham Abel Yola Adamawa APC may not field a gubernatorial, senatorial or house of representatives candidates in the 2019 elections, if the ongoing governorship primary impasse remains and the conundrum clouding the party primaries prevails beyond the Sunday deadline for submission of candidates by parties. As at Saturday morning, there are no empirical evidence that elections have indeed been held in any part of the state as prescribed by the chairman of the Primaries committee, Maj Gen. Tijanni Ahmed. Tijanni Ahmed had prescribed that the primaries in Adamawa would only be held when all voters are certified to be members of the party based on the official register to be distributed by the committee to all wards in the state. The committee maintains that all voters in the primaries must present a party membership card which must tally with their permanent voters card and consistent with their details in the p...

Update:  Adamawa Guber: Anarchy Clouds Primary By Billy Graham Abel Yola The cloud of uncertainty continues to hover over Adamawa governorship primary as the arrival of the NWC appointed Tijanni Ahmed led governorship primary committee late Thursday has only plunged the controversial APC primary in the state into yet another crisis as the officials to conduct the primary are no where to be found in most of the venues visited. The governorship primary in the state could be described as nothing short of total anarchy as there were no electoral officials in any ward to conduct the primary. As at the 7 pm, Friday, there was no presence of officials for the primary elections at Mbamoi ward in Yola town, after the officials were said to have been deployed to designated wards since noon, the Sun observes. In most of the polling units within Yola town, there was only a crowd of anxious voters who painstakingly organized themselves into queues behind there preferred delegates, only to...

PDP Primaries Crisis: Committee Faults Winner Claims By Aspirant By Billy Graham Abel Yola Members of the PDP committee which supervises the Adamawa senatorial contest have faulted one of the aspirants in the southern senatorial zone, Binos Dauda Yero, over his claims of victory in the Tuesday primary, held in Numan. The committee members led by Sule Ahmed Gisse made the remarks Thursday, while fielding questions from Newsmen, in Yola, Adamawa state. Sule said, "No aspirant has the right to declare himself winner before the committee announces the result. "Voting had been concluded in the contest at Numan, counting was also concluded and before the result would be officially announced by the committee, some thugs came in and disrupted the entire process. "The chairperson of the committee, Joy Imodi, had to leave for the national convention of our party and the result would be announced immediately it is ready." He notes that the result of all the three senato...

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Bindow to Seek Alternative Platform Over APC controversy By Billy Graham Abel Yola A group, Adamawa Youth for Good Governance has urged governor Bindow to Seek an alternative platform to run for governor if APC continues its reign of impunity in the state. Mohammed Ahmed Marafa speaking on behalf of the group said, there are unseen forces who have decided to hijack the party affairs and are scheming to circumvent the party process. Marafa said, "We were supposed to hold our primaries since Sunday but some people have hijacked the party and locked down the secretariat. "They claimed the party primary has been rescheduled for Thursday, we are not sure if it would hold because right now nothing has been done to show that the primary would hold. "Everyone in the party has agreed for the indirect primaries and just because of the interest of a few, national body decided to reverse everything to serve the interest of one person. "All we want is a free and fair pr...

2019: Southern Adamawa Will Have A Voice-Rev. Binos By Billy Graham Abel, Yola The winner of the southern Adamawa senatorial primaries of the PDP, Binos Dauda Yero has promised the people of the zone that he would be their voice at the national assembly saying the situation where mayhem and wanton destruction of lives and property have plagued the zone without the representatives speaking out has come to an end. Binos made the remarks in his victory speech after emerging as the flag bearer of the southern zone of the PDP, Wednesday. Speakingon his victory Binos Dauda Yero said, "By the grace of God and the will of the delegates, I have emerged the elected candidate of PDP for Adamawa South Senatorial District for the 2019 general elections, today, the people have spoken with their ballot papers and their voices have been heard resoundingly throughout the land. "Indeed, it was not an easy contest and I am extremely humbled that our delegates have found me worthy to fly the ...

Adamawa Guber: Fresh Trouble for Bindow as NWC Postponed Primaries By Billy Graham Abel Yola The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rescheduled governorship primaries in Adamawa state to the 4th October, 2018 and reversed the mode of primaries from indirect to direct. This is contained in a press statement signed by the acting national publicity Secretary of the party, Yekini Nabena, and made available to Newsmen, Monday. The statement said Enugu and Adamawa will hold a Direct governorship Primaries on Thursday, October 4, 2018. Confirming the change, the former senator representing Adamawa central, Abubakar Girei, said, the governor has made every attempt to scuttle the process and he choose a venue where he could implement a sinister agenda. "We have reliably gathered that thugs have been mobilised to invade the venue, so our team and that of the other aspirant, Nuhu Ribadu had to mount pressure on the national body to change the ar...

Adamawa Guber: Fintiri Emerges PDP Flag Bearer By Billy Graham Abel Yola While the impasse prevails in the APC gubernatorial primary in Adamawa state, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, has concluded it's gubernatorial primary with former Acting governor and one time speaker of the Adamawa state House of Assembly, Umaru Ahmadu Fintiri, polling 1656 to emerge the PDP's gubernatorial flag bearer in the state. Fintiri floors four other challengers to emerge winner in the contest with his closest rival, Jameel Zubairu  polling 465, followed by former governor, Bala James Ngilari with 76 votes, Aliyu Ahmed, 8 votes and Umar Ardo with 1 vote. Fintiri rose to prominence when he impeached the then Adamawa state governor, Murtala Nyako, and succeeded him as the acting governor and cleared the backlog of salary arrears owed civil servants in the state.