DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous The Adamawa state governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has warned residents that new stringent measures would soon be introduced in the state to contain the possible spread of the second wave of coronavirus spreading fast across the country. Fintiri said, residents must work hand-in-hand with governmnent to curb the spread of the virus by observing the basic protocols for the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 including washing of hands, social distancing, using of hand sanitizers, avoiding over crowded places and wearing of face masks. This is contained in a press statement issued by the press secretary to the Adamawa state governor, Humwashi Wonosikau, and made available to Newsmen, Wednesday. Umaru Fintiri is concerned over the new wave of Coronavirus Pandemic which health authorities indicated spreads faster than the earlier. The statement said, "Governor Fintiri is putting the State on notice of a possible new restrictions because governm...

Daily Rendezvous The lawmaker representing Gombi Constituency in the Adamawa state house of  assembly, Japhet Kefas, has called for immediate military intervention in Garkida to forestll a possible second attack by the Boko haram insurgents on Garkida. Kefas said local sightngs suggests that some Boko Haram fighters have been spotted in 9 trucks around kalamba, in the outskirts of Garkda, Saturday evening. He explained that the sightings has triggered panic and unrest in the community adding that movements was similar to the kind which the insurgents made in the attack on Garkida on the eve of Christmas. Japhet said, his community would not be care free with the information on the movements of the insurgents, because it was in a similar  manner that the insurgents operated on the eve of Christmas, resulting in the deaths of six persons. Kefas said, " Information has just reached us now that Boko Haram men are mobilizing themselves to Garkida for another...

Daily Rendezvous The Adamawa state Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has on Saturday December, 26th signed the 2021 budget of One hundred and Fourty Billion naira, Thirty Four million, Four Hundred and Nine Thousand, Four and Fourty (N140,340, 409, 440.00) Naira into law. The Budget which is Tagged Budget of Stability, was earlier passed into Law by the State House of Assembly on Thursday December, 24th. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri while performing the ceremony at the Dougerei Government House Saturday, said the budget is designed to strengthen and sustain the government's massive projects in the state and to revamp the economic and infrastructural landscape of the state. Fintiri said, "Democracy without human and infrastructural development amounts to nothing because governmnent must add value to the lives of its people. "For the first time in the history of the state, about 52% of the budget is earmarked for capital expenditure while 48% of the budget is...

Daily Rendezvous Reports just reaching us suggests that some members of the Boko Haram insurgents have once again attacked Adamawa Community of Garkida, shooting randomly as residents scamper into nearby bushes for safety. A local from Garkida told News Rendezvous that the insurgents stormed the community around 5 pm Thursday evening, shooting randomly. The local contact said, "Right now, I cannot say how the village is because we are all hiding in the bush. Details emerging from the Christmas Eve attack suggests that the insurgents stormed the town in the evening around 5 pm driving in twelve trucks and have currently setting so many of the houses on fire, locals told Rendezvous. We reliably gathered that the insurgents burnt down 19 vehicles belonging to Triacta Construction firm, burnt down houses of locals, burnt down a local living faith church, and carted away food stuff. However, details of casualties still remains sketchy as locals continue to narra...

Daily Rendezvous   - Northern Group Says It Regrets Supporting Buhari in 2015 - Says it's Ready For Violent Confrontation with Protesters - Praise Bala Mohammed for Outstanding Display of Leadership The North's most influential youth group and onw of the country's most potent political and social mobilisation group, The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has emphatically said it is for now done with backing any presidential candidate from the north west side of the country, with respect to 2023. The NYLF, is undoubtedly, the most influential northern youth groups, with an impeccable history of influencing electoral outcomes not only for the region but for the country at large. The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NLYF), which is a group fully backed by northern elders Forum with the mobilisation capacity of about forty two (42) affiliate northern youth bodies formed in 1990, has for the first time in its history, turn, its back on providing political or mobilisati...

Daily Rendezvous - Northern Group Says It Regrets Supporting Buhari in 2015 - Says it's Ready For Violent Confrontation with Protesters - The North Will Not Support North West Candidacy The Northern Youth Leaders Forum, has showered praises on the Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, for averting the EndSARS protests that swept the country recently, saying he was one of the few governors who meticulously distributed palliatives in his state by piloting the distribution as the adhoc committee head. The National chairman of the Forum, Comrade Afiyo Eliot, said, Bala Mohammed, distinguishes himself as an examplery leader faithfully getting palliatives to communities in his state, thus, curbing activities of youths who went to various warehouses but could not hidden palliatives. Eliot said, this is the kind of leadership the north needs to tackle the social and security challenges of the region and the forum would gladly support these kind of visionary leaders for higher p...

Daily Rendezvous In an age of globalisation where we have stories of Nigerians getting elected or appointed into political offices in England, America, etc to hear the state chairman of a party  refer to a one time senator in his state as "Non-indigene." It was in this light that the former Senator representing southern Adamawa, Grace Folashade Bent, described the reference to her person as "Non-Indigene" by the Adamawa state chairman of PDP, Tahir Shehu, as a cheap resort to tribalistic Slur and that only a woman can be conveniently and demeaningly called a non- indigene after being married to a man for over four decades. Bent contended that the state chairman should have denounced her position with superior facts instead of condescending to making globally unacceptable comments on ethnicity and gender that degrades commonness of humanity and portrays Adamawa and Nigeria in a disgraceful and demeaning light in the eyes of the world. The sena...

Adamawa senator, Ishaku Abbo, has continued to show signs of a really disturbed person, following his compulsive need to inflict violence on others as a means of showing his superiority. The senator was recently dragged into a notorious submerged into a violent conflict with a nursing mother, where he was shown beating up the woman over some disagreement. Again, the above video shows the senator violently attacking a young man and engaging him in a fist fight, to establish his weird sense of dominance or superiority. The Adamawa Senator representing northern Adamawa, Ishaku Abbo, once again displayed his true nature, as he is seen beating up a young man in the video above. The senator who became notorious over his extra-curricular activities in a sec toy shop beating scenario of a nursing mother has once again appeared in another video beating up a young man, for reasons best known to his sociopathic mind. The senator since coming into limelight as the youngest senator in the Country ...

Daily Rendezvous Another wave of nationwide strike looms for the Buhari led governmnent as beneficiaries of N-POWER are bent on embarking on a nationwide peaceful strike come Tuesday, 8th December, 2020. The group, posting via its twitter handle outlined numerous failed promises and demanded that governmnent fulfil its promise or be faced by a nationwide peaceful protest across the 36 states of the federation. The group said, "5 DAYS COUNTDOWN TO N-POWER PEACEFUL PROTEST ACROSS THE 36 STATES AND FCT "On the 1st of December, 2020, the 36 States and FCT N-Power Representatives Forum have declared a National Peaceful Protest across all the 36 States and FCT through a Facebook Live Chat. @NGRPresident." Outlining their demands they say, "BELOW IS OUR REQUEST: "1.  The 36 States and FCT N-Power Representatives request that they should be brought and shown the template of the purported Transition.  "2.The Transition ( whether absorption into Governme...

Daily Rendezvous Oby Ezekwesili, the Candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) in the 2019 elections has demanded for an independent assessment of Buhari's medical records stating that as concerned citizens, Nigerians should not sit back and watch the country collapse.Ezekwesili made the remarks on her twitter handle, Monday.Oby suggested that the country is a train wreck about to happen under the leadership of president Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerians must rise up to demand for full disclosure on the health status of the person at the helm of affairs in the country.Ezekwesili said, "I think that at this stage and depth of fragility of the Nigeria-State, Privacy has to yield ground to our Right-to-know as citizens, the state of health of @MBuhari . "We really must assess the physical or mental capability of @NGRPresident to carry on the duties of office."Citizens can collectively push for an Independent Panel to help us make the critical medical determi...

News Rendezvous The Chairman, Adamawa first initiative has blamed the sex toy shop incident between Ishaku Abbo and Miss Warmate in Abuja  for the recent defection of the Senator to All progressive Congress to escape the impending punitive measure planned by the senate leadership on Abbo, not Fintiri’s alleged mismanagement of the party. The civil society organisation’s position is contained in a statement titled, ‘Ishaku Abbo’s escape to APC and the forgiveness of his sins by senate leadership’, signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Buni Muchalla, in Abuja, on Sunday  According to the statement, the senator representing Adamawa north defected to the APC to save his neck from the punishment planned by the senate leadership as the Senate leadership refused to act on the report submitted by Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s committee to hoodwink Abbo to defect to the APC, as the allegation of Fintiri's mismanagement of the party is an alibi put forward by the senator to...