Bauchi gov lambasts southern colleagues, Ortom, says herders’ AK-47 for defence
Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi
The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said Fulani herders carry AK-47 for self-defence because they are being attacked by cattle rustlers.
He slammed his counterpart in Benue State, Samuel Ortom, over his handling of the farmer-herder clashes which had led to loss of lives.
Mohammed spoke at the closing ceremony of the 2021 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council on Thursday at the Command Guest House.
The governor in his keynote address on the theme, ‘The Role of the Media in Promoting Peace in Nigeria,’ commended journalists in the state for their accurate and balanced reporting and for promoting peace in Nigeria.
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State governments, except Lagos and Oyo, are not making independent plans to procure COVID-19 vaccine, officials told
The PUNCH on Sunday.
Officials of states including Plateau, Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Cross River and Bauchi, in separate interviews with
The PUNCH, said they had not made any plan to buy the vaccine, rather they would depend on allocations from the Federal Government.
But Lagos and Oyo states, had two weeks ago, told our correspondents that they were making independent plans to buy doses of COVID-19 vaccine, in addition to the allocations expected from the Federal Government.
As most states failed to make their own plans for the vaccine, the Federal Government on Sunday blamed politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria for the delay in the arrival of the vaccine in country.
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A former member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abdulmumuni Ningi, who was kidnapped recently has been released from captivity.
The PUNCH had reported the Bauchi State Police Command confirmed that the former Lawmaker who represented Ningi Constituency in the last Assembly in the State, was kidnapped by some gunmen last Thursday night.
He was kidnapped on his way home along the Bauchi State Agricultural Development Programme quarters around Isa Yuguda guest house.
The former lawmaker was released by the kidnappers after spending seven days in their hands at an unknown destination.
A family member, who spoke to journalists in a telephone interview, confirmed that Ningi had been released and had returned home to his family.
Housewife collapses as judge declines dissolving six-year marriage
Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi
A housewife in Bauchi, Aishatu Suleiman, on Tuesday collapsed in court after a judge refused to dissolve her six-year-old marriage to her husband.
She had filed the request before an Upper Shariah Court 4, Bauchi, asking that the court should dissolve her marriage with her husband, Umar MaiAuduga, over alleged maltreatment and humiliation.
During the court’s sitting on Tuesday, the presiding judge, Malam Bello Sambo refused the petitioner’s request.
He said the court in the previous sittings directed the guardians of the couple to discuss and come up with a resolution on whether the marriage should be terminated or not while considering Islamic principles of amicable reconciliation.
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Some gunmen on Thursday night kidnapped a former member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abdulmumuni Ningi.
The Bauchi State Police Command confirmed the kidnap of the former lawmaker, who represented Ningi Constituency in the last Assembly.
The Bauchi Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, told our correspondent on the telephone Friday morning that the victim was kidnapped within Bauchi metropolis.
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“According to the information we received, he was trailed by his abductors who were four in number in a gold coloured car. They trailed him to his house around the BSADP (Bauchi State Agricultural Development Programme) area at Isa Yuguda Guest House within the metropolis.”