May 27, 2021
Abdullahi Sa ad, member representing Ningi/Warji Federal Constituency in the House of Reps presenting the memo to the Chairman, North-East Zonal Committee on constitution review, Sen Abubakar Kyari
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Burra Community in Ningi Local Government of Bauchi State has presented a memorandum to Nigeria’s Senate requesting the creation of Burra Local Government Area.
Presenting the memo on behalf of the community during the North-East Zonal Public Hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution in Bauchi, member representing Ningi/Warji Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Abdullahi Sa’ad Abdulkadir said that the community had consistently been presenting the request to various governments since 1981.
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Twenty residents of Bauchi State have lost their lives to Cholera while 302 others are receiving treatment in hospitals, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aliyu Maigoro, said at a press briefing on Tuesday.
Maigoro explained that nine local councils in the state recorded 322 cases in one month, putting the fatality rate at 6.2 per cent.
He said: “The state’s Ministry of Health was notified of a sporadic case of gastroenteritis in Magami Community, Burra Ward of Ningi Local Council by the Area Health Officer in Burra District on the May 11, 2021.
“This followed an increase in the number of cases above normal in the community. The index case was a 37-year-old housewife who presented at Burra General Hospital on April 24, 2021. She complained of abdominal pains, diarrhoea and vomiting. She and others were successfully managed and discharged.”
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Published 25 May 2021
Cholera outbreak in Bauchi State has killed no fewer than 20 people in the state, the state government has disclosed.
The Commissioner of Health in the state, Dr. Aliyu Maigoro, disclosed this at a press conference held at the Ministry’s Headquarters in Bauchi on Tuesday.
He said that nine local government areas in the state recorded a total of 322 cases within one month adding that the case fatality rate is 6.2 per cent.
He said, “The state Ministry of Health was notified of a sporadic case of gastroenteritis in Magami Community, Burra Ward of Ningi Local Government Area by the Area Health Officer in Burra District on the 11th May 2021. This followed an increase in the number of cases above normal from the community.
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The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested three of five suspects linked to the kidnap of two businessmen in Gombi Local Government Area of the state.
The command said on Monday that it effected the arrest during the weekend, on Saturday, February 27, and the suspects have been found to be the ones who kidnapped Ali Ahmadu and Alhaji Guruza of Antasa and Balhona villages in Gombi LGA sometime in November last year.
“The suspects were apprehended at their various hideouts in Gombi town following credible information and intense search by the Police and Pulaku Vigilantes team of Gombi Division,” the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the state, DSP Suleiman Nguroje said in a statement.
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