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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 600 new cases on Friday of the Coronavirus Disease in the country, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 155,076.

Governors in the northeast have resolved to set up a joint task force to ensure the protection of schools in the region in the wake of a spate of mass school abductions. They reached the resolution at the fourth meeting of the group in Bauchi, where they also signalled support for community policing to address […]

North East Governors Forum has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to fast-track work on the Mambila Hydroelectric Power Project.

Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, will join the All Progressives Congress soon, the Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has stated. Zulum spoke when he led the North-East Governors to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the reconstruction and upgrading of the Bauchi State Government House on Thursday. He, however, did not give further details on his statement about Mohammed joining the APC. Zulum who is the Chairman of the North-East Governors’ Forum sa...

  The North-East governors’ forum says there is a need for the region to adopt community policing and sub-r egional security outfits to tackle the current security challenges in the region. This was contained in a 10-point communique issued shortly after their meeting held on Wednesday in Bauchi. The communique was read by the Deputy Chairman, North-East Governors’ Forum, Adamawa State Umaru Fintiri. “The Forum appreciates the reinforced efforts in the fight against insurgency and other ...

Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi The North-East Governors’ Forum has said the Federal Government is not showing commitment to ending the insurgency ravagin...

Yahaya was in Bauchi on Wednesday for the 4th North-East Governors’ Forum meeting which held in Bauchi State.

Punch Newspapers Sections Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi Several journalists in the convoy of the Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, were, on Thursday, involved in a fatal crash while on their way to Gombe from Bauchi. The driver of the crashed vehicle reportedly died. The Gombe State Governor was in Bauchi on Wednesday for the 4th North-East Governors’ Forum Meeting. The Governor then stayed till Thursday to be a part of the groundbreaking ceremony for the foundation laying for the renovation and ...

Share Immediate past Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defence in the eighth National Assembly, Honourable Rimamnde Shawulu, speaks on the calls to license citizens to bear arms, autonomy and other issues. KEHINDE AKINTOLA brings some excerpts:   DO you support calls by pressure groups that the 1999 Constitution be suspended to pave way for a new one? I do agree and my argument is simple. My argument is a response to people, who say that you cannot discuss the dissolution or othe...

Punch Newspapers Sections Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna The pan-Northern socio-political organization, Arewa Consultative Forum, has asked the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to declare parts of the country ravaged by bandits and insurgents “a no flying zone” as done in Zamfara State. The President, following the kidnap and subsequent release of the 279 students of the Government Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata-Mafara Local Government Area by bandits, declared t...