Nasarawa United have been hit with an exile from their Lafiya Township Stadium home ground and impised a fine of N6 million for repeated offences of inadequate security and fan restiveness. The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) imposed the sanctions in a swift reaction to the confirmed reports of assault on a Plateau United player, Vincent Temitope and attempt to …

A 16-year-old girl, Maryam Samuel, has allegedly committed suicide at Kaltungo community in Kaltungo Local Government Area of Gombe State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Buhari Abdullahi, who confirmed the incident on Saturday in Gombe, said the girl committed suicide by hanging on a tree. Abdullahi said the incident occurred on 14 March barely 24 hours after the …

The Director General of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Ifeanyi Okeke has thanked Governor Muhammadu Yahaya for allocating a piece of land for the construction of the SON’s North-East Regional office and a training school in Gombe State. Okeke, who was represented by the North-East Regional Director of SON, James Yakzum, spoke during a courtesy call on the …

Prices of grains have dropped in Gombe markets amid low demand for the produce. Checks at Gombe Central and Tudun Hatsi grain markets showed that prices of the commodities dropped by about 15 per cent in the past two weeks. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who visited the markets on Wednesday, reports that traders are facing a …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed seized counterfeit products worth N10 billion in the Northeast zone. The commodities were publicly burnt by the agency in Gombe State on Wednesday. During the exercise, NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who was represented by the North East Zonal Director, Mr Kenneth Azikwe, noted that the exercise …

The Gombe State Government has expressed solidarity with the government and people of Borno State following the recent flood disaster that affected the state capital and surrounding areas. The Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Yahaya, represented by a high-powered delegation led by the Deputy Governor, Manassah Jatau, presented a donation of N100 million to assist the flood victims. This was …

The Gombe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has said that 2,517 houses and shops were either completely or partially destroyed by flood which ravaged 33 communities in the state. Mr Ibrahim Nalado, the Deputy Director, Relief and Rehabilitation of the agency, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Gombe. Nalado said that …

The Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Yahaya, has stated that the state has a standing committee on the new national minimum wage. Recall that last July, the governor questioned the viability of his state paying the newly approved N70,000. Yahaya made this disclosure on Saturday in a press statement signed by the Director-General of Press Affairs, Gombe Government House, Ismaila …

The Gombe State Government on Friday announced that monthly sanitation scheduled every last Saturday of the month will not be held tomorrow over the local government election. Disclosing this in Gombe, the state capital, Commissioner for Water, Environment and Forest Resources, Mohammed Fawu, called on residents to keep their surroundings clean, stressing that they shouldn’t wait for the general allotted …

The Gombe State Government has lauded the intervention of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in tackling the out-of-school children menace in the state. The Commissioner for Education, Dr Aishatu Maigari stated this in an interview with journalists at a two-day workshop organised by State Universal Basic Education with support from UNICEF Bauchi Field Office on policy dialogue with relevant …