The health insurance scheme in Nasarawa State has recently enrolled 130 Almajiri teenagers. This initiative is part of the government’s efforts to improve the healthcare coverage for these young residents. The State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Aishatu Ibrahim, highlighted this gesture and also mentioned that 80 Almajiri children have been enrolled in public schools to ensure they …

A lecturer of the Faculty of Administration at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Dr Comfort Adokwe, who was recently abducted, has regained freedom after her family and well-wishers paid N5 million ransom to her abductors. Heavily armed men had on Sunday night invaded her residence at Angwan Jaba in the Keffi Local Government Area of the state and whisked her …

Minister for Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Oladele Alake has restated the overarching policy of value addition by any company with requisite licence and permits to mine minerals, just as he made a clarion call to potential investors that the era of exporting raw materials is over. At the foundation stone laying ceremony of a 16,000 tonnes Lithium battery processing factory …

No fewer than 38 residents of Takalafia and Gwanja communities in the Karu Local Government Area (LGA) of Nasarawa State have been reportedly killed by herdsmen who stormed the area recently. The Pastor-in-charge of the Evangelical Church Winning All in the area, Rev. Daniel Danbeki, and 37 others were gruesomely murdered by the assailants during the attack which lasted from …

A 25-year-old electrician, Akonede Adekunle was on Tuesday arraigned in an Upper Area Court, New Karu, Nasarawa State for allegedly beating up his girlfriend for cheating on him. The defendant, who resides at One Man Village, Nasarawa State was arraigned on a four-count charge of criminal force, assault, causing grievous hurt and intimidation. Adekunle, however, denied committing the offence levelled …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited intends to begin drilling for oil in Nasarawa State in March 2023 as part of its ongoing efforts to explore for oil in the nation’s interior basins. The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mallam Mele Kyari disclosed this when the Governor of the State, Engr. Abdullahi Sule led a delegation of …

The Gidan Angalu community in Toto Local Government Area, Nasarawa State was thrown into shock penultimate Tuesday with the ‘resurrection’ of a traditional doctor at the point of burial two days after he was certified dead. Fifty-nine-year-old Godwin Ugeelu Amadu was confirmed dead by doctors at a private hospital at about 6 am on 5 September, following which he was …