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Police arrest fake EFCC operatives for robbery, kidnapping in Nasarawa
The Nasarawa State Police command said it has arrested three fake officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state. This was contained in a ...
1st May 2024
World Bank partners Nasarawa to tackle gender-based violence, others
The World Bank in collaboration with the Nasarawa State government on Tuesday held a one-day sensitisation workshop for stakeholders on the dangers of gender-based violence and female genital mutilati...
24th April 2024
Insecurity: Nasarawa bans Fulani vigilante, others
Following the emergency security meeting convened by Governor Abdullahi Sule on Monday, the Nasarawa State Government has proscribed all ethnic vigilante groups operating in the state. The state gover...
16th April 2024
Corps member offers free genotype testing in Nasarawa community
A National Youths Service Corps member serving in the Nasarawa State Ministry of Special Duties on Humanitarian, Social Services and NGOs, Patrick Asheazi, has organised a free genotype testing for no...
29th March 2024
Suspected herdsmen kill six farmers in Nasarawa community
No fewer than six persons have been reportedly killed by suspected herdsmen in the Kadarko community of Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Our correspondent gathered that two residents wer...
24th March 2024
Striking NAAT members protest in Nasarawa
The Federal University of Lafia branch of the National Association of Academic Technologists has joined the nationwide three-day warning strike over the non-payment of five-and-a-half months withheld ...
20th March 2024
Nasarawa says nine doctors resigned, nurses issue strike notice
The Nasarawa State Government has debunked media reports on ongoing exodus of medical doctors from the state. Speaking on the matter during a press briefing in Lafia, the state capital on Friday, the ...
15th March 2024
Appoint more women into your cabinet, Nasarawa women group urges Tinubu
Women groups under the People’s Democratic Party in Nasarawa State led by the wife of the 2023 governorship candidate of the party, Miranda Asheazi Ombugadu, have appealed to President Bola Tinu...
8th March 2024
Nasarawa to clamp down on unregistered NGOs
The Nasarawa State Government has said plans are underway to shut down unregistered and unknown Non-governmental organisations across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state. The state government f...
26th February 2024
Police arrest 109 illegal miners in Nasarawa
The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 109 suspected illegal miners operating in the Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of the state. Speaking while parading the suspects at th...
20th February 2024
Nasarawa to return 430,787 out-of-school children to classes
Worried by the increasing rate of out-of-school children in Nasarawa State, the state government has partnered with the World Bank to assist parents and guardians with financial challenges to send the...
14th February 2024
Nasarawa students seek end to kidnapping, banditry in schools
Students of Nasarawa State origin in tertiary institutions have decried the continuous kidnapping of their colleagues for ransom, and called on the federal and state governments to expedite action tow...
11th February 2024
50 bag first-class as Nasarawa varsity graduates 6,499
No fewer than 50 students of the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, will on Saturday receive their certificates as first-class graduates in several disciplines during the institution’s...
8th February 2024
Bandits kill three soldiers, two others in Nasarawa
There was palpable fear in the Katapka community of Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State following the alleged killing of three soldiers and two vigilante group members by bandits who invaded ...
7th February 2024
Nasarawa residents lament soaring cooking gas prices, govt bans charcoal use
Residents of Nasarawa State have decried the increasing cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in the state and appealed for the urgent intervention of the government on the matter. Some of the residents who...
7th February 2024
Police deny role in Miyetti Allah's security outfit formation
The Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State, Shehu Umar Nadada, has denied the command’s involvement in the formation of a 1,144-man Fulani Nomad Vigilante team which was recently established in ...
6th February 2024
Nasarawa rerun: APC wins Keana state assembly seat
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adamu Mohammed Omadefu as the winner of the Keana Constituency seat for Saturday’...
4th February 2024
Order Miyetti Allah leader’s release, Fulani youths beg Tinubu
A socio-cultural group under the aegis of the Fulani Youth Association of Nigeria has decried the continuous detention of the President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, by the...
4th February 2024
Court slashes Nasarawa protesters’ bail after 13 days in jail
A Nasarawa State Magistrates’ Court in Lafia on Wednesday slashed the bail conditions of the 38 persons arrested in connection with a protest against the Supreme Court judgment, which affirmed the e...
1st February 2024
Court slashes Nasarawa protesters’ bail after 13 days in jail
A Nasarawa State Magistrates’ Court in Lafia on Wednesday slashed the bail conditions of the 38 persons arrested in connection with a protest against the Supreme Court judgment, which affirmed the e...
1st February 2024
Over 400,000 cured of schistosomiasis in Nasarawa — Commissioner
No fewer than 444,785 children and adults resident in Nasarawa State have received complete treatment for schistosomiasis disease in the year 2023. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Gaza Gwamna di...
31st January 2024
Nasarawa court grants 38 anti-Sule protesters N2m bail
Nasarawa State Magistrates’ Court in Lafia on Thursday granted bail to the 38 persons arrested in connection with last Friday’s protest against the Supreme Court judgment, which affirmed the elect...
26th January 2024
Nasarawa police arrest 38 for protesting Supreme Court judgment
No fewer than 30 aged women including widows and eight men of Nasarawa State origin were on Friday arrested by the police for allegedly protesting the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment which affir...
19th January 2024
Army arrests fake soldier in Nasarawa
The Nasarawa State Police command said the officers of the Nigerian Army have arrested a fake soldier in the Awe Local Government Area of the state and handed him over to the command for interrogation...
11th January 2024
Police nab three over Nasarawa hospital baby theft
The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has commenced an investigation into the stealing of a Newborn baby who was delivered through Caesarean Section by a 20-year-old woman at the Dalhatu Araf Spec...
11th January 2024
Newborn stolen in Nasarawa hospital, police arrest three
The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has commenced an investigation into the stealing of a newborn baby who was delivered through a Caesarean section by a 20-year-old woman at the Dalhatu Araf Sp...
10th January 2024
Include cultural studies in school curriculum, varsity teacher urges FG
Following the increasing spate of insecurity in the country, a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Entrepreneurship Studies at the Nasarawa State University, Vincent Paul, has advocated the integrati...
4th January 2024
Kidnappers of Nasarawa LG boss demand N50m ransom
The kidnappers of the Chairman of Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Safiyanu Andaha and his friend, Adamu Tanko, have demanded N50m ransom for their release. A family source who spoke o...
2nd January 2024
Insecurity: Shettima urges peaceful coexistence among Northerners
Following the increasing spate of insecurity in the Northern part of Nigeria, Vice President Kashim Shettima has appealed to residents in the area to always live in peace and harmony in order to ens...
28th December 2023
Nasarawa women continue protest over gov poll dispute
Some women in Nasarawa State again staged a protest in Lafia, the state capital, on Tuesday over what they described as the alleged injustice done to the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidat...
27th December 2023
Nasarawa varsity gets approval to establish robotics, AI laboratory
The Phoenix University, Agwada, in the Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, said it has established a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence laboratory for its intending students in line with...
21st December 2023