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Nasarawa State Leads in National Measles Rubella Immunization Campaign With 103% Coverage Over 1.36 million children have received the Measles Rubella (MR) vaccine in Nasarawa State, as part of Nigeria’s nationwide immunization campaign to protect children from the highly contagious disease. This milestone was disclosed by Mr. Abubakar Halilu Awe,…
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has sounded the alarm over a disturbing security development in the North-Central region of Nigeria—the emergence of a Boko Haram splinter group known as Wulowulo. Governor Sule made this known on Monday during an expanded security council meeting held at the Government House in Lafia,…
The Federal Government has directed the immediate commencement of the long-awaited reconstruction of the 137-kilometre Keffi–Nasarawa–Toto–Abaji road, in a renewed push to boost regional connectivity and infrastructure under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. The directive was announced by the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, during an inspection tour…
A Nasarawa State High Court in Lafia has sentenced 27-year-old Ahmadu Yaro to 21 years in prison with hard labour for the rape of a three-month-old baby, an act described by the presiding judge as “barbaric and demonic.” Delivering the long-awaited judgment, Justice Aisha Bashir-Aliyu condemned the assault as “a…
A 300-level student of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), Mustapha Osama, has been k!lled by gunmen in a foiled robbery attempt in Akwanga Local Government Area of the State. The incident occurred along the Gudi-Akwanga road around 8pm on Friday, July 19, 2024. It was gathered that the deceased…
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu; former Governor of Nasarawa State, Tanko Al-Makura, and the incumbent governor of the state, Abdul Sule, are in court to observe Friday’s Supreme Court proceedings. The Nasarawa state governorship is slated for judgment today. The governorship appeal is one…
At Gwandara Primary School at Karu in Nasarawa State, many voters also gathered, however, there is no INEC list displayed at the polling unit.
He disclosed that the NPC was well prepared to conduct the forthcoming census exercise in the state.
