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The Periscope reporter The delegation of the management of Modibbo Adama University, MAU Yola, led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Liman Tukur, has paid a thank you visit to the leadership of the National Assembly for their contribution to the conversation of the hitherto university of technology to a conventional university with a view to introducing other sciences, management and humanity disciplines. The press statement Wednesday, issued by the information and protocol officer of the institution revealed that, the VC particularly thanked the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan for the crucial role he played in the actualisation of the conversion…

The Periscope reporter The federal government has eventually confirmed the appointment of Dr. Yusuf M. Abdullahi As the Chief Medical Director, CMD Federal Teaching Hospital FTH Gombe Until his appointment, Abdullahi the Consultant Histopathologist was the acting CMAC of the health facility Recall that the Periscope in her November, 6, 2020 publication articulated that “CMD FTH Gombe could have been decided long before now but the Covid-19 could have caused the delay in the appointment. “There was however the interview for the post, the Periscope investigation can reveal that hope illuminates on the path of Dr. Yusuf Abdullahi the Acting…

The Periscope reporter The new commissioner Adamawa Police Command, CP Aliyu Adamu Alhaji is commended for tackling the first rather embarrassing security challenge in which a district head was whisked away hours after the CP assumed duty on Monday, with assurance of an improved security for peace in Adamawa. Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the release of the district head of Mayo Farang and Sarkin Noman Adamawa, Ardo Mustapha Ardo Ahmadu, few hours after having been abducted around midnight at his palace in Mayo-Farang, Mayo-Belwa local government area of Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria. Not only the Mayo-Farang, but the…

By Nuruddeen Kama No! Bindow is not Judas but a Messiah of a sort. This can be seen and felt by his presence in Adamawa State where thousands of individuals and groups came out enmass to welcome him, paid their allegiance and even went out of their ways to threaten him with legal actions if he failed to seek for re-election in 2023. Though I understand the feelings and insecurity exhibited by those who take politics as do or die affairs, paying faceless writers to malign His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Muhammad Jibrilla Bindow is not the best way to carve…

The Periscope reporter The lawmaker representing Maiha local government at the Adamawa state house of assembly, Hon Isa Yahaya has paid condolence visit to the district head of Jalingo-Maiha, Barr Mahmud Abubakar Sulaiman. The septuagenarian Queen mother Hajj Aishah, popularly known as Hajja Loddo, has transited to great beyond seven days ago, which attracted thousands of mourners. The Hon. Member has on Tuesday joined the list of those who registered their condolence at the Jalingo-Maiha district head palace. Barr Mahmud has thanked the lawmaker for the show of concern. Barr. Mahmud, the chosen, the Emirate Council Selected and the courts…

The Periscope reporter The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has cautioned Ondo governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, against the eviction of herders in the state’s forest reserves. Akeredolu had on Monday, January 18, 2021 ordered herders out of the state’s forest reserves in seven days over security concerns. The governor said the decision was one of numerous major steps to address the root cause of kidnapping and other crimes in Ondo. He said numerous accounts from kidnap victims have indicated that most kidnappers masquerade as herdsmen and use the forest reserves as hideouts for their operations. President Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, condemned the…

The Periscope reporter It appears that morality, fidelity and uprightness are challenged in the house of God with some pastors’ callings being considered as akin to devil deception, fertilising infidelity. News Platform online can report that week after the police in Adamawa State detained two Pentecostal Pastors (male and female) in connection with alleged infidelity leading to bearing of two children, another female evangelist, Kwanye Tumba has dragged the Pastor of House Chapel in Karewa, Yola North Local Government Area of the state to Criminal Area Court II for alleged refusal to marry her. Kwanye told Hon Nuhu Musa Garta…

Adamawa State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has issued stern warning to quacks and impersonators urging them to desist from such acts or face the wrath of the law. A press statement Tuesday, signed by the secretary of the council, Mr Fidelis Jocthan said the council would no more condone such acts. ”Our attention has been drawn to some individuals using unauthorised NUJ identification cards and stickers parading themselves as members of the union. ”The Nigeria Union of Journalists ( NUJ) as a professional body will not condone such kind of impersonation as it is against even the…

The Periscope reporter The aggrieved Almajiri group expressed their dissatisfaction over the clampdown of their members in Almajiri students by the Kaduna task force, at the residence of Sheikh Tahir Bauchi and other slate oriented school. In a press release jointly signed by Yusuf Abdulghaffaar and Ibrahim Garba, the group said Almajiri system of education should not be linked to street begging with the aim of abolishing it Below is the full text of the group’s reaction: Being a text by Concerned Almajiris in reaction to the Unwarranted and Unjustified Arrest of Students and Persons in the Residence of Mawlaana…

The Periscope reporter Borno state Governor, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum Monday, paid a ‘thank you visit’ to the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, following President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the establishment of a federal polytechnic in Monguno, the most populated town in northern Borno, where education is backward. Borno state has since its creation in 1976, remained one of the few states with neither a federal polytechnic nor a federal college of education in spite of the agitations to have the institutions established in the state Ramat Polytechnic and colleges of education in Maiduguri and Biu are owned and…