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The Periscope Reporter Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State has directed both Public and Private Schools across the state to end the first term and vacate effective Friday 18th December, 2020. In a press release Friday, issued by the Press Secretary to the Governor Mr. Humwashi Wonosikou, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri directed that Schools that were yet to round off academic activities for the first term 20/21 academic session should do so on Friday 18th December, 2020 and close for the Christmas and New year. “This is to allow School Children go home early for the Yuletide and New…

The Periscope Reporter Gunmen have reportedly attacked the convoy of HRH Sanusi Muhammad Asha, Emir of Kaura Namoda Zamfara state, along Zaria-Funtua road, killing three policemen and five others on the entourage. According to Channels TV, the attack happened on Thursday night while the monarch was on his way back from Abuja. The Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, Usman Nagogo also confirmed the incident. He, however, declined to comment further on the attack. It was gathered that the armed men mercilessly attacked a Hilux in the Emir’s convoy and killed the driver, three policemen, a senior guard to the king,…

The Periscope Reporter Adamawa State government has announced the immediate closure of all public and private schools. A statement Friday, by the permanent secretary ministry of education and human capital development, Aisha Abubakar said the closure was with immediate effect. The schools’ closure may not be unconnected with the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the globe. “The ministry of education and human capital development wishes to direct and announce the immediate closure of private and public schools in the state today being 17th December, 2020. ”Resumption date will be announced on a later date. All school administrators/authorities…

The Periscope Reporter The Periscope Global Publishers Ltd, publishers of the Periscope mainstream paper and online media heartily congratulates Professor Umar Pate on his new appointment as Vice Chancellor, Federal University Kashere Gombe, Gombe State, northeast Nigeria. A senior communications scholar and current Dean Post graduate School Bayero University Kano , Professor Umaru Pate holds the position of President, Association of Communications Scholars and Practitioners of Nigeria. The university Don was the pioneer Dean faculty of communications Bayero University Kano. He also served as Head of Mass Communication Department among other positions when he was at the University of Maiduguri,…

BY DAN AGBESE Chief Audu Ogbeh, immediate past minister of agriculture and chairman, ACF, was recently quoted as saying that politics is the only industry in Northern Nigeria. His statement intrigues me for two reasons. One, I have often wondered why the north, which has ruled the country longer than all the other regions put together is in dire straits. If it is only the industry, then it must be an industry that has failed disastrously. Two, his statement reminds me of the famous statement made long ago by the late Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule. He said: “The northerners are…

The Periscope Reporter Operatives of the Adamawa Police Command’s Intelligent Bureau (SIB) have arrested four cyber Crime related offences suspects involved in armed robbery, receiving and disposing stolen properties. The press release Thursday, issued by the Police Public Relations Officer DSP Sulaiman Yahaya Nguroje revealed that the Command has yesterday, “received report from one Engineer Babangida Yusuf, a resident of Karewa extension, Yola North LGA that he was attacked in his house, placed at gunpoint and was robbed of his belongings. “The four suspects, Ibrahim Musa 24, Abdulrazaq Abubakar 25, Ishaya Musa 32 and Wakil Muhammad 30 are all residents…

The Periscope Reporter The Coalition of Northern Group CNG has on Thursday occupied Katsina with #BringBackOurBoys peacefully, chanting “end insecurity now,” challenging the federal government to fully and promptly engage in rescuing the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina state. The protesters lamented that the security chiefs have overstayed their welcome. They have also overstretched their initiatives, therefore the only option for them would be to give way to other chiefs with promising initiative that would bring an end to the insurgency that has consumed the entire northern Nigeria under President Buhari’s watch whom the protesters lamented…

The Periscope Reporter * If I may ask, why is it that it is only the aliens who have no any link with Jalingo-Maiha district that are working the script against the established monarchy in Jalingo-Maiha? – The sage Close to three months after the determination of the Appeal Court, which affirmed the High Court judgement that declared the heir; Mahmud Abubakar Sulaiman as the legitimate district head of Jalingo-Maiha, Adamawa state governor is yet to approve the appointment in tune with the court order. The subjects as electorates in Jalingo-Maiha district suspected a foul play, instigated by political brouhaha,…

The Periscope Reporter The managementof Modibbo Adama University of Technology, MAUTECH Yola, Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, played host to the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA, she has also commissioned a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Forensic Laboratory at the Chevron Biotechnology Centre in Mautech Yola; the first of its kind in the lake Chad basin area. The information and protocol officer, MAUTECH Yola, Mr. Aminu Julde Gurumpawo reported that the UNFPA Country Representative, Ms Ulla Elisabeth Mueller Tuesday, while commissioning the fully equipped, state-of-the-art DNA laboratory decried the alarming number of cases relating to gender based violence, where she lamented that particularly…

The Periscope Reporter * So, who can advise otherwise and will still want the good citizens to believe that he is not on mission to conspire against Fintiri come 2023, as a theology to evangelise? – Critical thinker The people of Jalingo-Maiha district wondered why should people that have no any connection with the district or the people interfere in the affairs of the monarchy if not to instigate acrimony for anarchy, while they sit at the distance in their various comfort zone districts, like a spider in the proverbial African folktale, happily clapping and laughing over the destructions to…