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RESIDENT doctors, Saturday, extended their early deadline given the federal government to meet their demands by three weeks. Addressing the media in Abuja, the NARD said the decision was a fallout of their extraordinary meeting held in respect to government’s response to their demands. But the doctors warned that nothing will prevent them from embarking on industrial action if the government fails to address their demands before the end of the new ultimatum, expected to end on August 17. President of NARD, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, who spoke on behalf of executive members lamented that government had not demonstrated much willingness…

The organized labour in Adamawa State has today rejected what it called ”the unfortunate and unwarranted deductions of June and July 2020 salaries” calling on the government to immediately reverse the obnoxious policy. In a bulletin made available to FOMBINATIMES, the organized labour said the action constitute a serious injustice on the toiling civil servants in the state whose plight was worsened by the incursion of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The leadership of the organized labour, Adamawa State received with a very deep shock and monumental bewilderment, the unfortunate and unwarranted deductions in July 2020 salaries of Adamawa State workers despite…

The Periscope reporter Adamawa state Police Command has arrested arrested 26 years old phedophile called Pwadimadi for raping four years old baby in Numan. The press release Sunday, issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Suleiman Yahya Nguroje revealed that the “Detectives attached to Numan Division arrested one PWADIMADI ZEHAM 26 years old resident of Mbulawa ward, Numan local government area, for Raping a 4-year old baby. “The suspect who happens to be a close neighbor to the survivor, took her into his room on July 23, 2020  and defiled her,” Nguroje said. Nguroje said that the survivor’s mother…

Mamman Mohammed On June 25th, 2020, Nigeria’s ruling political party the APC, took a decisive measure to save the party from an imminent collapse. The party was sitting on the edge of a cliff drifting towards disintegration. Numerous internal wranglings, several court cases and power play were threatening the very existence of the party. The party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), was left with the only option of dissolving the National Working Committee (NWC). And so it was, the NWC was dissolved. The next challenge was to get the right person for the job at this challenging moment. The unanimous decision of…

By Clement A. Oloyede & Tijjani Ibrahim, Kano  Reactions have continued to trail the re-appointment of the deposed Chiroman Kano, Sanusi Ado Bayero, and the deposed Sarkin Dawaki Maituta, Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, into the Kano Emirate Council. Bayero, the elder brother of the current Emir of Kano, Aminu, was deposed as the Chiroman Kano in 2015 after his alleged refusal to pay allegiance to the then Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II. Dan Agundi, on his part, was deposed in 2003 by late Emir Abdullahi Ado Bayero, the father of the current Emir, over insubordination. His sack was affirmed…

The Periscope reporter * They operate in Belel and environs, forcing their victims to Cameroon before negotiating for ransom – Cameroonian security * Not for poverty children from famous families bring kidnapping shame to Belel – Youth The three suspected Belel kidnapper kingpins arrested on July 22 by the Cameroonian authority, handed over to Nigerian government, have confessed to their crimes which led to further arrests in Nigeria Recall that the Periscope has on July 22, reported that the three arrested suspected criminals all indigenes of Belel district, Maiha local government in Adamawa state, are Hammadu and Beto, identified as…

The PerisQutba The unity of humankind in devotion and supplication to the unity of one God, has occupied the Jumu’at qutba today. It is the month of Dhul Hajj; the month of pilgrimage, marking the hallmark of sacrifice. Even though, owing to Covid-19, Mosques, for the most part, have shortened their Qutba, are however united in spelling out the Dos, the Don’ts and the virtues of the ten most worthy days of Dhul Hajj. It is a month of peace, adorned with answered prayers, as Qur’anic recitation and reflection, intensified devotion, love and brotherhood, as it is reflected in the…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Yola, the Adamawa State capital has referred back the case of the embattled Yola Magistrate, Shehu Mustapha to Federal High court Yola for fresh trial. The Appeal Court held that the Federal High Yola which the matter was first heard and determined, lacked requisite jurisdiction to had delivered judgement on the matter due to the fact that as at the time of the judgment, the presiding judge had taken an oath and sworn in as justice of the Appeal Court. Recall that the Federal High Court in Yola had in December last year, sentenced…

Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to lean on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).  This was disclosed to newsmen by Mai Mala Buni, Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Kebbi State after the duo met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday.

* The labour union leadership ought to have notified her members to prepare against the temporary shortfall – political observer The Periscope reporter Adamawa state government workers to have danced the fresh air chorus with the Fintiri, Fintiri onomatopoeia rhythm of the ATM machine, groaned over the without notice, hence unprepared suspension of payment of salary with minimum wage as reflected in their July salary, for which most of them have over budgeted. “Don’t you notice the state is in civil servant sober reflection?” A worker at the ATM machine lamented. Silas, a social commentator, articulated that a hide and…