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The Periscope reporter * Nigerian students will not participate in SSCE exam slated to commence August 4 * WAEC can’t determine resumption date for Nigerian schools The federal government has reviewed its earlier decision to reopen schools to enable final year students participate in scheduled external examinations. Schools across the country were closed in March to curb the spread of COVID-19. The federal government had earlier announced July 13 as the reopening date for graduating students in Primary Six, JSS 3 and SSS 3. Announcing the suspension Wednesday, at the state house, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said…

The Periscope reporter The Hon. Chairman Maiha local government, Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, Dr. IDi Ali Amin has presented a budget proposal for the year 2020. Presenting the budget Tuesday,  tagged “Budget of Development,” to the legislative council at the local government council chamber in Maiha, Hon. Idi said when granted legislative approval, it would ensure project and development at the grassroot level; taking dividends of democracy to the doorstep of the people of Maiha LGA. The budget proposal covered renovation of classrooms, chairman’s and other houses, road rehabilitation, cemetery community dispensary and procurement of utility vehicle among other capital…

 Richard Quest My symptoms were on the milder side: I never had breathing difficulties, or loss of sense or smell. I was wiped-out tired and I always had “the cough,” which has now returned. The Covid cough is not like your usual cough-it-up deep cough (what doctors politely call a “productive cough.”) It is very distinctive. It is a dry, raspy, wheezy, cough. In my case, lots of short, expelling gasps of air, followed by a long, deep, chest-wrenching expiration cough, that has standers by wondering if I am going to keel over. I have tested negative for the virus…

The Periscope reporter The North East Development Commission NEDC has donated an ambulance to the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Yola. Presenting the ambulance at the NEDC office in Yola, Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, the state coordinator, Miss Fatima Bakari urged the management and staff of FMC Yola not to relent in rendering effective and efficient healthcare delivery services. Receiving the donated ambulance on behalf of the management of FMC Yola, the Assistant Director Audit, Mr. Lazarus Zirra commended the interventional activities of NEDC, assuring that the ambulance will be utilised for the purpose, which the donation was intended. Zirra was…

The Periscope reporter The embattled chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes commission EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has been suspended Magu is alleged to have been claimed by the decay, having said to be found to be in intercourse with the very same monster he is assigned to destroy. Magu, the insider can reveal, was suspended on Tuesday in the afternoon from heading the anti-corruption agency by the Nigerian Presidency. Magu’s suspension come a day after he was grilled by an inter-agency presidential panel on allegations of corruption. The question that is left to be asked is, “who is to be…

Operatives of the Zamfara State Police Command have arrested a 30-year-old suspected bandit Abubakar Namalika who confessed to be among those who killed one Doctor Okpara Enoch, a consultant with the Federal Medical Center, Gusau, Zamfara state.  He said he got N5,000 for killing 7 people including the Late Dr. Okpara. The suspect made this revelation while answering questions from Journalists shortly after he was paraded by the Zamfara State Police commissioner at the Command headquarters in Gusau on Monday. According to him, one Shehu Bagewaye their gang leader sends them to kidnap innocent people but gave them meagre amount…

The Periscope reporter Lelewalji is a fast growing community in Yola south local government area of Adamawa state; it is a location just after Shagari low-cost housing units. The community is well designed and structured with impeccable layouts. The buildings in the area are for the most part, suggestive of the middle-class settlement. The constraint however, is motorable road, especially during rainy season. Road work was said to have started in the area during the time of Governor Murtala Hammanyero Nyako, known as Baba Mainangoro, whose “Ojippa Tan,” slogan, like Kwara’s “Otoge,” saw to the humiliating defeat of his successor,…

By Hon Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin I love these twin cities because whereas one represents tradition, the other represents modernity. While Yola was titled “Yola Garin Lamido,” Jimeta was titled “Jimeta Garin Gomna”. It is so because Lamido and his palace are in Yola, while the governor and the Government House are in Jimeta. The two cities are divided by a river called river Chochi. The original Yola master plan deliberately made this demarcation for obvious reasons beyond the scope of this piece. But I was told that in between Jimeta and Yola, a mash land was deliberately left to create…

The Adamawa State House of Assembly has passed a resolution mandating its standing Committee on Judiciary and Justice to liaise with the relevant authorities for reopening of court proceedings in the State. The House resolution Monday, followed a motion of matters of urgent public importance raised by the member representing Verre constituency, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Yapak, during plenary. Hon Yapak said following recent attacks by the notorious Shilla the state capital and its environs among other criminal activities, police cells  are overstressed as courts remained closed, depriving prosecution Yapak also observed that the state is degenerating into a state of…

The Periscope reporter The lawmaker representing Verre Constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdullahi Umar Yapak Monday, presented a bill, he considered as “a matter of urgent public importance,” seeking for the reopening of the law courts to salvage the state from sinking into stinking state of anarchy. “Mr Speaker, Hon Members, I move that Order 40 sub-rules 1 and 2 of the Rules of this Hon. House be suspended to enable me present a matter of urgent public importance. “The matter of urgent public importance I am addressing the Honourable Members of the House on this…