After several months of legal tussle between Zenith Bank Plc v Real Integrated & Hospitality Limited and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Gombe State, a three-man panel in the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos led by Justice Muhammed Sirajo in Appeal No:CA/LAG/CV/262/2022 – have unanimously upturned the Lagos State High Court judgment of […]
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The Gombe State Government has confirmed the death of four Lassa fever patients out of the 53 suspected cases recorded in the state. Nuhu Bille, acting State Epidemiologist, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Tuesday. “This year, we recorded 53 suspected cases of Lassa fever and […]
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Cholera outbreak at Tsangaya Islamic school, Madaki, in Gombe State, has led to the death of three pupils while 27 others were hospitalised. Kennedy Ishaya, Gombe State Commissioner of Health, confirmed the outbreak to journalists in Gombe on Sunday during an inspection visit to Madaki Primary Health Care facility where the victims are hospitalised. He […]
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A 13-year-old son of a policeman is suspected to have hanged himself in Gombe, the police said on Tuesday. DSP Mary Malum, the Police Public Relations Officer in Gombe State, said the boy, identified as Muhammadu Al-amin, was found hanging in his room. Malum said that about 4 p.m. on Monday, the father, Insp. Abdu […]
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Danjuma Goje, a Senator and former Governor of Gombe State, has lost his wife, Yelwa Goje. She died aged 55 in a hospital in the United States of America. Her passing was announced in a statement by her son, Ahmed Mohammed Goje. “With gratitude to Allah (SWT), I regret to announce the death of Her […]
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Fire has gutted the Jos transmission station through which electricity is being distributed to the fours states – Plateau, Bauchi, Benue and Gombe – served by the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC). NAN reports that the fire, which started around 5pm on Tuesday, razed down the facility, a transformer 150MVA 300/132 KV, located along Zaria […]
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The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidates have been declared winners of 13 local government chairmanship seats so far declared by the Taraba State Independent Electoral Commission. The PDP had also won all the local government chairmanship and councillorship seats in neighbouring Gombe State. The party also won the two parliamentary seats in the rerun election […]
Continue ReadingFive confirmed cases of Lassa fever were reported from four states of Nigeria within the ending of August and early September, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, said. The agency said two cases were reported in Plateau State, one each in Rivers, Bauchi and Gombe states. “The case reported from Gombe died on 22nd […]
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