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The Adamawa State Poverty Alleviation and Wealth Creation Agency (PAWECA) says it will wipe poverty from among people of the state by the year 2027. The agency which said on Tuesday that it has spent over N4.4 billion in empowering youths and women for self actualisation in the last couple of years, stressed that it […]

Speech delivered by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri after the Supreme Court judgement that affirmed his victory as duly elected governor of Adamawa State. Monday, February 5, 2024 Fellow citizens of Adamawa State. I want to start on a personal philosophical note. When I took the decision to join partisan politics, I walked into it with […]

Every election year, as usual, Nigerian politics is replete with drama; the theatre of the absurd. This does not mean that we are maturing in democracy; no, it is a mirror of the power of our diversity. After more than two decades of democratic process, one would have expected that the 2023 elections would be […]

The Principal Special Assistant to the Governor on Water Resources and Sanitation, Hon. Abubakar Isa (Marafa Shelleng) has congratulated the governor of the state, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, on his victory at the Supreme Court. The Marafa Shelleng says the victory is an answer to the prayers of Adamawa people. In a statement to […]

Adamawa State Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa George Farauta has canvassed votes for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Musa Mahmud Kallamu, in Saturday’s assembly re-run for Mayo-Belwa constituency. Farauta who led a campaign train consisting of the state executive council members, said voting Kallamu means bringing more hands to consolidate on the gains of democracy […]

Adamawa state government has empowered 400 agricultural cooperative societies. The government says this is a plan to improve food security. Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri said at the event where the empowerment program was unveiled that government had in 2023 empowered 5,000 in the realization of the importance of cooperative societies to the development of societies […]

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has appointed chairman and members of the Adamawa State Muslim Pilgrims Board. The board is headed by Alhaji Bappari Kem as the chairman. A statement released Monday evening by Fintiri’s Chief Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, gave the names of nine other members. The members include Abubakar Kaja, Umar Yaro, Ibrahim Umar, and […]

The Adamawa State Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta has advised that strike should be the last option of negotiation between unions and employers. Addressing a delegation of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) Monday led by its national President Mohammed Ibrahim in her office, Farauta urged the union to support institutions in their quest […]

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State on Monday inaugurated skills training for 105 women and youths. The six-week training is to entrench entrepreneural knowhow on the beneficiaries for self-reliance. The governor said that for the technology entrepreneurship skills and mindset development training holding at the Technical College Yola, beneficiaries were drawn from across the […]

Adamawa State Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa George Farauta, has asked the military to always adhere to rules of engagement in the discharge of their duties. Farauta said civil and military relationship would wax stronger when the military personnel carry out their duties within their limits as rights violation has tendencies to undermine security efforts. Speaking […]