The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACoN) has facilitated the release of 36 inmates from two custodial centres in Nasarawa State. This is in a renewed push to decongest correctional facilities across the country. The exercise, conducted under LACoN’s jail delivery initiative,… Legal Aid Council secures release of 36 inmates in Nasarawa …C0NTINUE READING HERE … Read more
Nigerian Minister of Works Dave Umahi, has explained that the 227.2 kilometre Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Makurdi highway is being tolled after its completion because of a public-private partnership.He disclosed this at the 2025 Ministerial Briefing in Abuja on Friday. According to… Why Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Makurdi road is tolled — Minister of Works, Umahi …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>>
The first batch of over 400 intending pilgrims from Nasarawa State have departed Nigeria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage. The pilgrims left the country on Saturday via a direct flight from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport,… Hajj 2025: Over 400 Nasarawa pilgrims depart Abuja for Saudi Arabia …C0NTINUE … Read more
The North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Forum has asked Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, to stop playing “double game” and come clean on whether he is with President Bola Tinubu or working with those who are opposed to the President. The Forum, in a… ‘Declare whether you are with or against Tinubu’ – APC Forum … Read more
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has shut down a registered water factory in Lafia, Nasarawa State, after it was caught illegally producing five different water products. Deputy Director and Head of the NAFDAC Lafia office, Anga… NAFDAC shuts down water plant in Nasarawa …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>>
Seventeen members of the Tiv ethnic group in Nasarawa State have taken legal action against the state government, accusing it of unlawfully seizing their ancestral farmlands in Awe and Obi Local Government Areas. The lawsuit, filed at the Nasarawa State High Court in Lafia,… Tiv communities sue Nasarawa government over alleged land grab …C0NTINUE READING … Read more
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has facilitated the long-awaited return of the Bassa ethnic group to their ancestral homes in Toto Local Government Area—seven years after communal violence forced them into displacement. The Bassa communities, which were uprooted… Nasarawa governor returns displaced Bassa communities to ancestral homes after 7 years …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>>
The Adamu Bako-led State Working Committee (SWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State has extended a hand of reconciliation to the aggrieved faction loyal to Senator Mohammed Ogoshi Onawo, following the recent Court of Appeal judgment that validated the… Nasarawa PDP leadership extends olive branch to Onawo group after Appeal Court victory … Read more
Tension flared in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Friday as hundreds of Tiv farmers marched through the streets of Lafia, protesting what they described as the illegal seizure of their ancestral farmlands by the state government. The demonstrators, drawn from… Tiv farmers protest alleged land seizure by Nasarawa government …C0NTINUE READING HERE … Read more