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Abdullahi Gana, the Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has directed the agency’s Forensic Psychology unit to work out a timetable for security profiling and psychological test of all personnel. NSCDC The directive followed the Gombe State incident of Sunday...

Ten people were killed and more than 30 children wounded when a policeman drove his car into a group of children during an Easter procession in Gombe State. The Policeman and other occupants of his car were reportedly killed by... Read more via Laila’s Blog – http://bit.ly/2PqQ8hX Get More...

The Deputy Governor of Gombe State and the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), North East Chapter, on Monday, appealed to the Christian community to remain calm. The appeal followed the death of 10 persons, majority of whom were hit by a car during a … Read more via...

The acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered a speedy and comprehensive investigation into a fatal car accident in Gombe State on Easter day, where 11 people were reported dead. .... Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2Xwe6eE Get More Nigeria Metro News

A car ran into a Boys’ Brigade procession in Gombe State late on Sunday evening, killing at least 10, the Police have confirmed. SaharaReporters learnt that the Boys’ Brigade, from ECWA Church, Bamusa in Barunde and from St Peter’s Anglican Church in were in a procession to Sabon-Layi …...

The number of those killed in a petrol tanker explosion in Gombe State has risen to 16. The Assistant Director of Nurses at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Musa Gyade, confirmed this to Channels Television on Sunday. Eleven people were initially confirmed dead with several others injured...

No fewer than 11 people have been confirmed dead, with several others injured after a tanker exploded along the Gombe Biu bypass. The Head of the Accident and Emergency Unit of the State specialist hospital in Gombe confirmed this on grounds of anonymity. Channels Television gathered that …...

No fewer than 10 persons have reportedly died and several cars burnt as tanker, which was laden with fuel exploded on a bridge in Gombe State. According to Daily Trust, the tanker, carrying petrol, collided with another truck, carrying bottle water along Gombe southern bypass. It was … Read...

The Gombe state zonal office of EFCC on March 28, 2019 secured the conviction of Ishiyaku Garba, Councillor of Bolari East, Gombe, who was arraigned before Justice Sa'ad Moh'd of a State High Court on a three-count charge bordering bribery.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog –...

One Alhaji Amadu Garkuwa and Ibrahim Abdul, were on Tuesday arraigned before Justice Abubakar Jauro of the state’s High Court, sitting in Gombe. The suspects were arraigned by Gombe Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 19, 2019 on a one-count charge …...

The All Progressive Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of Gombe State gubernatorial election. The party polled a total of 364,179 votes to beat the.... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2XOnxqR Get More Nigeria Political News

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Gombe State has condemned the attack of the convoy of the Executive Governor of the State, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, Talban Gombe at Lafiyawo village, an outskirt of Gombe town while he was..... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria –...

Thugs have attacked the convoy of the Gombe state Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo, setting two cars among the entourage ablaze. The Director of Media of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council in the … Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2ErcYBa Get More Nigeria...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council for the 2019 general elections in Gombe state has commended the resilience of its members and the entire people of the state for their support and followership during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections, despite alleged...

President Muhammdu Buhari has won Gombe State by a landslide victory in Saturday’s presidential election..... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2IDH21L Get More Nigeria Political News

The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress has been declared by INEC collation officer of Kwami local government Prof. Umar Gurama, of federal university Kashere, who declared the results for the Gombe North Senatorial district. Alkali polled a total of 152,546 to defeat his … Read more...

President Muhammadu Buhari has flagged off drilling of crude oil at the Kolmani River- II well, a site between Gombe and Bauchi States. The drilling of the Kolmani River-II well, falls into two deliverables which are; to increase crude oil and gas reserves and production as well as intensify …...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State, Dr. Jamil Isyaku Gwamna, has inaugurated a campaign office, which he donated to coordinate the Northeast campaign activities for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 16 presidential election.... Read...

Justice Babatunde Quadri of a Federal High Court, sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has fixed March 22, 2019 to rule on the “no-case” submission filed by a former governor of Gombe State, Danjuma Goje...... Read more via TODAY.NG – http://bit.ly/2B33pHE Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Nigerian Facebook user, George Onmonya is concerned about the growing number of child labourers in Gombe State. He shared a photo of one of the children supplied by a certain ‘Doctor Bile Nuhu’ from Gombe, adding that the children are mostly from neighbouring states..... Read more via...