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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph |Leonard Karshima Shilgba |Nick Agule
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –Nasarawa State Police Command has assured that a thorough investigation will be carried out in order to fish out those who killed 7 persons over the weekend in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Shettima, gave the assurance when he visited Tattara community in Karu Local Government Area of the State, where some residents were killed by unknown gunmen, condoled with the families of the deceased.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), College of Agriculture, Science, and Technology (COAST Chapter), Lafia, Nasarawa State, has elected new officials to pilot it’s affairs for the next two years. In a keenly contested election for the chairmanship position, Dr. Jero Ose Agbo, who is of the department of linguistics of the institution, secured 102 votes to beat his closest rival, Jonah Osu Adamu, of Basic Sciences, who got 87 votes.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –Unknown gunmen have kidnapped a former member of the House of Representatives from Nasarawa State, Dr. Joseph Haruna Kigbu, popularly known as (Likitan Talakawa). Kigbu, was kidnapped on Sunday, alongside his wife in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, on his way from Jos to Abuja.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph |Umar Ardo Ph.D
By DANJUMA Joseph, Lafia –Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has presented the 2025 appropriation bill before the Nasarawa State House of Assembly (NSHA) estimated at N382, 567, 843, 592.03, with education taking the lionshare of N78.16bn representing 20.4 percent. Governor Sule presented the appropriation bill tagged Budget of Economic Growth and Stability at the assembly complex in Lafia on Friday.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph |Ex-Firs Chairman |Muhammad Nami
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia–First class graduates in any field of Phoenix University Agwada, in Nasarawa State, will be given automatic employment. The founder of the University, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, made the promise at the first matriculation ceremony of the institution held at its permanent site in Agwada, Kokona Local Government Area, where 260 students were officially inducted. Sen.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has submitted Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N156.6bn for 2024 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly for approval. The Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, made this known during the House proceedings today in Lafia. He said that the bill, if scaled through would enable the state government provide the much needed dividends of democracy to the people of the State.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –Local Government chairmen and elected councillors in Nasarawa State, are to maintain the status quo by spending only 3 years in office. This was the resolution of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly (NSHA), concerning the tenure ofelected Local Government Chairmen and Councilors in the State. It will be recall that the immediate passed local government chairmen and their councillors spent only 3 years in office.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –Members of the 7th Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has passed vote of confidence on the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, over his leadership qualities. This followed a motion brought by the Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Suleiman Yakubu Azara, under matters of Public interest during the House proceedings in Lafia, yesterday.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
farmlandgrab.org | Danjuma Joseph
National Accord | 25 October 2024Nigeria: Nasarawa Govt begins harvest of 10,000 hectares of riceBy DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of it’s 2,000 hectares of rice farm in Jangwa village of Awe Local Government Area of State. Governor Sule, flagged off the harvest on Thursday, when he led government officials and journalists on a visit to the farm to suppervised the harvest.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | Danjuma Joseph
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia –The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of it’s 2,000 hectares of rice farm in Jangwa village of Awe Local Government Area of State. Governor Sule, flagged off the harvest on Thursday, when he led government officials and journalists on a visit to the farm to suppervised the harvest. The 2000 hectares of rice is part of the 10,000 hectares initially earmarked for the food security programme.
