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The sixth Nasarawa State House of Assembly has re-elected Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi (APC-Umaisha/Ugya constituency) as Speaker.

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Thursday says it passed over 40 bills and 80 resolutions between 2015 and 2019.

The Speaker of Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, has been re-elected into the state House of Assembly in last Saturday’s election.

The Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, has begun his third term senatorial campaign with a call on Nigerians to vote President Muhammadu Buhari, to complete his good work beyond 2019.

The Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not be an alternative to the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) in 2019.

Alhaji Isa Ibraheem, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), candidate for the Umaisah/Ugya seat in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, says he will tackle youth restiveness if elected.

Alhaji Issa Ibraheem, a Social Democratic Party candidate for Nasarawa State House of Assembly, says that the party will win a landslide victory in the Umaisha/Ugya state constituency during the 2019 general election.

The crisis rocking the Bassa and Egbura communities in Toto local Government Area of Nasarawa State and some neighboring communities in Kogi State have claimed many lives.

Toto Local Government Council of Nasarawa State said on Saturday that it would refund the 20 per cent (about N1.8million) staff salaries deducted in April to curtail security challenges facing the area.

He said the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin in consultation with service chiefs and commanders of other security agencies re-strategised and constituted the operation to ensure peace and security of lives and properties in the affected states returned back to normal.

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said it arrested suspected spiritual head of militia armed group in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State after destroying some of the group’s camps in Ugya village in the area.

Soldiers of the 177 Guards Battalion, Keffi, have destroyed strongholds and camps used by militia groups terrorizing the people of Nasarawa state and surrounding areas.

Over 20 people were slaughtered in their cold blood in Ugya, Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State in a communal clash that erupted, on Tuesday, between the Ebira and Bassa ethnic groups.

The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, on Friday urged Nigerians to pray for the safe release of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram.

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly, on Monday, passed into law a bill for a law to amend the Area Courts law 1968 which made it clearly for the appointment of only graduates of law as Area Court judges in the state.