photo Gombe State receives one of the least allocations in the federation, but the infrastructure put in place by the state government has made it one of the fastest developing states in the country, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly has said. The Speaker, Hon. Inuwa Garba, who is also Chairman of the Nigeria Speakers Conference, disclosed this at a sensitisation and capacity building workshop on “Fiscal Responsibility Law”, held in Gombe, the state capital. The Speaker said that Gombe State government was able to utilise the little allocations received from federal allocation to embark on development projects that have been transforming the state in only one year. He said this has been achieved as a result of the efforts of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo led administration, which operates an open door policy and was committed to run a government based on transparency, rule of law, accountability and good governance. Hon Inuwa Garba stated that Gombe State could be the first state in the country to sign the Fiscal Responsibility bill into law. He said the law was passed by the House on Jan. 26, 2012, and assented to on Feb. 2, 2012, by Governor Dankwambo, in order to ensure transparency and accountability in governance.

Luck betrayed a 65-year-old grandmother, Hassan Fatimat Abike also known as Chika Okoye, who attempted to smuggle 1.740kg of cocaine into London concealed in herbal syrup.
It was not her fist time of going to London as the drug was packed in balloons and inserted in 10 plastic containers of herbal syrup to avoid detection.
The suspect was to board a British Airways flight when officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested her at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos on Wednesday.
According to the Airport Commander, Mr. Hamza Umar, the suspect has two international passports that bear Hassan Fatimat Abike.
Her passport numbers are A03348648 and A3771781A. “She was caught during the screening of British Airways passengers to London,” Hamza explained.