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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, State News, Taraba
Monday, December 21st, 2015
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday reserved judgment in an appeal filed by Gov. Darius Ishaku of Taraba against the nullification of his electoral victory by a tribunal. Justice Abdul Aboki said the court would later announce the date for the judgment in the appeal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News, Taraba
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
No fewer than 100 people, including a pastor and three soldiers, were killed at the weekend and Monday in Plateau and Taraba states. Seventy of the deaths were recorded in Karim Lamido and Takum local government areas of Taraba State and 30 in two villages at the Barkin Ladi LGA of […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News, Taraba
Sunday, April 12th, 2015
First female Gov may emerge as APC takes lead in Taraba on April 12, 2015 / in News 6:58 pm / Comments BY JOHN MKOM, JALINGO The governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress in Taraba state Sen. Aisha Jumei Al-hasan has taken over a slide lead of the governorship election count […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, State News, Taraba
Friday, January 30th, 2015
President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was again stoned on Thursday by some aggrieved youths in Jalingo, Taraba State. Jonathan was in the city in continuation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential rally. His convoy had before Thursday been stoned in Katsina and Bauchi states when he went to seek the votes for his re-election bid. It […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Monday, September 15th, 2014
TARABA State governor, Danbaba Suntai, on Saturday, returned to Nigeria after several months of medical trip to London. Suntai, who was involved in an air crash in 2012, returned after 10 months of medical trip abroad, but on his return, the Taraba State House of Assembly, said he was unfit to assume duties, then the […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
The orgy of violence in the Northern part of the country continued on Monday night with gunmen setting the entire village of Andoyaku in the Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State ablaze. Twenty-five persons lost their lives to the incident which forced nearly all the residents to flee their homes. As news of the […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
Taraba State Governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai The Taraba State Government has cleared the air over a video quoting ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai as saying that he is not yet fit to return to the office as the governor of the state. A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Timothy Kataps, and […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Members of the Taraba State House of Assembly on Monday elected Mr. Josiah Kente as the new speaker. Kente, who represents Wukari 1 constituency, replaced Mr. Haruna Tsokwa, who died early this month. The House also received a list of new commissioners from the acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar. Goverrnor Danbaba Suntai, had on […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
Taraba State Governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, on Friday, held talks with sacked commissioners and special advisers as they paid a solidarity visit to him at Government House, Jalingo Suntai had on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 dissolved the State Executive Council, leaving only his assistants, few days after he returned from a 10-month stay in German […]