Taraba State House of Assembly on Thursday, in Jalingo impeached the state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Sani Abubakar, from office. The action followed the Assembly’s adoption of the recommendation of the seven-member Judicial Commission of inquiry set up by Justice Josephine Tuktur, the acting Chief Judge of the state. The commission, with Mr. Usman Dangiri […]
No fewer than five people were confirmed dead and more than 50 persons declared missing following torrential rains and flooding in Lau, Karim-Lamido and Gassol Local Government of Taraba. In separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday, the chairmen of the affected councils also said crops and livestock worth millions of Naira […]
Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers on Tuesday raided three commercial banks in Wukari, Taraba State and carted away large sums of money. The Police Commissioner in the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Maishanu, who confirmed the robbery in a telephone chat with the News Agency of Nigeria in Jalingo on Wednesday, said the operation lasted for […]
INADEQUATE medical facilities and data may mar the efforts of the Taraba State government to curtail the outbreak of meningitis in the state. Seventy-eight cases of meningitis have been reported to the Taraba State Ministry of Health and five deaths recorded as at Wednesday. However, only one case has been medically confirmed to be meningitis […]
From PETER SHAHAAGBAOR, Jalingo, Taraba An outbreak of Lassa fever has killed seven people in Mayo-renewa district of Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of Taraba State. Addressing journalists in Jalingo, yesterday, the State Commissioner of Health, Mustapha Hamman Gabdo said four people died at the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo, one at the Specialist Hospital also in […]
A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, on Monday told an Abuja High Court that she complained to the then Taraba state Governor, Rev Jolly Nyame, about the way the state government disbursed various sums of money to contractors for jobs not done. At the resumed hearing of the case […]
The Taraba State government has concluded plans to sack any civil servant found working with forged certificates in the state. It further warned that it would no longer be business as usual, as dismissal now awaited any- one found in the act of indiscipline. The state Head of Service, Mr Augustine Bazing, who handed down the warning […]
Jalingo: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a Kenya-based American investor to inspect about 30,000 hectares of marshy land in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State for possible commercial rice cultivation. Obasanjo, was accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and Gov. Dambaba Suntai of Taraba State. The former president described the […]
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed his happiness over the vision of governor Danbaba Suntai in the agricultural sector. He stated this in Jalingo when he led an America-based Kenyan, Mr.Calvin on a courtesy call on governor Suntai at government house, Jalingo on Friday. Chief Obasanjo appreciated the natural endowments in Taraba State, describing it […]
A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, has told a High Court in the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja, how N450 million was paid by the state government to several persons to supply stationery and office equipment. The permanent secretary said out of the N450 million only N16 million […]
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