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Share The Taraba State Chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) on Monday suspended her two months old strike. Resident Doctors in the State had on December 24, 2020, embarked on indefinite strike action over what they termed as the government’s inability to honour and implement the MOU signed in September 2020. Announcing the suspension of the strike at a press conference in Jalingo, President of the association in the state, Dr Gabriel Ahmed, said the decision was reached after ...

Vanguard News NSIP: FG trains 57 independent monitors in Taraba On By Joseph Erunke ABUJA- THE federal government has trained 57 independent  monitors to oversee programme beneficiaries for the National Social Investment programmes in Taraba State. A statement by Rhoda Iliya, Deputy Director of Information in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development,quoted the minister, Sadiya  Umar  Farouq, of disclosing this while declaring open the training progra...

The informants, residing in Jalingo and towns and villages across the state, are the ones who give directions to the kidnappers to abduct people for ransom because they live among the people and know them better. The rate of kidnapping, it was gathered, has instilled fear in the minds of residents of Jalingo as well as those residing in other parts of the state. The hoodlums in recent weeks have killed five persons including a local government chairman and secretary of one of the chiefdoms in t...

Farmers-herders crisis: VON DG, Okechukwu backs AGF’s proposal for Pastoral Commission Published The Director General of Voice of Nigeria and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu has endorsed the proposal by the Hon. Attorney General of the Federation (HAGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, for the establishment of a Pastoral Commission as a solution to the farmers-herders crisis in the country. Okechukwu, who spoke with journalists in Abuja Sunday, o...

NCFRMI/UNHCR and Task of managing Refugees in Nigeria On By Agidike Abdul Onu The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) was originally established as National Commission for Refugees by Decree 52 of 1989, now Cap. 21, Laws of the Federation, 2004. This was in fulfilment of the Federal Government’s obligation under Resolution 319(IV) of the General Assembly of the United Nations and Article 35 of the United Nations 1951 Convention. Article 1a(2) ...

Darlington Nwuko I saw a disturbing picture of a well-dressed lady on social media, standing on one of the streets of Maitama, Abuja, literally pleading to Nigerians to rescue her from acute joblessness. An obvious frustrated young woman, who happens to be a graduate in International Relations, pinned the placard on her chest with boldly writing inscription: “I need a job”. This is the height of desperation and despondency in the country. That picture has been trending on social media since...

The Centre for Social Change and Economic Development Nigeria (CSCED) says it is training 600 farmers and herders on alternative feedstock and commercial opportunities from its value chain development in Taraba to mitigate farmers/herders crisis in the state. Alhaji Mustapha Baba, the team leader, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jalingo on Saturday. x Baba said that 20 agricultural extension workers which were already t...

Gradually, but steadily, the storm begins to gather. The firmament becomes misty and cloudy. The ship begins to drift, moving to no particular direction. People no longer see beyond their nose. No one trusts the other. Anxiety begins to mount, Tension grips the land. Uncertainty envelopes the atmosphere. Everybody begins to...The Advocate

Punch Newspapers Sections Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The long absence of the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, from the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and the country became more pronounced on Wednesday, when she attained the age of 50. Outspoken Mrs Buhari had gone off the radar around September 2020 shortly after the wedding of her daughter, Hanan. An online newspaper, But shortly after, one of her aides, Kabiru Dodo, said Mrs Buhari was on a foreign medical trip. Dodo said in Jalingo in Decembe...

“Investigation is ongoing at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Lafia. ” On 14/2/2021 at about 1630hrs, while working on credible intelligence, Police personnel attached to Awe Division arrested two suspected kidnappers namely: (i) Yunusa Alhaji Yusuf Alias Nunu “m” aged 30years of Obi LGA (ii) Yusuf Alhassan “m” of Azara in Awe LGA. “A small bag containing criminal charms and a cash sum of four hundred and fifty thousand naira (#450,000) were recovered from the suspects...