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Views: Visits 57 Two officials of the Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC), Ebenezer Otinjele and Juliana Daniel, have been arrested by the police in Adamawa over an alleged extra-marital affair. The two suspects are currently being held in police custody at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Yola. It was gathered that Mr Otinjele is a pastor with the Liberty International Gospel Centre, Yola, the Adamawa State Capital, while Mrs Daniel is also a female pastor at Enco...

Dr Innocent Vakkai, the Taraba Commissioner for Health, on Tuesday, denied local media reports that he embezzled the sum of N1.2 billion COVID-19 funds given to the state by the Federal Government to tackle the virus.

13 min read Overall, our budget does not focus on the Nigerian people. That is the problem. Like our police, our budget is focused on our elites and their usual enjoyments. It is something to be shared amongst them, in the hope that perhaps some crumbs will drop off their table to the poor masses. The budget is a tragedy. To compound our woes, the budget is deliberately darkened in different important areas, papered over and made opaque where it should be transparent. In spite o...

Taraba health commissioner denies embezzling N1.2bn COVID-19 funds Taraba health commissioner denies embezzling N1.2bn COVID-19 funds Share Taraba State Commissioner for Health, Dr Innocent Vakkai has debunked local media reports that he personally embezzled N1.2billion COVID-19 grant donated by the Federal Government to manage the pandemic in the state. Vakai, who is also chairman Taraba State Technical Committee on COVID-19 said the publication was false, targeted at tarnishing his image and...

Vanguard News Striking resident doctors demand beyond hazard allowance —Taraba Govt On By Femi Bolaji,Jalingo As resident doctors strike in Taraba state enters week three, the state government, Tuesday said the demands of the aggrieved doctors were beyond the payment of COVID-19 hazard and inducement allowance. The state commissioner for health, Dr Innocent Vakkai speaking at a press parley, also disclosed that a committee has been constituted to compile the total cost of the COVID-19 hazard...

Taraba state government has said over N34.39 billion would be used to fund salaries, pensions, and gratuities of its workforce in 2021...

FRSC relocates illegal motor parks, markets near highways in Taraba FRSC relocates illegal motor parks, markets near highways in Taraba Share The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday relocated motor parks and markets near the highways to other locations in order to reduce road traffic crashes and fatalities in Jalingo. Corps Commander Selina Williams, the Taraba Sector Commander of FRSC, who led the team of officers on the clearance operation at Mile Six Market, along Jalingo-Yola road s...

Share Taraba State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Solomon Elisha, on Monday, disclosed that the state government has begun the process to explore the untapped mineral resources to boost the state IGR. Elisha made this known while addressing journalists in Jalingo, explaining that the untapped resources in the state were capable of turning Taraba into an economic hub of Nigeria. He noted that the state government has planned to spend N82,242,640,650.90 as recurrent expenditure in the 2021...

  Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested two high profiled kidnappers terrorising Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State. The arrest followed intelligence gathering by men of the command on the nefarious activities of the kidnap kingpins. Parading them before journalists on Monday in Jalingo, the State Commandant of NSCDC, Muhammed Waksha, said that more are still at large and their nets are spread across Taraba to get them arrested. “The...

The Federal Government, under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, has launched Vision 30:30:30. That means 30 gigawatts to be achieved with 30 per cent renewables by 2030. This is the vision of Mr President as regards the power sector. Coming to the Federal Ministry of Power under my leadership, I have five focal areas as my roadmap. The first is the alignment of the whole electricity value chain – generation, transmission and distribution; the increase of power generation capacity;...