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COVID 19: 11 test positive in Jalingo NYSC orientation camp On Eleven National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) members undergoing orientation in Taraba have tested positive for COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Innocent Vakkai, the Chairman of the COVID-19 Technical Committee in Taraba, announced this on Monday at a news conference organised by the state Ministry of Information and Orientation in Jalingo. He said that the victims were currently receiving treatments at various isolation centres in the state. V...

Advertisement According to NAN, Innocent Vakkai, the state commissioner for health, broke the news at a press conference in Jalingo, the state capital, on Monday. Vakkai said the corps members are currently receiving treatments at various isolation centres in the state. The commissioner urged residents of the state to be cautious of the pandemic and also appealed to them to always observe COVID-19 protocols to mitigate the spread of the disease. Advertisement Owing to the increase in confirmed ...

An investigation by our reporters, including reported cases in the media between 2018 and 2020, show that those kidnapped were in Nigeria for business and diplomatic activities. The cases exclude many abductions that have not been reported because families of the victims preferred to sort out their troubles without involving the state. While some of the victims were carefully monitored by their abductors ahead of picking them up, others were seized by the kidnappers on highways. Some of the kid...

Share The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State chapter, has announced its intention to write world powers including the United States, the United Kingdom and the Canadian governments over the threats it alleged that are being posed to perceived political opponents by Governor David Umahi.  The party has alleged that since Umahi decamped from the PDP to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), he has targeted all those that refused to join him in his new party using all sorts of unwho...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 20 December 2020 A former President, Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), shares with TUNDE AJAJA his thoughts on the calls for restructuring and the state of the nation Years ago, you filed a suit about the disparity in the cut-off mark for students from the North and South as regard admission into Federal Government Colleges, what prompted the suit at that time? I filed the suit because I have grandchildren. I said to myself that if my grandc...

    The National Judicial Council has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges and dismissed petitions against 18 others. In a statement issued on Sunday by the Director of Information, Soji Oye, the decision followed NJC’s 93rd Meeting which held in Abuja virtually on December 16. According to him, the affected judges are Hon. Grand Kadi, Shu’aibu A. Talba, the Grand Kadi of Yobe State and Hon. Justice Abdulkareem Babatunde Abdulrasaq of Osun State High Court. “The National ...

A Photo of the NJC building The National Judicial Council has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges and dismissed petitions against 18 others. In a statement issued on Sunday by the Director of Information, Soji Oye, the decision followed NJC’s 93rd Meeting which held in Abuja virtually on December 16. According to him, the affected judges are Hon. Grand Kadi, Shu’aibu A. Talba, the Grand Kadi of Yobe State and Hon. Justice Abdulkareem Babatunde Abdulrasaq of Osun State High C...

Punch Newspapers Sections Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The National Judicial Council has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judicial officers, the Grand Kadi of Yobe State, Shu’aibu Talba, and Justice Abdulkareem Babatunde Abdulrasaq of Osun State High Court, for alleged age falsification. The NJC’s Director, Information, Mr Soji Oye, stated in a statement on Sunday that the council took its decision at its 93rd meeting held virtually on December 16, 2020. He stated that the council’s f...

While the registration and issuance of NIN to Nigerians is supposed to be free, findings by our correspondents across some NIMC registration centres indicate that applicants are being extorted during the exercise. The extortion and racketeering in the registration process seem to have exacerbated following the deadline for registration issued by government, coupled with the demand by various government agencies requiring NIN as a mandatory requirement to register for examinations such as JAMB-U...

  The Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, has signed the 2021 appropriation bill into law. Governor Ishaku, shortly after signing the bill into law at the governor’s lodge in Abuja said with the passage of the budget, the government is ready to begin full implementation in the new year. He assured that the government will be strict in expenditure control to ensure efficiency in spending and accountability. Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, presents the 2021 budget proposal to members o...