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By Musa Baba Adamu President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has advised the federal government to deploy the Natural Resources Development Fund to support enterprises within the agriculture and solid minerals sector, as a way of diversifying the nation’s economy. Lawan made the call in his concluding remark after the upper chamber considered a bill during plenary seeking to develop tea and coffee growth, production and marketing in Nigeria. According to the Senate President, “the Natural Res...

By Martins Abochol Jalingo, Dec. 18, 2020 The Federal Government distributed N5 million to 250 rural women in Taraba on Friday at N20,000 per head. Mr Garba Hanawiga, Director of Legal Services at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development made the disbursement in Jalingo on behalf of the minister, Hajia Sadiya Faruq. Hanawiga said that the special cash grant was introduced in 2020 by the ministry as part of Federal Government’s poverty reduction agenda ...

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Vanguard News Governor Ishaku signs 2021 appropriation bill into law On By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo Taraba state Governor, Darius Ishaku, has signed into law the 2021 appropriation bill which on Thursday passed third reading on the floor of the state house of assembly. The 2021 approved budget signed by the governor is over two billion Naira higher than the estimate presented to the house by the governor. Recall that Ishaku had on December 4, presented a budget estimate of N139,460,435,961 to t...

Vanguard News Kankara 344: UNICEF calls for release of other children in Captivity On By Femi Bolaji, Jalingo – Following the release of 344 students of Government Science secondary school, Kankara, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has called for the release of other children across the country still held in captivity. UNICEF Nigeria’s Representative, Peter Hawkins, in a statement issued to newsmen by the humanitarian Organization’s communications officer, Blessing Ejiofor...

Channels Television   Updated December 17, 2020 Members of the Taraba State Judicial Panel of Inquiry hold their maiden session in Jalingo on November 9, 2020.   The Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Restitution of Victims on Wednesday received a complaint of one Mrs Esther Iruoha who alleged that her husband was killed at a checkpoint by a police officer. Esther Iruoha, through her counsel Elijah Nyaro, is asking the panel to conduct a thorough investigation into the shooting of her hus...

Represented by the Federal Commissioner of NPC in charge of  Taraba State, Sani Sule Saleh, Kwarra explained that the conduct of the survey was a fulfillment of the mandate of the commission as contained in the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution. Kwarra said the exercise was in response to the imperative of providing data for national planning, particularly in the education sector, adding that without data there could not be effective planning of any sort because it inspired development. ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Ahmad Lawan, the President of the Senate, on Thursday, advised the Federal Government to deploy the Natural Resources Development Fund to support enterprises within the agriculture and solid minerals sector as a way of diversifying the nation’s economy. Lawan made the call in his concluding remark after the upper chamber considered a bill during plenary seeking to develop tea and coffee growth, production and marketing in Nigeria. This was disclosed in a statement...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again lost a member in the House of Representatives, Sam Onuigbo to the All Progressives Congress (PDP). This is the fourth member of the PDP to dump the party for the ruling APC within the week. It would be recalled that Datti Yako on Tuesday moved from PDP to the APC, while Danjuma Shittu from Taraba State dumped the All Progressives Congress Alliance for the APC. On Wednesday, Tajudeen Adefisoye moved from the Social Democra...

A member of the House of Representatives, Sam Onuigbo has joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Onuigbo, representing Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency of Abia State, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the ruling party. His defection makes it the fourth lawmaker to have defected to the ruling APC since Tuesday. In his defection letter read the speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday, Onuigbo cited division and crisis in his local government chapter of the PDP. On ...