By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo At least 19 persons have died of Lassa fever at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jalingo, Taraba state, in the last two months. The state commissioner of health Gbangsheya Buma, disclosed this on Wednesday in an interview with journalists in Jalingo. He said eight out of nine suspected cases that…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo The Taraba Tiv Youth Development Forum (TTYDF) has said that the Tiv people are not settlers but part of the indigenous ethnic groups in the state. In a statement in Jalingo, President of the forum, Torkuma Moses dismissed insinuations by the Jukun Youth and Cultural Development Association (JYCDA) that the…
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has asked government appointees to explore ways of sourcing funds for investment and development of the state. The governor stated this, in Jos, at the swearing in of heads of government agencies, constituencies liason officers and special advisers. He said government officials must to put on their “thinking caps because…
President of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, (SCSN), Abdurrasheed Hadiytullah, has called for concrete steps to address the issue of endemic corruption and wasteful spending in Nigeria. Hadiytullah made the call on Tuesday in Kaduna at the annual Pre-Ramadan meeting of the SCSN. According to him, “corruption is like a cancer, which destroys…
The Kaduna state government has inaugurated a 10 member committee for the resettlement of persons displaced by bandits in some parts of Southern Kaduna. Speaking at the inauguration on Monday in Kaduna, Uba Sani, governor of the state, noted that “the Southern part of Kaduna state has faced its share of displacement of individuals and…
The National Association of Polytechnics Students (NAPS), has called for investigation alleged mismanagement of over N20 billion intervention fund for the Cement Technology Institute of Nigeria (CTIN) in the last 10 years. President of NAPS, Ridwan Munirudeen, made the call in a press conference on Saturday in Kaduna. He said over N20 billion was contributed…
