By Femi Bolaji I have witnessed my neighbor, (name withheld) overtime washing the anus of her children after defecating openly on a small field in the compound we both live with just water and not bothered about using soap and water to properly clean her hands afterward. Despite having a toilet in her self-contained apartment, […]

By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, Friday presented a 2021 appropriation bill of N139,460,435,961 to the state house of assembly for consideration. The budget estimate was also christened ‘budget of restoration and stabilization.’ The 2021 proposed spending is lower than the budget estimate of 2020 with over N76 billion. He pegged […]

By Femi Bolaji With the final passage of a bill seeking to establish a contributory health insurance agency in Taraba by the state house of assembly, Governor Darius Ishaku, Thursday launched the take-off of a health insurance scheme for residents of the state. The insurance scheme was designed by the Ishaku administration, to lessen the […]

… Launches two years protection, health services programme By Femi Bolaji, Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS, a Catholic humanitarian non-governmental organization has partnered Taraba state government and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, to provide a two years protection and health services for Cameroonian refugees in the state. The programme targets displaced Cameroonians that […]

By Femi Bolaji Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku has sought for the establishment of an export processing zone in the state to facilitate economic development. The governor who spoke at a meeting with the management of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority, NEPZA, Thursday, said it was obvious the nation’s economy is distressed, and this […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Taraba State University Chapter on Tuesday organised prayer sessions for God’s intervention over the prolonged nation-wide strike and other internal issues peculiar to the institution. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Christian and Muslim members of the union held separate prayer sessions at different venues to […]

***appeals for calm By Victor Ajihromanus  Taraba Interest Group, TIG,  has condemned the destruction of public assets in the state,  saying the acts do not represent what #EndSars protests stand for.  The group urged youths to desist from the ongoing destruction,  which it said has created more challenges for the Governor Darius Ishaku-led administration.    […]

By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo Taraba state police command says it has arrested 17 suspects in connection to the vandalization of warehouses in the state. Spokesman of the state police command, DSP David Misal, who disclosed this in a statement also confirmed the death of two persons as a result of the stampede. Misal explained […]

The Taraba Government has imposed an indefinite curfew in Jalingo, following the invasion of government warehouses by hoodlums on Saturday. This is contained in a statement by Alhaji Musleem Aruwa, the Senior Special Assistant to the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Haruna Manu on New Media in Jalingo. Manu expressed worry that some hoodlums invaded government warehouses […]

The Taraba Government has imposed a curfew on Jalingo, the State capital, following the invasion of government warehouses by hoodlums on Saturday. The Deputy Governor of the State, Alhaji Haruna Manu, announced the order in a state wide broadcast in Jalingo on Saturday night. Manu expressed worry that some hoodlums invaded government warehouses containing palliatives […]