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Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku and Governor okowa  Cross section of graduands Governor Darius Ishaku has expressed delight on the systematic realization of the founding Fathers dream for establishing the Taraba State University. The Governor who was speaking during the combined convocation of the State University at the TSU Sports Complex said education remain pivot in his administration. He commended the Council, Senate, Staff and Students for keeping faith in their academic pursuit despite the trying times. Governor Darius Ishaku charged Students to be discipline and shun acts that would truncate their education.  The Governor appealed to politicians and their supporters to be calm and play the games  according to the rules since leadership is from God. He congratulated the graduands and wished them well in all life endeavours.  Commenting, Pro Chancellor of the TSU Idris Waziri applauded Governor Darius Ishaku for inaugurating the present Council

FIMANCIAL NEWS  January 28, 2022 The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced a downward review of charges for electronic banking transactions in its revised guidelines to charges by Banks, Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) and Non-Bank Financial Institutions. A circular by Chibuzor Efobi, for the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department, stated that the review was in response to “further evolution in the financial industry in the last few years’’. The apex bank stated that the new guide included review of other bank charges to align with market developments. It stated that it also comprised inclusion of new sections on accountability /responsibility and a sanction regime  to directly address instances of excess unapproved, (arbitrary) charges. It added that the revised guidelines took effect from January 1. The CBN has the mandate to issue the guide to bank charges. The guide provides a basis for the application of charges on various products and services

The Central Bank of Nigeria has stated that individuals in need of funds don’t need to know anybody to collect loans from banks, and should desist from borrowing from loan sharks. This was disclosed by the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele at the first MPC meeting of 2022. The apex bank governor expressed his displeasure in the way loan sharks handle customers who default.According to CBN “you don’t need to know anybody, just go into the portal, fill the form, send your data. If your data is correct you would be able to access loans.” He added, “We have a large number of testimony of people accessing loan cavity without knowing anybody and they have benefited from it”.  The CBN governor cautioned the public saying, “if you go to a loan shark to borrow you would pay two or three times the amount in 90 days. When you refuse to pay they would seize your property; Bicycle or television just to collet N200,000.”     We can only continue to advise that you don’t need to go to loan sharks – CBN g

Mutum-biyu community on Sunday night were thrown into panic as explosive device believed to have been planted by bandits blew off Catholic Chapel of Saint John’s College, Mutum-Biyu in Gassol local government. Our Correspondent who is in Mutum-biyu reports that no life was lost, but the Church buildings have been destroyed by the explosion. Speaking with our correspondent on the urgly situation, the Chief of Mutum-biyu in Gassol Local Government, Kachalla Sani Suleiman Duna condemned in strong time the attack of the Catholic Chapel of Saint John’s College by bandits and called on religious leaders and community to seat up to their responsibility by reporting any suspicious movement to the appropriate authority for action. Also speaking the Parish priest  Saint John’s College reverend Father Joachim Luka said the explosion went off at about 7:20 pm, after the youths and some students holds programme in the Chapel which doubled as the school hall and had left the

Supreme court rules in favor of GTB over N2.4bn Innoson group debt. News; 06:33am January 17, 2022 The Supreme Court has reversed its earlier decision which dismissed an appeal filed by Guaranty Trust Bank against a N2.4bn judgment given in favour of Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited by the Court of Appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State.  A judgment delivered on Friday by a five-member panel led by Justice Olukayode Ariwoola unanimously held that the Supreme Court erred when, in a ruling on February 27, 2019, it erroneously dismissed the appeal marked: SC/694/2014 filed by GTB. In the lead judgment written by Justice Tijani Abubakar but read on Friday by Justice Abdu Aboki, the apex court held that it was misled by its registry, which failed to promptly bring to the notice of the panel that sat on the case on February 27, 2019 that GTB had already filed its appellant’s brief of argument. The judgment was on an application by GTB seeking the re-listing of the appeal on the grounds that it was wrongl

Former Taraba state PDP chairman, Abdulmumini Baki has died  More details later.....

Topic: Life and Times of Late Aku Uka Dr. Shekarau Angyu Kuvyo Masa - Ibi the Second Date: 14/01/2022 His Majesty Doctor Shekarau Angyu Masa - Ibi Kuvyon the Second was born on the eighteenth April, nineteen thirty seven to the Bagya Royal family of Angyu Masa - Ibi and Angyoko Buvni Awudi Kindaton during the reign of Aku Uka Abumanu Amadu the eighteenth Aku Uka. His Majesty's farther Angyu Masa - Ibi was the nineteenth Aku Uka and had reigned for five years from nineteen forty to nineteen forty five. And joined his ancestors when Prince Shekarau was just eight years old. The determined and humbled prince begun his early education at Wukari Native Authority Elementary School in nineteen fifty at the age of thirteen. The serious attention Prince Shekarau gave to studies at the elementary school yeilded good results as he was among the successful pupils to pass the entrance examination to the prestigious senior primary school at Lupoi now Ussa local government area of Taraba State ow

The coalition of hausa fulani social cultural groups in taraba state has disassociate itself from the recent endorsement of senator bwacha by an unknown group in the Taraba state. The coalition held a press conference in which it made it position known to journalist and attended by various Fulani and Hausa groups, the said the are not of the group that endorsed bwacha and urged the general public to disregard the purported endorsement.  The statement continues... THE COALITION OF HAUSA FULANI SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUPS IN TARABA STATE PRESS BRIEFING! RE: PURPORTED ENDORESEMENT OF SEN EMMANUEL BWACHA BY SOME UNIDENTIFIED, RENTED SO-CALLED HAUSA FULANI GROUPS After due consultation and deliberations by the various socio-cultural groups in the state and to have agreed to issue a communiqué to debunk such calamity Therefore; we have gathered  here today been 8th January,22, at Taraba Motel, Jalingo, to categorically clear the air and state our positions as a  genuine and true Hausa Fulani Socio