A primary school in the Kaigama ward of the Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State has been left in ruins two years after the elementary school was destructed by a windstorm, SaharaReporters has learnt. The roof of the school had fallen and the structure is dilapidated and has caved in as seen in images of the wrecked school obtained by SaharaReporters. According to a community source, the school has been in this condition for more than 24 months since it was demolished by a windstorm, and many calls to the government for prompt help have proven useless.
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Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku and his administration have been accused of looting the treasury to the tune of N39billion naira.
The Taraba Integrity and Accountability Group Jalingo (TIAGJ), petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, PRNigeria reports.
The organization claimed the accounts of the Taraba Government House, in Jalingo, and the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, are channels through which billions of naira were siphoned from 2015 to 2020.
TIAGJ alleged Ishaku’s younger sister, Mrs. Gladys Kande Mamman, a member of the Taraba State Primary Board, uses pseudo companies linked to her BVN (withheld) to launder billions for the governor via hoax contracts.
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The management of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), has debunked news making the rounds on social media that a student was found dead on its new campus.
Lamara Garba, Secretary, Information and Publication Unit of the University, in a statement said social media post alleging that a student of BUK was found dead on the campus is fake, malicious and with no substance.
“Investigation has revealed that the deceased identified as Adamu Shanono was not a student of the university.
“Security operatives have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder,” he said.
Garba said that both suspects are in no way connected to BUK Kano.
Kano: Police withdraw personnel from Bashir Tofa-led KCCI activities
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The police authority has ordered the withdrawal of police security to members of a Kano-based non-governmental association, Kano Concerned Citizens Initiative, KCCI, headed by Alhaji Bashir Tofa.
The order, which came on Monday, followed an earlier arrangement with the state’s police command to provide security to members of the group especially as they embarked on Ramadan palliative to patients in some of the public facilities in the state.
It is not yet known why the action was taken against members of the group, especially at this period of security challenges in the country.