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A Malaysian-Muslim group, Yayasan Budi Ihsan, has donated 100 cows and 50 goats to 13 Internally Displaced Persons  (IDP) camps and host communities to bring succour to Muslims faithful during the Eid Adah celebration in Borno State.

The Coordinator of the Malaysia Group, Dr Mohammed Umar, stated this during the symbolic slaughtering of the cows at the Bakassi IDPs camp in Maiduguri.

“Initially,  last year, we did the same thing but the number of cows slaughtered were just nine. However,  because of the impact of the nine slaughtered, the organisation deemed fit to increase the number of the donation.

“So now we are having 100 cows and out of these 100, 80 will be slaughtered for the IDPs in the 13 camps while 20 other remaining will be slaughtered to the less privileged in their host communities.

“The 50 goats on the other hands are dedicated to orphans. So, we sample how many Widows are there with their children in the home. So we got 42 Widows while the remaining eight will be given to the less privileged. We are doing this based on the teachings of sharing as obtained in Islam “, Dr Umar added.

Speaking, the State Emergency Management Agency, Director Planning, Research and Statistics, Ali Abdullahi Musa, applauded the groups for putting smiles on the faces of less privileged.

One of the Bulama at Bakassi camp, Mallam Aji Ibrahim, thanked the Malaysian groups for their gesture and prayed that the circumstances that brought them to IDP camps would not befall them.

Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku has directed the State Civil Service commission to recruit 1825 indigenes of the state into various Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

Chairman of the Commission, John Mamman, Saturday disclosed this in a statement to newsmen.

He said the recruitment is to fill existing vacancies in the state civil service, just as he dismissed insinuations that the sales of form was to exploit applicants.

This is coming few days to the planned protest by some individuals over the sales of the recruitment forms.

According to Mamman, “for the Commission to carry out its statutory responsibilities of recruitment exercise, it is pertinent to invite interested applicants to purchase the employment forms and to also note that the form is not free of charge as being speculated by few individuals.

“I wish to remind the public that the Commission conducted same exercise in June-November 2017 of which Four Hundred (400) of the applicants were employed.

“However, the Commission will also accord some of the interviewed applicants in year 2017 priority in this recruitment exercise.

“I am also assuring the entire public that the recruitment exercise is real and regarding the price of form; in 2016/2017, it was sold for Two Thousand naira (N2000), but in 2021 the price has been reviewed to Three Thousand naira only (N3000) based on the budget provision of 2021.

“The Four Hundred and Fourty-Five Naira (N445) is the online transaction charges.

“In view of the above, I want to crave your indulgence to remain calm and law-abiding citizens and to follow the instructions regarding the online application.”

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The Taraba State government has drawn the anger of indigenes of the state over the ongoing sale of forms to applicants who seek to work in the state’s civil service.

The state government a few weeks ago lifted an embargo on employment into the state civil service through an announcement by the Office of the Head of Service of the state.

Subsequently, the state’s Civil Service Commission (CSC) directed interested indigenes to apply by obtaining an online application form at the cost of N3,500.

The commission also directed workers who want to transfer their services from local government to the state service or across ministries, departments and agencies to also obtain a transfer of service form by paying N3,000 to the state government’s account with Zenith Bank.

The government had conduced a similar employment exercise in 2017 but less than 10 per cent of the over 30,000 applicants were employed.

Premium Times gathered that mostly applicants with government connection got employed in the 2017 exercise from which the government raked in over N100 million from the sale of forms.

That experience has fueled a suspicion that the current exercise is another ploy by the government to generate revenue from people desperate for employment.

The suspicion is butressed by the fact that the state government has not been paying gratuities and pensions to retired workers while payment of salaries of civil servants is not regular.

A former chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state, Jonah Kataps, described the sale of application for employment forms as unfair.

Taraba Government, on Wednesday, announced the promotion and transfer of the state Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Mr Peter Vau from teaching to administration.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Vau’s promotion and the transfer were contained in a statement issued by Chairman, Taraba State Universal Education Board (SUBEB), Mr Yakubu Agbaizu, in Jalingo.

According to the statement, the promotion is in recognition of Vau’s dedication to service, particularly as the state NUT chairman.

“I write to convey approval for your immediate transfer/posting from teaching to admin cadre and consequently, you are hereby posted to Lau Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) for your assignment.

“Thus, the Education Secretary Lau will post you appropriately, in line with this directive.

“Similarly, I have also been directed to convey Executive’s approval for your immediate promotion to the rank of Assistant Director on GL 15, with immediate effect.

“This promotion is in recognition of your dedication to service of Taraba, particularly in your union (NUT). This gesture takes effect from July 1,” Agbaizu said.

The SUBEB chairman congratulated Vau ‘on this well-deserved promotion’ and wished him the best of luck in all his future endeavours.

Reacting to the development, Vau said that he had assumed his new office, adding, however, that he still remained the state NUT chairman.

Taraba State Civil Service Commission invites application from qualified and interested candidates for various positions into the State Civil Service. The recruitment will be undertaken to employ candidates into vacant position in Ministries, Boards and Parastatals of the State Civil Service.

Prospective candidates are required to note that priority will be given to Tarabans first, but this does not exclude non-Tarabans from the recruitment exercise.

The cost of the form is: three thousand naira (N3000) only.

Requirement: Prospective applicants for any position must possess the following qualification in relevant fields.

Armed men suspected to be herders, have launched an attack on the Kudi district of Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing three persons report Rhapsodi Affos Blog

Among the victims of the attack is the Mai-Angwan Tiv in Kundi district, Zaki Terzungwe Anjua who was dismembered by the herders.

The attack occurred on Monday, barely a few hours to the northeast governors forum which is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday in Taraba state.

The victims of the attack are those who have just returned to the community from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps following directives issued by the governor, Darius Ishaku.

Last month, Ishaku had urged all displaced persons from the Bali council to return to their communities and should be allowed access to their homes and farmlands.

The attackers were said to have taken over the village head’s farmland and killed him. This was to prevent the victim from drawing the attention of both the governor and security operatives as the governor had earlier warned persons who derive joy in confiscating IDPs' lands to desist or be visited with the long arm of the law.

An eyewitness, who is also related to the deceased village head, said the attackers in their numbers stormed their compound “and shot at our father before cutting him into pieces with cutlass alongside other two persons.”

The attack was also noticed to have occurred 48 hours after the Public Relations Officer of Miyetti Allah, Murtala Usman, told media practitioners that the crisis between the Fulani and Tiv in the Bali council had been resolved.

A senior staff member of the council said the attention of the council chairman and the security operatives had been drawn to the incident, adding that the perpetrators would soon be brought to justice.