Jaiyeola Andrews

North East Development Commission (NEDC), is set to build 500 affordable mass housing units in Gombe. The project was commissioned yesterday at the site on Gombe-Kano road in Gombe metropolis, by Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya. The governor appealed to NEDC and donor agencies, to take special look at the state that has turned comforting harbour to many displaced Nigerians in the Northeast.

Plans have been put in place by the Gombe State government to build a secretariat at the present Bauchi motor park. The deputy governor, Dr. Daniel Manassah Jatau, revealed this in an exclusive chat with LEADERSHIP Sunday in his Gombe office. Most of the ministries, agencies and even the deputy governor’s office are operating on rented apartment, gulping millions of naira in rents every year.

Gombe State government, yesterday paid N591 million as compensation to some victims of the crisis that rocked Billiri months ago over Mai Tangale stool. No fewer than 554 victims benefited out of which eight got N40 million during the event, held at the Mai Tangale Palace in Billiri. Billiri was thrown into turmoil, over the emergence of the new Mai in Tangale Kingdom after the demise of the 15th Mai Tangale, Abdul Buba Mashero.