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The Police in Taraba have said five people were killed and scores injured following an attack by gunmen on Dan-Anacha and Dinya villages in Gassol Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the... Read more via The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2JcBZVU Get...

This is Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the Federal Capital Territory High Court who found former governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame guilty for criminal breach of trust on Wednesday. Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2skV79O -- Get More Nigeria Political News

A catholic priest Cornelius Pobah has been shot in the latest Taraba Catholic Seminary Herdsmen Attack in Jalingo on Monday, May 28, 2018. The attack was said to have been perpetrated early hours of today Monday, May 28, where some students were also injured with several cars damaged. Read...

In continuation of violence across the middle-belt region, two Catholic priests were beaten, one shot in the leg when gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked a minor seminary in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Read more via Olisa.tv – https://ift.tt/2seNBgG Get More Nigeria...

The Taraba State Congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the election of the state officials of the party has been suspended, following crisis.... Read more via The Guardian Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2rXUmlR Get More Nigeria Political News

The governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim that Fulani herdsmen don’t move around with AK-47 rifles but sticks and machetes as false and misleading. DAILY POST recalls that Buhari had made this claim during his bilateral meeting with the...

A woman, Mrs. Henrietta Anthony, on Saturday, said three of her cousins were killed when a mast belonging to a telecommunications company fell on them during a rainstorm in Jalingo, Taraba State. No fewer than five people were killed, while many others sustained varying degrees of … Read...

Residents of Taraba state have accused the Nigerian army of arresting fellow indigenes to replace militia group who are attacking and killings people in the state. The residents also revealed that the army has withdrawn all of its soldiers from various checkpoints in Takum Local Government Area...

Palpable fear has gripped residents of Donga, Takum and Wukari council areas of Taraba following the recent withdrawal of military personnel from the state. A tour by The Guardian revealed that the once visible army checkpoints in the affected areas were non-existent. It was gathered that the...

The Taraba State Government on Saturday expressed shock over alleged sudden withdrawal of military contingent deployed to enforce peace and security in southern part of the state. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Gov Darius Ishaku on Media and Publicity, Mr. Bala Dan-Abu...

The casualty figure from the attack on Jandeikyula Village in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State on Wednesday by suspected Fulani militia has risen to 32. This follows the discovery of additional seven corpses by residents of the village in nearby bushes besides the initial 25...

Troops on exercise AYEM AKPATUMA have arrested two persons, Danasebe Gasama and Danjuma, a.k.a. American, in connection with the killings and uprising in Takum and Ussa Local Government Areas of Taraba State. Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Texas Chukwu, made the announcement in a statement on...

The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has given assurance that the police will do everything possible to provide the much-needed security to Nigerians. He gave the assurance on Tuesday during the inauguration of a Mobile Police Squadron in Takum, Taraba. Click here to read more

The people of Bali Local Government, Taraba State are presently counting their loss, following herdsmen attacks that resulted in the killing of a family of four. The incident, which occurred, yesterday, in Kokotye, an outskirt of Bornon Kuku of the council, … Read more via The Guardian...

Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo Some soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force in Taraba State, codenamed, Operation Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) have allegedly beaten a 27-year-old man, Yusufa Haruna, to death at Mbamga, in the Sarduana Local Government Area of the state. Read more via Punch...

Soldiers of Operation Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) have allegedly beaten a 27 years old man, Yusufa Haruna, to death at Mbamga in Sarduana local government area of the state. Father of the deceased, Mr. Haruna Kurkal, told journalists in Jalingo on Monday that trouble started when his late son had...

Taraba State Government has said it will not chicken out on implementing the open grazing prohibition and ranches establishment law recently enacted in the state. Governor Darius Ishaku, who stated this, at the weekend, said delayed implementation of the law was to ensure that people did not...

A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Garba Hamman Julde, representing Bali-Gassol federal constituency of Taraba State narrowly escaped being lynched at the weekend by his constituents at Bali, the constituency headquarters. The incident, which occurred at Central Primary School in...

Rev. Ben Ubeh, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Taraba is dead. He died today in an auto accident on the Zing-Yola Road. The Vice Chairman of CAN in the state, John Aina, confirmed the unfortunate incident. He was on his way to Yola for an official engagement. Rev...

Buhari visited Taraba after Nigerians criticised him for failing to show up at troubled states following killings carried out by Fulani herdsmen. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, March 5, 2018, visited Taraba over the clashes between farmers and herdsmen. The visit follows … Read more...