By Femi Bolaji, Jalingo Taraba state Governor, Darius Ishaku has tasked political appointees to consider themselves as public servants poised to serve the people of the state first before other aspirations. Ishaku who spoke, Tuesday at the swearing in ceremony of Secretary To the State Government, SSG, Anthony Jellason, and other political appointees, noted that […]

14people were, yesterday, feared dead after suspected militiamen attacked a community in Taraba State.

Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja CDS to submit to President Buhari The Defence headquarters panel constituted by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin to investigate the circumstances that led to the killing of three Police operatives of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT) by soldiers of 73 battalions in Taraba State on August […]

A Catholic priest with St Peters Catholic Parish, Ahmadu, in Southern Taraba zone, Rev Fr. David Tanko was on Wednesday killed by unknown gunmen.

Barely four weeks that late Reverend Fr Paul Offu, Parish Priest of St. James Greater Catholic Church, Enugu, was shot dead, bandits on Thursday attacked Reverend Father David Tanko, at Kufai Amadu in Takum, Taraba state, killing him and setting his dead body and vehicle ablaze.

The Tiv Cultural and Social Association in Taraba state has refuted accusations by Southern Taraba Youth Forum, that the Tivs in the state have closed some major roads linking Southern Taraba and other parts of the state.

Police Forensic Specialists have carried out autopsy on four Police Officers and a civilian killed by soldiers of 93 battalion on the order of an Army Captain and confidant of millionaire kidnapping kingpin, Hamisu Wadume in Taraba state on August 6, 2019.

Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku, has restated that movement of tricycles from 8pm across the state remains an offence liable for prosecution.

Some politicians have been accused playing underground roles in the clash between men of the intelligence response team of the police and some personnel of the Nigerian Army in Ibbi, Taraba State. A group known as The Taraba Truth and Justice Committee showed that there might be a political dimension to the clash. According to […]

IT wasn’t a tango in the literal sense of salsa or rhumba. No! If it were, Nigerians would not have been as shocked as they are right now. It was not friendly fire, either. Neither was it a mistake. This is cold-blooded murder. Simple! And the question is: Why? Many before now had come to the conclusion that nothing really shocks Nigerians anymore. We have seen it all – man as his bestial worst. What could be crueller than cutting open the stomach of a pregnant woman to ensure that not even the foetus survives? Or come to think of it, what could be more brutish than strapping bombs around the waist of a 10-year-old girl and detonating same with some remote mechanism from a distance? Despite all these, there was something about the deadly encounter between officers of the Nigerian army and police in Taraba State last week that many are yet to wrap their heads around

By Babatunde Olanrewaju The Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) set up a joint investigation panel to unravel circumstances leading to the death of three members of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the police, which President Buhari subsequently asked the Defence Headquarters to take over. It is noteworthy that the evidence needed […]

insecurity: Speaker, Taraba State House of Assembly, Peter Diah, has said that the security threats bedevilling the country requires an integrated approach of both citizens and security operatives to end the scourge.

ABUJA: Senator representing Taraba South in the National Assembly, Emmanuel Bwacha, has asked the federal government to set up an Independent Panel of Inquiry to probe the killing of three detectives and a civilian by soldiers on the Ibi – Jalingo highway in Taraba state, an area which falls within the senator’s constituency.

Jalingo– Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state and his Deputy, Haruna Manu, has urged Muslim Ummah in the state to uphold the virtue of tolerance as they coexist with people of other faith in the state.

No fewer than nine out of the states that would be affected if the Senate passes the National Water Resources Bill it recently urged the executive to reintroduce have vowed to resist any attempt to take over their lands under any guise.