A total of 8049 household in Taraba state are currently beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme across the six pilot local government areas of the state.

Benue, Taraba and Ekiti state governments, yesterday, reacted angrily to claims by Acting Director of Information, Defence Headquarters, Brig Gen. John Agim, that politicians were using thugs as herdsmen to cause attacks on communities across the country.

The outburst  of the Defence Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, that President Muhammadu Buhari asked states implementing the anti-open grazing law to stop forthwith, drew anger from Benue, Ekiti and Taraba states, the three states currently enforcing the law, which three vowed not to repeal the law.

A student, Miss Mercy Victor, allegedly died on Tuesday in Jalingo from injuries she sustained following a gang rape on her by hoodlums on Sunday night.

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Gudu, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced the former Governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame to 14 years imprisonment without the option of fine.

The town of Wukari was on Tuesday thrown into disarray and mourning after gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday killed a man and his wife at their residence in Wukari local government area of Taraba state while their child was spared.

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen in the early hours of Monday stormed Secret Heart Minor Seminary in Jalingo, capital of Taraba state to unleash mayhem and succeeded in shooting a priest.

The Chairman of Yorro Local Government council in Taraba state, Hon. Joseph Sonweri, has, Thursday, confirmed killing of six people in a fresh clash between herders and farmers in the local government. 

ARMED militia have warned Taraba State communities not to waste their time going to farm as they were going to come after them.

The herdsmen have  wreaked havoc in this country and imposing a ban on their activities in all the affected states will stop the killings and clashes they have caused among  the villagers, farmers and Nigerians as a whole.

Preparatory to erecting a befitting edifice to serve as the seat of government in the state, Taraba State Governor, Arc Darius Dickson Ishaku, has met with engineers and other professionals likely to be part of the aesthetic project.

Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, yesterday called on the federal government to come to the aid of his people, raising alarm that they were under threat of attack by suspected herdsmen militia. 

Parents of Yusuf Mohammed, one of the three students killed by falling trees in Cameroon have requested that his remains should be buried in Cameroon.

The Nigerian Army has said its troops of 101 Special Forces Battalion deployed in ‘Exercise Ayem Akpatuma’ on Wednesday 18 April 2018 while on patrol to Zamban village in Suntai Local Government Area of Taraba state successfully repelled an attack by armed Fulani bandits.

A total of 182 suspects were arrested in Benue, Taraba and Kaduna states during the conduct of “Exercise Ayem Akpatuma’’ by the Nigerian Army in the three states and three others.