NBA give Taraba govt two days ultimatum to return illegal deductions

The Nigerian Bar Association Taraba state chapter has given Taraba state government two days ultimatum to return the illegally deduction of the legal officers who work in the state or boycott court activities all round Taraba state. 

Idris Abdulahi Jaro, the chairman NBA Jalingo branch disclosed this while briefing journalist at NBA state secretariat Jalingo. Jaro said the NBA has noticed with dismay that for over four months the salaries of legal officers from the state have been illegally deducted without meaningful reasons. 

He noted that the resolution, which was announced to journalist, was taken at NBA’s congress, and that if the state government did not comply within two days, the legal officers working in the state would not attend court proceeding for a whole week thereafter a stiffer action would be taken. 

Fulani herdsmen kill 13 Tivs in Taraba over land dispute

Suspected herdsmen have reportedly killed 12 people, including seven men, two women and children in Coromo, Dan- Anacha and Mutum Biyu communities in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State.

Eighteen persons were also injured while 13 houses were burnt down in the melee.

The affected communities were dominated by Tiv speaking people of Benue.

Fulani Herdsmen again Kill 6 in a Community in Taraba

Six people were yesterday killed by herdsmen at Korum, Orawua and Gidan Bature communities in Taraba state; despite the order recently given by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Inspector General of Police and the Chief of Army Staff to clamp down on armed herdsmen attacking communities across the country.

The latest attack is coming barely two weeks after herdsmen killed 19 persons in several communities in Donga and Bali local government areas of Taraba State.
 

TARABASQUARE investigations revealed that the attack was launched on the communities following the return of Tiv farmers who were displaced by the crisis that erupted across Southern Taraba to their ancestral homes on the orders of Governor Darius Ishaku.

General Insecurity: Benue, Taraba bishops seek God’s intervention

Disturbed by violent clashes between herders and farmers, Catholic bishops in Benue and Taraba State met on Sunday at the St. Edward De Confessor Catholic Parish, Kashimbilla in Takum LGA of Taraba State to pray for God’s intervention.

The prayer session was attended by the Catholic Bishop of Jalingo Diocese, the Most Rev. Dr. Charles Hammawa, Bishop of Katsina-Ala Diocese, Rev. Dr. Peter Adoboh and Bishop of Gboko Diocese, Rev. Dr. Williams Amove Avenya who is also the Secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, (CBCN).