Joy Oga, a pregnant woman in her second trimester, was harvesting yams on her farm in Kwanta/Dooshima area when armed men attacked. The 31-year-old farmer had gone out with three others from her community on June 16 to harvest the farm she had been unable to reach since her village was invaded in September 2025. […]
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Fifty-five-year-old Tabitha Iorchon used to work as a nanny at a rural primary school in her community, Demevaa, in Chanchanji District of Takum Local Government Area, in Taraba State, northeastern Nigeria. The job provided her with a steady income which she used to support her children and grandchildren who lived with her. She supplemented her […]
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A surge in armed violence has uprooted hundreds of locals from their homes in the Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State in northeastern Nigeria. Terrorists raided the Chanchanji District in the LGA on Sunday, Feb. 8, disrupting church services and opening fire on worshippers. Residents told HumAngle that at least 14 churches were attacked […]
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The Namnai River has become a graveyard. Where an old bridge once carried farmers, traders, and travellers across with ease, fragile boats now wobble under desperate crowds. Each crossing is a risk, and for three members of Badaru Badawi’s family, that risk ended in death. That evening on July 25, Bara’atu Bala, Yusuf Badawi, a […]
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Dozens of cows mooed as Saad Jalo herded them over lush elephant grass, their tongues feasting greedily to fill their bellies. The herder supervised their movements to avoid encroachment on cultivated lands. Seeing that the cattle were unsatisfied, he guided them to another green pasture where they fed on guinea grass. Jalo sat under a […]
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An Army base in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba in northeastern Nigeria has been sealed off by the military after an explosion hit the base on Tuesday night, May 10. The explosion which occurred around the exterior axis of the Army’s 6th Brigade in Jalingo was said to have caused no casualties or destruction to […]
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At least nine people were wounded when an explosion occurred in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State in Northeast Nigeria, on Friday, April 22. The incident, which occurred on Friday evening in the Nukkai area, was said to have taken place at the entrance of the district head’s house, where a local bar was located. […]
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The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that killed several people at a bar in Taraba in Northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, April 19. An explosive device was reported to have set off an explosion in a bar in Iware Community in Ardo Kola Local Government Area (LGA) of […]
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A report by Beacon Consulting, a security risk management and intelligence company has disclosed that a total of 1,031 persons were reported killed, 390 others were abducted in 205 incidents recorded in 34 states across Nigeria in June 2021. The report also revealed that Zamfara, Kebbi, and Niger states topped the chart as a total […]
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Less than two months after the Nigeria Defence Headquarters revealed that its troops raided a suspected Tiv militia camp in 2020, Salome Solomon from Tsokondi, Taraba State, said in an interview that gunmen alleged to be Tiv militia killed her three children on their farm. The April 23, 2020 release by the Defence Headquarters revealed […]
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The Jukuns, who live on the upper Benue River in North-central Nigeria, are believed to be descendants of the Kororofa, one of the most influential Sudanic kingdoms during the late European Middle Ages. They speak the language of the Benue-Congo group of the Niger-Congo family. Presently, they are known to have more dominance in Taraba […]
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Armed men suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Taraba State Chapter, Peter Jediel. According to Channels Television, a family member confirmed the incident. Jediel was abducted in his house in Sunkani, Ardo Kola Local Government Area at about 12 a.m. on Sunday. The family member said the abductors […]
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