INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATION: COMMANDANT NSCDC TARABA COMMAND REASSURES NEW SDS OF NSCDC'S COOPERATION WITH THE DSS IN TARABA STATE.

The Commandant Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Taraba State Command Adamu Salihu has reassured the new State Director Security Services, Taraba State Command of his command's willingness to collaborate with the service in safeguarding lives and properties in the state. The Commandant made the declaration today when he received the newly posted State Director Security (SDS) Taraba State Command Mr V.O Edet fsi on a courtesy call at the NSCDC State Command Headquarters Jalingo. This is contained in a press statement signed by the Command's Spokesman SC Iliya Samaila and issued to Jalingo Times. The statement quoted the new State Director during the courtesy call saying that he was at the NSCDC State Command Headquarters to familiarise himself and his team with the command's management and workforce for effective synergy. MR Edet explained that no security agency is capable of handling all the security challenges, hence, the need for a more robust synergy among security agencies. The SDS also emphasized that the leadership of the two agencies must work on conflict resolution to ensure healthy working relationships among officers and men of the lower cadre. Responding, Commandant NSCDC Taraba State Command Adamu Salihu who was visibly elated by the visit, assured the Director of enhanced working relationship between the two agencies in ensuring peace and order in the state. Commandant Adamu thanked the SDS and his entourage for the visit and wished him success in his official endeavours.

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INSECURITY: Two suspected kidnappers nabbed in Mayo Dassa, Jalingo.

Troops of six Brigade Nigerian Army headquarters ,Jalingo have dismantled a notorious kidnapping syndicate terrorizing parts of Jalingo and Lau Local Government Areas of Taraba State. A statement by Acting Assistant Director Army Public Relations Six Brigade Nigeria Army headquarters, Jalingo, Captain Olubodunde Oni says the Brigade act on an intelligence report and two suspects, identified as Ali Idi and Haruna Umar were apprehended early this week. The statement adds that the culprits were captured during a raid at a local hotel in Mayo Dassa area of Jalingo metropolis where they were hiding. It adds that Further investigations led to the discovery that the gang's hideout was at Kona Mountain in Jalingo , where additional members of the syndicate were believed to be camped. The statement says the leader of the gang Dahiru Idi was also apprehended following an operation at kona Mountain the following day. It states that the gang leader confessed to the recent kidn...

INSECURITY:Bissaula Community Leader Raises Alarm Over Renewed Attack, Calls for Lasting Security Deployment.

By Jako Keke, November 22,2025. A community leader in Bissaula Ward of Kurmi Local Government Area, Taraba State, Alhaji Idi Ismaila, has decried a fresh wave of violence that disrupted the fragile peace recently restored to the area. He made the remarks during a press briefing where he recounted the latest attack and appealed for urgent government intervention. According to Ismaila, the Bissaula community was thrown into panic on Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at about 8:00 p.m., when unknown gunmen, suspected to be members of the Ndaka-Chamba militia, stormed the village and opened fire. Their primary target was said to be Baba Umaru Gambo, a former youth leader of the community and current Commander of the Taraba Marshal in Kurmi Local Government Area. Ismaila explained that Gambo and another resident, Kefas Hassan Bui, were seated outside when the attackers arrived. Both men fled, but the assailants allegedly pursued Gambo, shooting him multiple times and leaving him with...

Kurmi on the Brink: Why Silence Now Could Spell Disaster

By The Nigerian Newspointer Editorial Board In the quiet hills and lush forests of Kurmi Local Government Area of Taraba State, an uneasy wind is blowing. Reports of an unusual influx of Fulani and Hausa migrants fleeing violence in Northern Nigeria have unsettled the peace of this agrarian enclave. Migration in itself is not new—men and women have always moved in search of safety, trade, and survival. But what is happening in Kurmi today bears markers that Nigeria has, sadly, seen before. And if urgent steps are not taken, the consequences could be dire. A Pattern Too Familiar From Plateau to Benue, from Southern Kaduna to Zamfara, Nigeria’s troubled history is littered with stories of migration that started innocently but later spiraled into violent conflicts. Farmers and herders once lived in uneasy but manageable coexistence until land sales, unchecked settlements, and political silence turned simple disputes into ethnic conflagrations. The echoes of those past crises are now knock...

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