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An explosion on Tuesday evening occurred in Iware village of Ardo-Kola local government council of Taraba State, killing many people. The incident, which

Governor Darius Ishaku says he has positioned about two thousand local police marshals called "Taraba Amotekuns" across the state.

SERAP earlier on Sunday called on Buhari to urgently withdraw the pardon recently granted to former governors.

The Council of State last Thursday granted state pardons to former governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame respectively, who were jailed for corruption.

Nobel laurate, Prof Wole Soyinka has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s pardon granted ex-governors of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye; and

The Council of State at its meeting presided over by Mr Buhari on Thursday granted state pardon to former governors of Taraba and Plateau....

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is still unyielding on his position on the Buhari administration patronizing corruption in Nigeria.

An explosive device went off in a bar in Nigeria's northeastern Taraba state on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring 19, police told AFP.

This recent pardon, in my humble view, is the worst way to fight corruption. It will further water, nurture and elevate corruption.

It was gathered that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off at Iware cattle market, some 35 kilometres from Jalingo, the capital city.