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Fire in the early hours of Saturday destroyed yam tubers worth N200 million at Wukari Yam Market in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. The |
Yam sellers at the famous Wukari Yam Market in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba on Saturday counted losses, following a fire outbreak that destroyed over N200 million worth of yam tubers.
The bustling market is located along Wukari-Zaki-Biam Road and is open every day of the week during the yam season. When it started, it held only once a week.
In the beginning, the market only attracted yam farmers and buyers from within the old Gongola State. Soon, others came from other states of the country and within a short time, the market experienced rapid growth. This growth is very much connected to the massive yam production in Wukari and environs.
In 1987, the former chairman of Wukari Local Government Council, Alhaji Danladi Shehu, relocated the market to its present site.
A pickup truck loaded with yam from villages around Wukari bring the tubers into the market.
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Taraba Yam Market comes alive as Tiv/Jukun crisis ebbs
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By Femi Bolaji
JALINGO FOR over one year, the Wukari Yam Market has been left desolate. The ever-bubbling market became a shadow of itself on account of the feud which pitched the Tiv against the Jukun in Taraba South spreading to its domain.
Wukari Town, in the Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State where the Yam Market is situated, was one of the flashpoints of the ethnic feud that lasted over a year.
Lives and properties were lost to the bloody conflict, sending jitters to both buyers and sellers who used to flood the multi-million-naira Yam market that was once the pride of not only Taraba but the entire country.