•Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa and vigilantes The Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, has pushed forward the training of credible youths across Benue State as vigilantes working under the supervision of the military, as was done in Borno State, to defend local communities against terrorist attacks. The CD...
•Benue massacre The founder of the Women Environmental Programme who has been working at the heart of numerous violent conflicts in Benue since 2001, Dr. Priscilla Achakpa, has said that women and children are the demographic hit hardest by the recent spate of killings in the state. While speaking in an interview with Arise TV […]
•Nenadi Usman The Labour Party has condemned the mass killings in Benue State and called for an urgent deployment of security forces to vulnerable communities across Nigeria’s North Central region. Describing the attacks as “a fresh wave of senseless killings,” the party’s National Caretaker Committee, led by Senator Nenadi Usman, demanded a f...
•General Christopher Musa Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, yesterday, raised alarm over alleged insider collaboration with attackers responsible for repeated killings in Benue State. Our correspondent reports that at least 100 people were killed on Saturday in Yelewata community of Guma Local Government Area by armed inv...
The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Director of Glossalalia Nigeria Ltd and Pelenged Nigeria Ltd, Precious Williams, before Justice S. I . Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Williams was arraigned on a 14 count bordering on...
The Osun State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Tajudeen Lawal, has reported the state chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Sunday Bisi, and three others to the State Police Command and the Department of State Security Services for allegedly recruiting armed thugs to attack political functionaries in Local Government Council...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has rescheduled his official visit to Kaduna State. Instead, he will travel to Benue State on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, as part of renewed efforts to foster peace and address the persistent conflict affecting communities in the state. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, reve...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has told President Bola Tinubu and Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia to stop playing deaf to the happening in Benue State. Atiku was reacting to the deadly incidents of the past two days whereby over 200 people have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in attacks on […]
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, today ordered the deployment of an additional tactical team to end the massacre in Benue State. Egbetokun gave the order when he visited the state following the tragic incidents that had occurred in the state, resulting in the death of scores of residents, reports T...
•Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly today expressed divergent views on the advocacy for state police creation to address the growing insecurity across the country. Egbetokun reiterated his earlier position that what the Nige...

