•Alia Benue State Governor Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, has announced the launch of a state-owned security outfit consisting of 10,000 youths before the end of May 2024. The outfit will complement existing security agencies in tackling the state’s security challenges, reports Daily Sun. Governor Alia made the announcement during an All Progressives C...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen militia, have reportedly killed three young men in two commuties in Adoka, Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state. The Caretaker Chairman of Otukpo LGA, Alfred Omakwu disclosed this while speaking to newsmen on phone today. Omakwu who noted that his people have not known...
For the second time in one month, anti-riot Police operatives have taken over Comrade Austin Agade-led All Progressive Congress (APC) Secretariat in Makurdi, Benue State capital . There are two APC secretariats in Makurdi. One is controlled by Agada while Benjamin Omakolo takes charge of the other, reports The Nation. The Agada-led APC State W...
•Mrs Abigail Orbunde and Ms Patience Ogute The wife of former Chief of Staff to Benue Governor Hon. Terwase Orbunde and a domestic aide abducted by gunmen in Makurdi last Friday evening have regained freedom. Mrs Abigail Kashimana Orbunde and Ms Patience Ogute, regained freedom yesterday afternoon after payment of an undisclosed ransom to abdu...
•Armed Fulani herdsman Suspected Fulani herdsmen have abducted the wife and house help of former Chief of Staff to Benue Governor Terwase Orbunde. Hon.Orbunde was Chief of Staff to former Governor Samuel Ortom, reports The Nation. He later resigned to contest the PDP governorship primary. He later joined the All Progressive Congress (APC) but ...
•Bandits Bandits have killed two farmers in a fresh attack on the Umogidi community in the Entekpa Council ward of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. Two other community members were injured and another was abducted by the bandits in the renewed attack, said to be aimed at displacing the people from their ancestral […]
•Lassa fever Benue State has recorded an increase in the mortality rate of Lassa fever, as no fewer than 63 people have lost their lives. In a similar vein, the state is ranked the highest in tuberculosis within the North Central Zone and sixth across the country, reports Nigerian Tribune. The State Commissioner for Health […]
•INEC election The Benue State Independent Electoral Commission has fixed local government elections in the state for July 6, 2024. The commission’s chairman, John Chen, stated this today when he met with stakeholders where he unveiled the election timetable in Makurdi, the state capital, reports The PUNCH. He assured all that the commission w...
•Suswam Eight years after he was first arraigned for allegedly diverting about N3.1 billion belonging to Benue State, former Governor Gabriel Suswam yesterday faced a fresh trial before another judge of a Federal High Court in Abuja. Suswam was re-arraigned along with his eratwhile Commissioner of Finance, Omadachi Okolobia, before Justice Pet...
•Gunmen Once again, tragedy has struck Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State, with reports indicating that at least 16 individuals have lost their lives. Suspected bandits, armed and dangerous, launched a brutal assault on several communities within the local government area last night, instilling fear and chaos, reports Nigerian Trib...
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