•Armed Fulani herdsmen Suspected armed Fulani herdsmen yesterday invaded two communities in Gwer West and Apa Local Government Areas of Benue State killing no fewer than 43 people. The attack came barely a week after some communities in Gwer West LGA were attacked. A mobile police officer and 41 people were killed, reports The PUNCH. […...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Following the recent wanton attacks and killings in the southern Senatorial District of Benue State by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen, the Idoma Area Traditional Council, IATC, has ordered herders to vacate all farms in the zone to enable farmers to commence cultivation of crops. The directive followed a similar one by ...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Despite the deployment of massive security personnel, suspected Fulani herdsmen yesterday afternoon attacked two communities in Benue State killing nine farmers. The attacks and killings took place in Ayilamo ,Tombo ward in Logo Local Government Area and Jato Acka, in Kwande Local Government Area, reports The Nation. The...
•The protesting lawyers Lawyers, numbering about 1,000 who gathered nationwide, under the Save Benue and Zamfara Coalition, yesterday, petitioned the National Assembly to take over the functions of Benue and Zamfara State Houses of Assembly. The coalition, during a peaceful protest, at the National Assembly complex, argued that the two Houses ...
•House of Representatives The Benue and Zamfara State Houses of Assembly have rejected the summons issued on them by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, describing it as unconstitutional and an overreach of federal legislative powers. The House of Representatives committee had last Friday summoned the Governors of Benue...
Like the Sword of Damocles, the mighty hand of emergency rule is now hanging on Benue and Zamfara states as the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the governors of Benue and Zamfara states alongside the leadership of their Houses of Assembly to appear before the House on Thursday, May 8 to […]
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Benue Non Governmental Network (BENGONET) has registered its dismay over the suffering and neglect of the over 150,000 persons that were displaced by armed Fulani herdsmen attacks from five council wards in Kwande Local Government Area (LGA), that were living under harsh conditions. The group observed that worse still th...
•Gunmen Gunmen have reportedly abducted no fewer than 14 passengers along the Makurdi/Naka/Adoka road area of Benue State. The incident happened between 10 and 11am today, about three kilometres from Naka, the headquarters of the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, reports The PUNCH. According to a commercial driver who did not wan...
•Akinyemi and Tinubu A traditional ruler in Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to take urgent action to end incessant killings of innocent Nigerians in Plateau, Benue and some other parts of the country. Oba Akinyemi who is the Eselu of Iselu in Yewa North Local Government Area of […]
•Tinubu, Egbetokun, Mutfwang and Alia As over two billion professing Christians celebrate the symbolic resurrection of Jesus Christ over 2000 years after which signified his victory over death, it’s a measured Easter Sunday for millions of Nigerian faithful as a gale of grisly killings pockmark Plateau and Benue states, both in the Middle Belt...

