Tag: Benue
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Pandemonium as herdsmen invade Benue community, allegedly order villagers to vacate homes
There was pandemonium on Monday in Mbatoho community in Makurdi, Benue State capital as suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded the area. Mbatoho community is a council ward located on an Island in Makurdi town. Leader of the community, who identified himself as John Tehemen, led a few other residents to lodge a complaint with deputy governor,…
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Troops nab 10 herdsmen in Benue destroying farmland
Troops deployed to Yelwata under the ongoing Exercise Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) have arrested 10 herdsmen destroying farmland at Tse-Tigir and Tse-Ndugh villages of Benue. Brig.-Gen. Texas Chukwu, the Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement issued late Monday night in Abuja, said the suspects fled into the bush when they sighted the troops. “While…
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Over one million cows have invaded Benue, Ortom raises alarm
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Monday raised fresh alarm of the invasion of over a million cows in Benue State; a sign of another possible attack. The governor said this when he led the senior pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Paul Enenche, and his wife, Becky, to the cemetery of the 73…
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Three herdsmen jailed for open grazing in Benue
Three herdsmen are to spend the next one year in jail after a Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Friday found them guilty of violating the Benue State Anti-Open Grazing Law, 2017. Jailed are Iliya Garba, Hassan Abdullahi, and Lanshak Lonfalk who were all charged with criminal conspiracy and open nomadic livestock rearing and grazing. The offences…
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How we’re tackling herders/farmers clashes in Benue, Taraba, others – Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday unveiled the strategies by the Federal Government in tackling the herdsmen/ farmers clashes in Benue, Taraba and other states. According to statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity Laolu Akande, the government has been deploying mobile police forces, army and Air Force to troubled areas and…
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Benue massacre: Ortom appears before senate over herdsmen, farmers clashes
Governor Samuel Ortom is currently meeting with the Senate in the ongoing probe by the upper chamber of the National Assembly into the killings by herdsmen in Benue State. The governor is appearing before the joint Senate Committee on Police Affairs; and National Security and Intelligence, especially on his indictment by the Inspector General of…
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Herdsmen/farmers crisis: Stop meddling in our issues in Benue, Ortom warns Lalong
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has warned his counterpart in Plateau State, Governor Simon Lalong, to ‘mind his own business’ and not to interfere with the issue of Benue. Ortom said this to the representative of Lalong at the stakeholders’ meeting with the National Economic Council Technical Committee on Herdsmen/Farmers’ Crises Resolution. The stakeholders…
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Two missing police officers found ‘unhurt’ in Benue
Two Police on Sunday confirmed that two of its operative who went missing in an ambush in Benue State have been found unhurt. The officers were amongst four mobile policemen who were declared missing after a police patrol team drove into an ambush by suspected herdsmen in Logo Local Government Area on Saturday afternoon. But…
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Four policemen missing as ‘herdsmen’ ambush police team in Benue
Four police officers were declared missing following an attack on a patrol team in Logo Local Government Area on Saturday. The officers were said to be returning from a confidence-building mission in remote villages when suspected herdsmen opened fire on them in Tse Akpam village, near Azege town, Benue Police Command confirmed. “We had an…
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Herdsmen/farmers clashes: NAF to establish operational units in Taraba, Benue-Nassarawa axis
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar on Friday disclosed plans by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to establish a Forward Operational Base (FOB) in Taraba State, as part of plans to further tackle the incessant herdsmen-farmers clash in the country. The CAS, who disclosed the plans while delivering a lecture…