Tag: Benue
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Over 40,000 persons displaced in Benue gunmen attack – SEMA
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said over 40,000 persons had been displaced following the recent gunmen attack in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The Executive Secretary of SEMA, Mr Emmanuel Shior told newsmen in Makurdi on Friday that the agency had opened four camps for the displaced persons…
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Your insensitivity to peoples’ plights caused killings in Benue, Rivers, others – PDP tells Buhari, APC
The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of being insensitive to the security of lives and properties in the country. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the party spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan. The party…
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Rivers, Benue Massacres: Atiku condemns killings, says Nigeria’s diversity, its strength
Former Vice President of Nigeria and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has described as unacceptable the cycle of blood-letting that has led to the loss of precious lives across the country. Atiku Abubakar made the charge against the backdrop of recent killings in Rivers, Kaduna, Benue and other parts of the…
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Senate summons Dambazau over Rivers, Benue massacres
The Chairman of the Senate committee on Interior, Andy Uba,has condemned the killings in Benue, Rivers and Kaduna states. He described the killings as sheer heartlessness and barbaric and urged the relevant security agencies to bring the criminals to book. He said the perpetrators were out to destabilise the relative peace being enjoyed across the…
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Police arrest eight in connection with Benue killings
The Benue State Police Command says it has arrested eight herdsmen in connection with the recent attacks on some communities in the state. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Moses Yamu, made the announcement in a statement signed by him, a copy of which was obtained by Channels Television on Wednesday. He said the…
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Herdsmen kill over 20, injure over 30 in Benue – Gov. Ortom
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue said herdsmen had killed over 20 persons between Monday and Tuesday in Guma and logo local government areas of the state. Ortom disclosed this while briefing journalists on Tuesday in Makurdi after the State Security Meeting. He said that out of the number, nine were Livestock Guards who were to…
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4 killed in fresh communal clash in Benue
At least four people have been killed in a fresh communal clash in Ogobia community of Ugboju district in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. On September 14, this year, a former chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State, Major Lawrence Ugbor (rtd) and five others including a retired police officer…
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Benue Assembly confirms Onum as new Chief Judge
The Benue House of Assembly on Friday confirmed the nomination of Justice Adam Onum as the new Chief Judge (CJ) of the state. The confirmation followed a letter of nomination addressed to the Speaker and read on the floor by the the Deputy Speaker, Mr James Okefe. The letter stated that following the recommendation from…
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Buhari’s bailout fund cannot clear salaries, pension arrears in Benue – Ortom
…accuses NLC of blackmail …Says we inherited N69 billion salaries, Pension arrears Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s bail out fund to states (especially in Benue) cannot clear the backlog of salaries and pension arrears the new governors inherited from past governments in their various states. Ortom noted that…
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Revoke N3.2 billion Benue road contract, senate tells FG
The Senate Committee on Works has asked the Federal Government to revoke the N3.2 billion contract for the reconstruction of Wannue-Yadev road in Benue, citing alleged incompetence by the handler. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 19-kilometre road contract, awarded in 2013, had a completion period of 24 months. Its chairman, Sen.…