Benue State leaders yesterday described the New Year’s Day killings as a planned genocide. Three socio- cultural groups, Mdzough U Tiv, Idoma National Forum and Omi Ny’Igede, told reporters at a joint news conference in Abuja that the government failed to prevent the killings of about 20 people. . According to them, there was an […]
The National Council of Tiv Youths has faulted the setting up of a committee by the Presidency to meet with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria. The council claimed the committee had been designed “to dance on the tombs of the slaughtered Nigerians for no sin of theirs other than not belonging to […]
Benue killings: Gen. Gowon Faults Security Agents, Calls for investigation of Miyetti Allah Former Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon on Saturday visited Benue state Governor Samuel Ortom in Makurdi, the State capital. The Elder Statesman visited the state to commiserate with the government and people of the Benue over the killings […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said he was ‘surprised’ that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris disobeyed his directives to stay in Benue until the bloodletting between farmers and herdsmen was resolved. Mr. Buhari also said his government was deeply worried about the incessant attacks on Benue’s rural communities and vowed to end the menace […]
The umbrella body of cattle breeders in the country, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, has said the anti-open grazing law in Benue State Government, aimed at regulating cow grazing in the state, must be modified for peace to reign in the state. The Secretary-General of the association, Usman Ngelzerma, said this during an interview […]
BENUE, TARABA DEEPEN PARTNERSHIP ON SECURITY By Terna Injua Benue and Taraba States Government have resolved to forge a common front against the reported plot by Fulani pastoralists to takeover lands belonging to indigenous people of the two states. Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue and Architect Darius Ishaku of Taraba gave the assurance today in […]
Eighty people have been killed in Benue State since December 31 following clashes between cattle herders and farmers that have forced tens of thousands from their homes, an emergency official said on Tuesday. The violence between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers intensified over the New Year, fuelled by a new law banning the nomadic […]
Benue: Understanding Lalong’s intervention By Yakubu Dati The attack on some Benue Communities last week, which left 73 people dead is most unfortunate and calls for the highest level of sympathy across board irrespective of geographical, economic, social or religious divide. That the action is as result of a premidated attack meted out with the […]
BEROM AND AFIZERE UNITY DACHUNG BAGOS HAS BROKEN A RECORD! To the amazement of the crowd gathered at Sarau Center yesterday, Dachung Bagos came up with a unity fortifying idea, one of its kind in the history of Plateau State! A unity cap and muffler comprising Berom symbolic colours on one side and Afizere symbolic […]
The world was shocked at the level and expert coordination of the bloody attacks that took place in Gashish district and other communities of Barkin Ladi and Riyom LGAs, between 22 to 23 of June, 2018. The attacks led to the death of about 250 people. IDP camps to accommodate the survivors of the gruesome […]
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