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 […]

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong,  has tendered his unreserved apologies to the people of Benue State and Nigerians over the comments he made following the murder of over 60 people by herdsmen in two local government areas. Lalong had told newsmen that he warned Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue against passing the anti-grazing law which […]

The Benue State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of eight herders in connection with the fresh killings of some rural residents of Guma and Logo Local Government Areas in the state. Police Public Relations Officer for the command, ASP. Moses Joel Yamu, made the disclosure last night in a statement he signed and made available […]

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 […]

The furnace on the Plateau has extinguished for over two years now. The more than a decade of ethnic tensions and the herders/farmers crisis resulting in loss of lives and the destruction of properties have all vanished. Nigerians know the extent Plateau boiled. The state has gone through terrible times. It has seen the worst […]

The Berom Educational and Cultural Organisation has condemned the crisis that broke out in Rikkos, Dutse Uku, Cele Bridge and Tina Junctions, all in Jos North LGA of Plateau State on Sunday 26th May, 2019 that left some persons dead, scores injured and few houses torched. In a Press Statement signed by the National […]

BEROM EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION PRESS STATEMENT 9thNovember, 2017 ANOTHER MASSACRE OF BEROM IN RIM, RIYOM LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA A total of nine Berom people are now confirmed dead in an ambush/attack at Diyan junction of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State at about 7.30pm on Tuesday 7th November, 2017 […]