Tag: Benue State

Osinbajo: ‘Buhari’s visit to Benue, Zamfara will not bring back the dead’

Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has come out to defend the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to visit troubled spots of Benue, Zamfara and Yobe states where hundreds of…

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Miyetti Allah finally agrees to abide by Open Grazing Prohibition Law of Benue State

The Technical Sub Committee of the National Economic Council mediating in the herdsmen and farmers crisis in Benue, Nasarawa, Adamawa and Taraba states has revealed that fulanis in Benue state…

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No deployment of soldiers to Gboko – Nigerian Army

Panic and uneasy calm pervaded Benue state yesterday when a large number of army personnel were sighted moving into the state in droves. Reports had it that the troops were…

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Defend yourselves, don’t be killed like chickens; Unongo urges Benue citizens

The immediate past chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) Chief Paul Unongo has called on citizens of Benue state to rise up in the defence of their communities to…

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New attacks claims 5 lives in Benue

A new wave of attacks has again swept across Benue as two people in each of Logo and Guma LGAs were killed while the one other was hacked to death…

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Six statements President Buhari made that seeks to end Fulani/herdsmen clash in Benue

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with top leaders of Benue state at the Aso Rock villa yesterday to deliberate on ways to end the perennial clashes between herdsmen and farmers.…

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Benue killings: Buhari meets NASS leadership

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday night met with Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara over the killings allegedly masterminded by Fulani herdsmen…

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Don’t play politics with Benue massacre – VP Osinbajo warns

Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has warned Nigeria against being political with the recent killings in Benue state.   Prof. Osinbajo who spoke in Abuja yesterday said it was…

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Benue state governor cries out; ‘We have been abandoned to die’

Following last week mass murder of Benue state indigenes by suspected fulani herdsmen, the Benue state governor Samuel Ortom has cried out saying the country’s security agencies have abandoned the…

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