Benue state

Clergyman dies in fatal accident after he was offered a lift by suspected robbers.

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Friday alleged that Fulani herdsmen had concluded plans to lay ambush and kill him along the Makurdi/Laafia highway.

Four students of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue state, have lost their lives in a fatal car crash that occured within their campus. The accident happened at about 8am. According to eyewitnsses, a motorcycle carrying a…

A High Court in Makurdi, Benue state has sentenced the two surviving kidnappers who abducted and killed a Catholic priest in 2016.

''We don't need APC in Benue state'' youths stop Governor Ortom from attending APC reconciliation meeting.

The speaker of Benue state house of assembly,Terkimbi Ikyange, has been impeached. He was impeached during plenary today July 24th.

The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Benue, Mr Agbo Terkula, has resigned both his membership of the party and the position he occupied.

President, National Association of Benue State Indigenes, NABENSI, Moses Mwarga Aji, has said that any Benue indigene who votes for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general elections will be cursed.

The Middle Belt Conscience Guard’s  (MBCG) says it has uncovered sinister plots by some communities in Benue State to upscale arms build up in order to torment the peace of others and heightened the state of insecurity in the State. 

An anti corruption group, Initiative for Transparency (TI) has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the Benue state government to find out what it did with its share of all revenues accruing to the state.

No fewer than 20 houses have been razed after armed men attacked Naka, Gwer West LGA of Benue State.

Herdsmen strike in Benue again in Chembe settlement and they killed their village head, Iyongovihi Ninge

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday, told the Internally Displaced Persons, who were displaced due to Fulani herdsmen attacks,  to go back home and use stones to defend themselves.

A married Federal Road Safety officer is being accused of consistently raping a 9-year-old girl in Benue state.

The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday expressed displeasure with the mindless killings of people by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State and other parts of the country.

Protests, empty streets and distraught residents — Benue State was in no holiday mood yesterday for the President.

Twenty four persons, mostly women and children, were, on Monday, killed in a fresh crisis at Omusu Edimoga in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State.

Ali Teshaku, presently the commander of the Livestock Guards in Benue State, an outfit created by the state government with the enactment of its anti-open grazing law, was a suspected Boko Haram leader engaged to terrorize Fulani herders…

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, yesterday raised the alarm over an alleged fresh plot by a group of herdsmen under the auspices of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) to attack and kill him.

Two persons including a policeman have been killed by suspected herdsmen in the troubled Guma local government area of Benue State.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and his counterpart in Taraba, Achitect Darius Ishaku has been dragged to the International Criminal Court, ICC, over the spate of killings in the two state.

BY PHILIP AGBESE - Something epochal and unique amazed the senses of Nigerians on Monday, January 15, 2018. President Muhammadu Buhari had an exclusive audience with a Benue delegation led by the state Governor, His Excellency, Governor…

As reactions continue to trail the recent attack on Benue communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen were over 80 people were killed, a civil society group has slammed the state governor, Samuel Ortom for allegedly setting out to wipe out…

In what look like a well organised plot, some Hausa-Fulani youths blocked all major streets and staged bloody protests in Makurdi, Benue State, on Saturday.

By Michael Onoja I have lost trust and confidence in some states in Nigeria to execute a function, as basic and fundamental as securing the lives and properties of their people. Every State Chief executive in Nigeria is aware of this…