Benue

By Bukola Olasanmi  Suspected gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest, Reverend Father David Echioda, in Otukpo area of Benue State. The priest of Otukpo Catholic Diocese was kidnapped along Alla-Akpa Road while returning from Sunday…
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By Bukola Olasanmi A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, presided over by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon, on Monday declared the federal government policy, plan or proclamation to establish RUGA Settlement and cattle colonies in Benue…
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By Bukola Olasanmi A strange sickness is said to be ravaging Oye Obi in the Obi Local Government Area of Benue State. Already, it has killed four people in quick succession. According to ‘Save our Souls’ letter by a  group called,…
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By Bukola Olasanmi The Supreme Court has scheduled judgment for later today in the appeal in relation to the dispute over the last governorship election in Benue State. Emmanuel Jime, who was the candidate of the All…
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By Bukola Olasanmi Unknown gunmen, on Sunday, abducted a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benue State, Ben Akile. The abductors, who have opened contact with the wife of the chieftain, were said to have demanded N50m ransom.…
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By Bukola Olasanmi Igbo communities in various parts of Benue State, especially Gboko has alleged that the Igbo were being targeted for kidnapping and murder by native gangs and bandits. Addressing journalists at a press conference…
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By Bukola Olasanmi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue says the State Government is owing over N22 billion as gratuities of the state’s workers. Ortom stated this on Monday during the inauguration of the Chairman and members of the State…
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By Bukola Olasanmi A married man with children identified as Kula Adasu, has committed suicide in the Tse Agabaragba area of the Konsisha Local Government Area in Benue State. Adasu's body was found dangling from a tree…
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By Bukola Olasanmi Benue state All Progressive Congress (APC)  aspirants in the last elections have resolved to reposition the parity for better performance ahead of 2023. Their leader Bem Idyar Garba made this known  after their…
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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has been warned against shifting attention from his failed government by casting aspersions on the person President Muhammdu Buhari. Benue Peace and Development Crusade, a civil society…
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Security operatives have blocked all major streets within Makurdi township as part of measures to enforce the restriction of movement order within the period of the supplementary elections in the state. A correspondent of the…
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By Toby Prince A former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akunme, has forecasted defeated for incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Samuel Ortom. Mr Ortom faces an uphill battle returning as All…
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By Bukola Olasanmi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has distributed sensitive materials across the 23 local government areas of Benue in readiness for Saturday’s supplementary polls. Mr Terkaa Andyarigeria, the…
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All Progressives Congress House of Representatives candidate for Makurdi-Guma constituency, Conrad Terhile Utaan, has alleged an attempt on his life by the ADC to Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Mr. Julius Nyipila. Utaan and Ortom…
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By Terna Doki We listened with utter amusement  as Benue state  Governor Samuel  Ortom on Wednesday took to a Live Phone-in  Radio programme  on Harvest FM Makurdi  to display his leadership incompetence. For listeners, it…
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By Toby Prince Following the recent protest by angry pensioners in Makurdi, Benue State, the Jime/Ode Campaign Organization (JOCO) has called out Governor Samuel Ortom over his neglect for senior citizens. In a statement released and…
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By Eugene Aliegba Benue state, is  undoubtedly endowed with both human and mineral resources in abundance. As a predominantly agrarian state, it ought to have been practicing all season farming with the benefit of being crisscrossed by…
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Pensioners of the Benue state government, today, took over streets of Makurdi, the Benue state capital, protesting the non-payment of their pension arrears ranging to 17 and 74 months, for state pensioners and Local Government pensioners…
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Toby Prince with Agency News The management of the News Agency of Nigeria  (NAN) has sacked the agency’s correspondent in Makurdi over a fake report aimed at promoting Governor Samuel Ortom. The incumbent now of the Peoples Democratic…
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Benue state Governor and Governorship candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Samuel Ortom is facing rejection by different groups, even as he is being booed in some instances during his campaign tour. The latest was the…
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By Toby Prince Benue State Police has busted operatives of a firearms manufacturing hideout in Yelwata, a community in Guma local government area of the state. Two men Donatus Ahongh and Boyi Ayaayua were arrested with their manufacturing…
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By Bukola Olasanmi Fulani socio-cultural association, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore (MAKH), has asked the Federal Government and traditional rulers to prevail on the Benue State Government to halt, forthwith, the harassment, intimidation…
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By Kula Tersoo Benue state gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for 2019 general elections, Mr. Emmanuel Jime has said that as the first Benue man that addressed the Fulani herdsmen invasion of Tiv land on the…
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By Bukola Olasanmi A State High Court sitting in Makurdi on Monday vacated the interim order which restrained the Speaker, Titus Uba; and 21 other members from sitting at the Assembly complex. The Chief Judge of the state, Justice…
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By Gabriel Ikese Governor Samuel Ortom is a perfect description of an ‘accidental’ governor. Perhaps the diminutive El-rufai had the likes of Ortom in mind when he coined the phrase “Accidental Civil Servant” as title to one of his…
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By Lawrence Audu As a follow-up to the bilateral meeting between the officials of Benue and Ebonyi State governments in Abakaliki on Wednesday, 24th October 2018 over the outbreak of hostilities in the Agila/Ngbo axis of their…
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By Lawrence Audu The Acting Governor of Benue State, Engineer Benson Abounu had urged the police and judiciary to ensure that justice is done over the death of 13-year-old Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbaje, who died after being reportedly…
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By  Lawrence Audu Benue State Acting Governor and chairman, Benue State Boundary Committee, Engr Benson Abounu, has called on the warring Agila and Ngbo communities of Benue and Ebonyi states to halt further hostilities and killings just…
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