People of Benue State have staged a protest over the repeated killings of their members by armed herdsmen and bandits. The Benue State indigenes blocked the highway leading from Makurdi to Lafia in Nasarawa State with some dead bodies of their kinsmen who were killed by armed bandits an attack on a camp of displaced persons. The…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, says the Federal Government is responsible for the current security crises in the country. Governor Ortom wandered why the Federal Government failed to take a decisive action to tame killer herdsmen and bandits operating in the northern part of the country. Speaking with some church leaders at the Government House in Makurdi,…
Eleven soldiers and a captain who were murdered while on a peace-keeping assignment in Benue State have been buried. Captain Adeodun Adedayo and his soldiers were murdered by militia groups in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State. During the funeral ceremony, prayers were said by both Christian and Muslin clerics. Governor Samuel Ortom led officials of…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja. Governor Ortom’s visit comes three days after surviving an attempted assassination last Saturday at his farm, by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Before the meeting, President Buhari had ordered a thorough investigation of the attack on Governor Ortom’s convoy. After…
Condemnation continues to trail the attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State by gunmen linked to the Fulani Nationality Movement. The latest outbursts are coming from the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF. While the ACF called for the arrest of those responsible for the attack on Governor ORTOM, CAN said…
The Benue State Government has ordered the closure of all boarding schools in the state. Governor SAMUEL ORTOM gave the order in response to the abduction of the Kankara schoolboys in Katsina State. He said if hundreds of students could be abducted in Katsina, which is the home state of President BUHARI, no place was safe again.