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.