By Evang. Patrick Akobo Ulaka Benue State was created on the 3rd of February, 1976 when the Benue/Plateau was divided into two, Benue and Plateau State. The creation of the new State was welcomed with great joy by the dwellers of the Benue valley who pride themselves as the food basket of Nigeria. Permit me
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…a DPO and five others were killed in separate attacks in the area last week Five people have been killed in another attack on the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by assailants suspected herders. The Naka Divisional Police Officer(DPO) Mamud Abubakar, a Superintendent of Police, and five others were killed in separate
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…before the latest attack, the herders had attacked and killed two persons on February 3 No fewer than six people were killed while three soldiers were injured when suspected armed herders launched another attack on some communities in Benue State over the weekend. The incident, according to locals, occurred at a border between the Tse-Abwa
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…State Police Command said it had begun a manhunt for the abductors of the Catholic priest The Chaplain of St. Mary’s Hospital, Okpoga, in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State has been abducted by suspected gunmen. He was said to have been kidnapped along Okpoga-Ojapo Road at about 5pm on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Benue
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Suspected herders again killed three persons in a community in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. The suspected herders were said to have invaded Ngban community in Guma local government Sunday evening. Suspected herders had been attacking governor Samuel Ortom council area. Last three weeks had been horrible in some communities in the same
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Suspected hoodlums on Sunday killed the Ward Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gboko local government area of Benue State, Tersoo Ahu. The spokesperson of the state police command, Catherine Anene, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Makurdi, said preliminary investigation revealed that suspected hoodlums who were allegedly from a faction of
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The Benue State Police Command has arrested an 18-year-old girl identified as Chidinma Omah, for allegedly setting her boyfriend’s house ablaze in the Zaki Biam area of Wadata, Makurdi, the state capital. A neighbour of the boyfriend who witnessed the incident which happened on Monday, January 11, narrated that the lovebirds had been in a
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Chairman, Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State, Daniel Deajir died on Thursday night from Covid-19 related issues. He was quarantined at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Makurdi where he passed on. Deajir was sworn-in as the chairman of Buruku LGA by Governor Ortom alongside 22 others on June 23, 2020 and has served for
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No fewer than five persons that were killed in separate attacks in Katsina-Ala and Gwer West local government areas of Benue State on Sunday. In Naka, headquarters of Gwer West Local Government Area, two persons were reportedly killed in a cult war by factional groups. According to an eyewitness, who did not want to be
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Fire has razed down part of Otukpo main market in Benue state for the second time this year. It was gathered that the fire started in the morning by 8:00 a.m on Wednesday in Lagos line spread fast into another section and destroyed good worth millions of naira. The arrival of Otukpo fire service officials
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One Inspector Joseph has been arrested by the Police in Logo, Local Government Area of Benue State on Thursday for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl (name withheld). It was gathered that youths in Ayilamo community in the Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, protested to express their greviance over the alleged crime committed by
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Two police officers were killed in Ado local government area in Benue State by unknown gunmen as attacks on security agencies continued in the state. The Benue State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the killing of two of its personnel by unknown gunmen in Ado local government area of the state. The Benue State Police
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The corpse of a woman was found dumped inside a drainage channel on Calabar Street in the High-Level area of Makurdi, the Benue State capital. It was gathered that residents of the area discovered the corpse in the early hours of Sunday, October 11. Spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Catherine Anene, who confirmed
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It was a tragic weekend in Benue State after a University don, wife and three children, his colleague at the University of Mkar and another were Saturday evening crushed to death by a trailer at Gbatse Village along Ugbema-Adikpo Road in Ushongo local government area of the state. Relatedly the lifeless body of a young
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A Benue youth group, Tiv Youth Council Worldwide yesterday demanded that the Federal government revisits the probe of the circumstances that led to the killings of hundreds of Nigerians in Benue and Bayelsa states during the former president Olusegun Obasanjo administration. The group at a press conference in Abuja argued that it would be in
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