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Say truth suppressed too long By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has vowed to protect the people of the state in line with the oat of office he swore to by telling the truth to those that are saddled with responsibility to protect Read more via Vanguard News...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of troops to six states across the restive north-central, the Nigerian Army announced Wednesday. David Ahmadu, head of training and operations at the Nigerian Army Headquarters in Abuja, said during a press briefing Wednesday afternoon that...

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has criticised Governor Nyesom Wike for donating N200m to those displaced as a result of attacks by herdsmen in Benue. The State APC Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Finebone, said it was shocking that Wike donated money to Read more via Punch...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has faulted claims that President Muhammadu Buhari is doing little to check the crimes by Fulani herdsmen due to his Fulani origin. Osinbajo mentioned this at the two-day summit on national security organised by the Senate. “It is untrue,” Osinbajo stated. Details...

Governor Ayodele Fayose Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti State, has said that the non-challant attitude of President Muhammadu Buhari has resulted in the increased killings in various parts of the country. While condemning the killing of seven Fulanis in Gboko, Benue State, the Chairman of the...

Gov insists killings preceded anti-open grazing law Herdsmen-farmers’ clash claims lives in Adamawa Abimbola Akosile in Lagos, George Okoh in Makurdi, Daji Sani in Yola Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State saturday condemned the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, for blaming the...

Display of corpses, inciting statements, causing further tension By Damilola Oyedele in Abuja The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has blamed the anti-open grazing law implemented by the Benue State Government as the genesis of the crises which claimed at least 73 lives in Logo and...

The Nigerian Presidency has strongly condemned what it calls an upsurge in the promotion of hate speech by the media especially as it relates to the farmers/herders crisis in Benue state. The condemnation was made Friday by the spokesperson of President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, … Read...

The Senate has summoned the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to explain the steps taken to prevent further killings in Benue state. Lawmakers in the upper chambers of the nation’s National Assembly took the decision after Senate President Bukola Saraki read a letter from President...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate saying the police are working to arrest those responsible for the recent killings in the state. In a letter read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, Mr. Buhari said the federal government was initiating measures to address …...

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) is not responsible for the wave of killings by herdsmen across the country, according to the Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III. The leader faulted calls for...

Following the massacre of scores of residents of Benue state by herdsmen which attracted nationwide outrage, Nigerian clerics have argued that the need to save Nigeria and put her back on the path of recovery, rehabilitation and regeneration has assumed a very grave and grievous dimension that...

The Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, led northern governors to beg Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, not to resign from the Nigeria Governors’ Forum over herdsmen killings in the state. It was the first move from governors in north since Fulani herdsmen killed 73 people … via...

Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central, on Thursday said politicians are more interested in how they will win elections in 2019 than stopping the killings being witnessed across the country. Speaking at a national conference organised in Abeokuta, Ogun State by the Freelance and...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and some serving federal ministers over their silence on the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to visit Benue State over the killings of scores of citizens in the state by suspected Fulani...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has advised Fulani herdsmen to embrace modernity and stop killing people. The former Lagos governor also said the herdsmen have no right to cling to the obsolete nomadic way of life by killing others...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) was shocked by a news report ostensibly quoting the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom as saying that the VP was warned of the savage and inhuman killings by alleged herdsmen in Logo and Guma local government areas which took place on January … via Premium...

Former President of the Senate and the Senator representing Benue South, Senator David Mark, has commended his successor, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on his timely directive to the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Security Infrastructure to cut short its recess and investigate the New Year killings in...

Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has warned that there is no safe haven for those perpetrating series of killings across the country even as he called on Nigerians leaders to accept responsibility and stop buck passing. The speaker who said this yesterday while …...

A delegation of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by its Deputy National Chairman (South), Yemi Akinwunmi, yesterday, paid a condolence visit to the government and people of Benue State over the recent killings by herdsmen, which left hundreds of households in mourning. PDP donates relief...