Samuel Ortom, the outgoing governor of Benue State, has responded to the president over the security situation in the state, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari had...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has absorbed its members of killings in Benue State, while demanding that the perpetrators should be fished...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has expressed his sadness over the killings in Benue and Zamfara states in the past two...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday condemned the “extreme violence” and killings of scores of people in Benue State within one week. No fewer than 46 people...
The House of Representatives has chosen to summon Gen. Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff, and Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, Chief of Army Staff, as a...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday condoled with the Benue State government over the recent attacks by herdsmen in the state. Gunmen had on Wednesday killed at...
A socio-cultural group in Benue State Mzough U Tiv (MUT) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of failing to live up to his promises of tackling insecurity...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria in Benue State on Thursday distanced itself from the coordinated attacks on three local government areas in the...
The former Senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani, has once again, berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his inability to curb insecurity...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Benue State, Terver Akase, has condemned the recent killings by suspected herdsmen in communities across the state. Gunmen...
The Nigerian government has been asked to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of the January 2018 mass killings and destructions in some communities in Benue State. This...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Thursday, held a meeting with stakeholders in Tiv land to find solution to the lingering hostilities in the Sankera axis....
No fewer than 11 persons have been reportedly killed while many are unaccounted for, following a Good Friday attack by unknown armed men on people returning...
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for peace, unity and understanding among Nigerians in light of killings in some parts of the country. The president also condemned...
Following incessant killings of Benue indigenes, the Governor Samuel Ortom administration has dragged the umbrella body of herdsmen in the state, Miyetti Allah Kauttal Hore and...
The leadership body of herdsmen, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Benue State chapter, on Monday said that they are peace loving and were...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked by members of the House of Representatives to order the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to direct security...
Ortom insists Benue killings due to Presidency, security agencies’ unresponsive attitude Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has insisted that failures of the Presidency and security agencies...
Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, was in a closed door meeting with members of the joint Senate committee on Police and National Security....
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has told his Plateau State counterpart, Simon Lalong, to stop interfering in Benue affairs and mind his ‘own business’. Ortom sent...
Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom says that he has now become a target and being persecuted for doing what is right. But he vowed that he...
By Reuben Abati… Jimoh Moshood, the current Police Public Relations officer in Abuja is probably the most unprofessional occupier of that office since 1999. His lack...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… “Nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019. All Fulanis in Nigeria today our eyes are open. All of us are behind Buhari....
Former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to first ensure that peace is restored in Benue and other states of...
The Presidency Friday raised concerns over media reports on the recent killings in Benue State, describing them as unfortunate. Briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential...
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has identified the anti-open grazing law passed by some states as a major cause of the ongoing clashes between...
The Senate on Wednesday, summoned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to appear before its Senate committees on Police Affairs and National Intelligence, following...
While Nigerians bicker over the cattle colony policy recently proposed by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ripples Nigeria has gathered that Government has...
Information contained in an intelligence report said to have been presented to President Muhammadu Buhari by security agencies, including the Department of State Services (DSS), has...
The European Union (EU) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently increase efforts to bring violent bloodshed by herdsmen to an end and also defend...
By Churchill Okonkwo…. Over the years, I have realized that distressing about environmental issues in Nigeria is “a lonely exercise in abstract worry.” Yet, I am...
Nigerians are calling for the boycott of beef as a way of protesting the incessant attacks and killings of people by herdsmen. The position was made...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to show empathy to the plight of Nigerians by paying a visit on the people...
The governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, on Sunday said that he had to apologise over his comment on the Benue killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen...
President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Monday, meet some leaders from Benue State over the recent killings in the state. Those expected at the meeting scheduled to...
Tiv Youths Council (TYC) of Benue State has vowed to defend their land against marauding Fulani herdsmen, warning that their silence should not be taken for...
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Saturday narrated how several petitions he made to President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, were all ignored leading to...
The Federal Government has stated that the media and public commentators have created a “poisoned atmosphere” by their coverage and analysis of the herdsmen crisis through...
Pan-Northern socio-cultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, said it had constituted a committee on how best to handle the anti-open grazing law which has been a...
By Joseph Edgar… Let no man fool himself again, we are at war. This Fulani herdsman issue is no longer an irritation on our collective bum...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, Wednesday apologised to the people of Benue State over his much-criticized controversial comment describing the killings in the...
By Wole Soyinka… It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonizingly short span of time. How often must...
Amnesty International has condemned the wave of violence in Nigeria, calling on government “to do more to end epidemic of gruesome killings of dozens of people...
The Presidency Tuesday said it was “both unfair and unkind, for anyone to keep insinuating that the President is condoning the spate of killings in Benue...
Benue State’s Governor Samuel Ortom on Tuesday favoured military option as a means to end the killings being carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen, rejecting the...
Benue State chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of being indifferent to the killings in Benue State by suspected...
By Reno Omokri… In July 2012, clashes between natives and herdsmen reached a head in Plateau state leading to tens of deaths on both sides. Then...
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has described the New Year attacks in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue State, which left more...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue over the killings of no less than 20 indigenes of the state by suspected Fulani...
Following the killings of about 50 people in Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that...