Tragedy struck at Mbiya village in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State when assailants suspected to be herdsmen attacked and killed four members of a...
A Lagos based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has instituted a case against the Federal Government before the Federal High Court in Abuja for failing...
Two separate attacks on Baking Kofi, Kaninkon Chiefdom in the Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State by assailants suspected to be herdsmen has left no...
Former Information Minister, Labaran Maku, has expressed fears that Nigeria would divide should the Federal Government allow the issues of wanton killings by Fulani herdsmen destabilise...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Tuesday backed a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, on his call for Nigerians to defend themselves against killer herdsmen. Ortom...
The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has called on the federal government to prosecute a former minister of defence, Theophilus Danjuma, for calling on Nigerians...
No less than five persons have been feared dead following an outbreak of fresh attack by assailants suspected to be Fulani herdsmen at two different locations...
Sounds of cries, sorrows and agonies again saturated the air in Branch Umenger in Guma Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State on Thursday, as suspected...
The Department of State Services (DSS) disclosed Sunday that some notorious arms dealers operating in states across north central Nigeria have been arrested. A nationwide strategic...
The Nigerian Army Sunday announced the arrest, by soldiers from its 707 Special Forces Brigade, of six herdsmen, whom it said were caught in the act...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the UN Security Council to “treat the atrocities by herdsmen in Nigeria as terrorist acts. The group...
Middle Belt and civil rights groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, over the unabated killings by...
Three communities in Kogi State namely Oganienugwu, Ikende and Dekina Local Government Area in Kogi State have reportedly been attacked by suspected herdsmen. The attack according...
Rather than stem the tide of killings, the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari seems to have sparked more killings. Few days after the president left Plateau...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Monday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s shocking statement in Benue State that he was not aware that Inspector General...
Benue State is planning another mass burial for victims of suspected herdsmen attacks. In January, the state buried 73 persons who were allegedly killed by herdsmen...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has attempted to put up a defence for President Muhammadu Buhari on his much-criticised decision to snub Nigerians in crisis-hit areas, while...
Five people have been confirmed dead and several others injured in fresh attacks on communities in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State, according to police....
Cows Saturday invaded the runway of Akure airport, thereby preventing an Air Peace flight said to have departed Lagos around 11:20 am, from landing for about ten minutes....
FOLLOWING the invasion of Akure South council secretariat in Ondo State by 30 herdsmen, workers yesterday failed to report for duty vowing not to resume till...
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....
WORRIED by the terror being unleashed on innocent Nigerians, Southern women have vowed to boycott the 2019 presidential election should President Muhammadu Buhari fail to take...
Twelve Fulani herdsmen are alleged to have been killed and fourteen others declared missing in Oyo State after an attack by suspected local farmers at Okere...
Workers on Monday deserted the Akure South Local Government secretariat in Ondo State after rampaging herdsmen stormed the place and sacked everybody within the premises. The...
Two officers of the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps have been found dead in Benue State following a gun battle with armed attackers suspected to be herdsmen,...
The Benue State Police Command has disclosed that the body of one of its remaining missing officers has been recovered with the eyes, ears and nose...
The police in Benue came under attack from herdsmen and are searching for four officers who were part of the targeted patrol team in Logo Local...
Similarly, about seven people have also been killed in the two local government areas of Kaduna State by herdsmen. According to Senator Shehu Sani, who represents...
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have reportedly intercepted a man transporting firearms to Benue state. Oko Micheal, deputy commander of Jigawa state...
Suspected Fulani herdsmen, have reportedly sacked 25 communities in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. According to some leaders of the affected communities who spoke...
A group of Fulani herdsmen who were all travelling in a Volkswagen vehicle marked Kaduna MKA 555YJ on the Igarra- Okpe Road have been arrested by...
Tragedy struck at the Huke village, Miango District in the Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State during an attack by Fulani herdsmen which witnessed the...
A couple, who retired from the Ondo State Civil Service and went into agriculture, Mr and Mrs Igbekele Olukolade, are counting their losses after an attack...
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has condemned the recent attack on Chief Olu Falae’ s farm by suspected herdsmen. In a Statement issued by the publicity...
Elder statesman and erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae, has expressed disappointment in President Muhammadu Buhari over his perceived silence...
No state in the southern Nigeria has volunteered to provide land to the Federal Government to set up cattle colonies in order to address the incessant...
An attack by suspected herdsmen at Onicha-Olona community, Delta State has left one person killed while a middle-aged woman was raped in a different attack at...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, furious over the recent killing of a Tiv woman in the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, has warned the Serikin Fulani,...
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...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to establish a trust fund for victims of attacks by herdsmen, saying that such will...
In Benue, a state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, as the governor battles conflicts thrown up by clashes between farmers and herdsmen, he is equally building million-dollar...
Over 5000 school pupils have been displaced by herdsmen’s invasion in Nasarawa. The crisis already resulted in the displacement of some 20,000 other people mainly from...
Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) on Sunday said that his government will confront herdsmen in the area with everything within its powers should peaceful engagements...
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...
Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith World Outreach aka Winners Chapel, on Sunday warned of a looming crisis in some parts of the country, that may...
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 Louis Odion… As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate’s distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy...
The Benue State government under Governor Samuel Ortom says it has not recruited, nor armed any militia group to help tackle the menace of herdsmen in...
An assault by suspected herdsmen in Benue State which occurred after two days of attack has left a final year student identified as Peter Aboh dead....
Tragedy struck southern Kaduna in the early hours of Monday as gunmen suspected to be herdsmen killed Gambo Makama, the Etum Numana, and his pregnant wife....
