Six people including three members of the Benue State Volunteer Guards, were on Tuesday night, killed by gunmen suspected to be militia herdsmen who invaded the...
Ranking Nigerian Governors, a special monthly publication of Ripples Nigeria, is focused on the review, on a monthly basis, of the performance of state chief executive...
Benue State is the talking point on social media after reports that suspected herdsmen massacred no less than 34 people who were seeking refuge at a...
Five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opposing the retention of Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s national chairman met on Sunday in Enugu to devise...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has ordered Investigations into the burning of a farm in the state, which belongs to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The mango...
The Benue State government has fired back at Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, over the Presidency’s recent attacks...
In late December 2021, an apparently exasperated and frustrated Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, made a call to residents of the state to procure...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has reacted to a request by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to...
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday presented the 2022 budget proposal of N155.6 billion to the state House of Assembly. In the appropriation bill...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami, alleged last week that a serving member of the National Assembly was financing the...
Iyorchia Ayu, a former Senate President, has been adopted by a consensus of stakeholders in the North-Central Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as National...
Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has responded to the threats by the leadership of the Miyetti Allah that it will sue governors in southern Nigeria...
The Federal Government has raised the alarm over the use of what it called “deep” fake news to attack its officials. The Minister of Information and...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has sued the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, for alleged defamation. In a suit marked MHC/268/2021...
Last week saw Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wash his hands, again, off any interest in succeeding his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, come 2023. Unambiguously, his Senior...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has rejected calls by the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Sen. George Akume, to tender an unreserved apology to...
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) claims it has uncovered a sinister plot by the Federal Government to impose a state of emergency in Benue State with...
The seeming gag on press freedom hit new lows on Thursday, with the summoning of some journalists from Channels TV over alleged anti-Buhari interviews during a...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has insisted on dragging President Muhammadu Buhari before a competent court if the Federal Government goes ahead with plans...
A group, Youth Alliance, has alleged that it has uncovered plans by those it described as “enemies of Benue State” and sponsored by the opposition All...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has thrown his weight behind the resolutions reached by the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) after their meeting in Lagos...
The Senior Special Assistant on Security to Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, AIG Christopher Dega (retd.), has been killed by gunmen in Jos, the capital of...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has vowed that the planned rehabilitation of grazing reserves by the Federal Government will not work in his state....
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Tuesday addressed hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who had blocked the Benue-Nasarawa Highway in protest. The IDPs from...
The Ripples Nigeria ‘Ranking Nigerian Governors’ was birthed in the month of August, 2019 in an effort to appraise and rank the performance of Nigerian governors....
During the week, a group sneaked in to tout a list of candidates considered eminently qualified to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Standing out was...
The Nigerian populace must have thought the country could not witness any more surprising carnage with the widespread insecurity until news filtered that the Benue State...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has dismissed claims by critics that he stage-managed the attack on him by gunmen while inspecting his farm in...
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday revealed how he escaped the attempt on his life by suspected assailants. Gunmen had on Saturday opened fire...
Governors of the 19 states in Northern Nigeria under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum, have waded into the faceoff between Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed,...
The war of words between Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and his Benue counterpart, Samuel Ortom, will not go away in a hurry as Mohammed...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has waded into the war of words between two of its governors, Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Bala Mohammed of...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has accused his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, of being one of the ‘terrorist terrorising Nigeria’ following his recent...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has tested positive for COVID-19 after recent test results of most of his close aides returned positive in the...
The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has remained in isolation despite testing negative for COVID-19. The governor, according to a statement issued by his Chief Press...
The Benue State government has declared Tuesday as a work-free day in honour of a former Military Administrator of the state, Col. Aminu Isa Kontagora (retd)....
The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, on Monday, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain the ban on rice importation in the country. The governor made...
The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has called for the continuation of #EndSARS protest currently sweeping many states of the federation. The governor said that...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to heed calls for urgent restructuring of the country to save it from total collapse....
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has lost two of his aides within five days. The Special Adviser on Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said on Wednesday he was shocked by the killing of the state’s most wanted criminal, Terwase Akwaza, aka Gana, by soldiers....
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said on Monday the Federal Government’s decision to re-adjust the macroeconomic projections and assumptions in the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has again called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to upgrade the existing policy on gun licencing, following the...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Monday signed the revised 2020 state budget of N108.82 billion into law. Ortom, who signed the revised budget at the...
Gunmen on Friday abducted the Founder and Managing Director, Tito group of companies, Chief Isaac Akinkunmi. Akinkunmi was abducted in Makurdi, the state capital. Meanwhile, the...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has embarked on self-isolation after members of his family, officials in his government and aides tested positive for COVID-19. The governor,...
Eunice Ortom, the wife of Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom along with their son have tested positive for the dreaded COVID-19 disease. The Benue State First...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Saturday ordered an immediate reversal of the order reopening churches, mosques and markets in the state till further notice. The...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has suspended five traditional rulers in the state over alleged complicity in land disputes in their domains. Those suspended were two...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said Saturday he had no regrets revealing the identity of the state’s COVID-19 index case, Mrs. Susan Okpe. The governor, who...