The father of two victims abducted Wednesday from a Benue Links bus en route Otukpo has cried out over ransom demands by their captors, who he said are insisting on N9 million for each of his kidnapped children.

“It has affected me 100% because before now I’ve been at home Now at least we are going home happily. Everything is going very well, My children, my wife,they are eating,” he said.

The operatives rescued 18 pregnant women and 10 children. They also arrested the operators of the facility, Okeke and Agwu.

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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for 

it today,” says Malcolm X…..

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” says Malcolm X .    The administration of Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in Kwara has undoubtedly walked in the words of Malcolm X, going by stunning reforms it has carried out to reposition the sector in the last seven years.Commissioner for […]

Retired military officers, human rights activists, lawyers and other concerned Nigerians have expressed outrage as they condemned the reintegration of repentant terrorists into  the society by the Federal Government …

The management of Benue Links Nigeria Limited has confirmed that its driver who conveyed kidnapped passengers, mostly Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, examination condidates, in an 18-seater bus from Makurdi to Otukpo has been arrested.

By Matilda Ikediobi Director of the Institute of Capital Market Studies, Nasarawa State University and President of the Capital Market Academics of Nigeria, Professor Uche Uwaleke, in this monitored interview, spoke on what Nigeria can do to correct the gaps that the World Bank identified in its Nigeria Development Update. What do you think Nigeria should […]

As momentum gathers on the decade long agitation for the creation of Anioma state, optimism is rising among proponents who see the development as both historic and inevitable. For decades, the demand has remained a recurring subject in Nigeria’s constitutional discourse, but recent legislative progress at the National Assembly has renewed hopes that the dream may finally […]

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Airline Operators of  Nigeria, AON, has warned that airlines across the country may suspend operations from April 20, 2026, over what it described as an “astronomical and unsustainable” rise in the price of Jet A1 fuel.

Armed men have reportedly abducted no fewer than 14 passengers, many of them believed to be candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, along the Makurdi–Otukpo road in Benue State.

“The HOD then advised that we should let it go and that I should be more careful when dealing with lecturers alone”

“No child of an Edo hero should be denied the opportunity to succeed. This is about responsibility, honour, and a deliberate investment in the future,” he added.