ICYMI: ‘I watched in horror as they slaughtered my 10-yr-old daughter’
Not a few are still in shock and alarmed by Good Friday’s horrendous armed herdsmen murder of about 40 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, and members of their host community in a camp at the LGEA Primary School Mgban, in Nyiev Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State.
Benue killings: Army arrests herder with AK47 rifle in Guma
Despite recent claims by President Muhammadu Buhari in far away America that herdsmen in Nigeria only wield sticks and matchetes while herding the cattle, the Nigerian Army, Wednesday paraded a herdsman, one Idi Gemu with an AK47 rifle in connection with the killings in Benue state.
122 Tiv speaking indigenes of Nasarawa killed by militant herdsmen – Benue tribal leaders
The tribal leaders of Benue state, under the aegis of Mdzough U Tiv, the Idoma National Forum and the Omi Ny’Igede have disclosed that over 122 Tiv speaking indigenes of Nasarawa state were killed by suspected herdsmen who also sacked 1,000 Tiv villages in the recent attacks on southern part of the state.
Benue killings: CAN calls for the immediate resignation of President Buhari
The Christian Association of Nigerian, CAN, has called for the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his inability to tackle the ceaseless herdsmen killings and security challenges confronting the country.
Benue killings: Avoid reprisal attacks, Bishop urges Christians
The Catholic Bishop of Makurdi Diocese, Most Rev. Wilfred Anagbe, has advised Christians in Benue to remain faithful to the tenets of their religion and avoid reprisals inspite of unprovoked attacks on churches and killings.
Benue Killings: Catholic Priests weep over colleagues, worshipers’
THE National President of The Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests, Rev. Father Sylvester Onmoke has condemned in very strong terms, the uprising in the Benue valley and wanton destruction of lives and properties by alleged foreign mercenaries masquerading as Fulani herdsmen.
