No fewer than 21 persons were feared dead Sunday after a canoe they were traveling in capsized in River Benue. Vanguard gathered that the ill fated locally made boat was conveying mainly members of the ECAN Church Ijaha in Makurdi Local Government Area to a meeting across the river when it sank at Kwaghtan Sule in Guma LGA

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has confirmed that his wife, Dr. Mrs. Eunice Ortom and Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Prof. Anthony Ijohor tested positive for COVID-19. The Governor in a press briefing Saturday urged people he had contact with in the last 2 weeks to self-isolate. He also confirmed his Chief of […]

By Peter Duru Wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs Eunice Ortom, her son and some of her staff have tested positive for COVID-19. Mrs Ortom who made this known in a statement she personally signed and issued late Friday night in Makurdi said she had gone on self-isolation with her son and all her […]

….Police debunk conflicting claims of deaths …l have asked that the perpetrators be fished out – Royal father By Peter Duru – Makurdi Five communities in Oju Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state have been reportedly sacked by armed youths from neighbouring Gboda community in Konshisha LGA in a renewed communal crisis between the […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Nine teenage movie artists where at weekend killed in a ghastly motor accident along the Katsina/Ala-Ikyowe road in Katsina/Ala Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the teenage artists involve in the accident were said to be the crew members of a movie production outfit in […]

The traditional ruler and District Head of Ankpa/Wadata in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State, Chief Samuel Iortim Asema has lauded the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF for supporting the advocacy exposing his subjects to the dangers of gender based violence, the COVID-19 pandemic and also encouraging birth registration among his people.

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State ethnic leaders have urged the Federal Government to call the leaders of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore to order following the recent statement by its National President, Alhaji Bello Bodejo who allegedly said herdsmen would not require permission to settle anywhere in the country to carry out their businesses. […]

The Police Command in Benue on Friday said that it had killed seven suspected armed robbers along Lafia-Makurdi road. The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Catherine Anene, stated this in a statement in Makurdi. Anene said that a team of police officers trailed the robbers following a tip-off after they had killed a Police […]

By Peter Duru Makurdi – The 12-year-old girl who was last week allegedly raped by a 42-year-old Eddy Ojah at Otada community in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue state has disclosed that she placed a curse of God’s judgement on her rapist who is currently on the run. Narrating her ordeal from her hospital […]

ELEVEN persons were feared dead, over seven others declared missing while scores sustained serious injuries in three separate bloody clashes between Benue farmers and herders and a bloody communal clash between Benue and Cross River State communities.