A total of 182 suspects were arrested in Benue, Taraba and Kaduna states during the conduct of “Exercise Ayem Akpatuma’’ by the Nigerian Army in the three states and three others.

A village Head, Chief Iyongovihi Ninge, was Tuesday afternoon reportedly killed by suspected herdsmen who attacked Chembe settlement in Ukemberagya/Tswarev ward of Gaambe-Tiev, Logo local government area of Benue state.

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have again killed at least 36 persons in Benue and Nasarawa states

No fewer than 66 persons were on Wednesday night killed in Benue and Taraba states by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, with the attacks continuing yesterday.

Gunmen suspected to be herders killed two people on Thursday in an attack on a farming village in central Nigeria’s Benue state, police and a resident said.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has described herdsmen attacks on Benue communities as an extension of terrorism being perpetrated by Boko Haram in the North-East.

Again, suspected militant herdsmen Tuesday evening reportedly killed a 75-year-old man and 14 others in what appeared a sustained coordinated attack on communities in Logo and Ukum local government areas of Benue state.

The Police in Benue State yesterday arraigned 28 suspects at a Makurdi Magistrate court for their alleged involvement in last Saturday’s gruesome murder of 10 herders at Yelwata, a border town between Benue and Nasarawa states on the Makurdi- Lafia road.

At least five people were killed travelling on a road in central Nigeria’s Benue state, an area wracked by deadly sectarian violence between herders and farmers, officials said on Sunday.

Indications emerged yesterday that the death toll in last Thursday’s attack on communities in Agagbe, Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected herdsmen may have risen to over 30 according to the account by a resident in the area.

BY PETER DURU, MAKURDI Following the announcement of the Federal government to undertake the rehabilitation of communities destroyed by herdsmen in the country,   the President of the Tiv Youths Organization, TYO, Comrade Timothy Hembaor has urged President Muhamnadu Buhari to give directive to the military to flush out herdsmen from Benue communities to allow the […]

No fewer than twenty four persons have been allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen in different communities in Benue state, newsmen report.

As politicians prepare for the 2019 general elections, Prof. David Ker, former Vice Chancellor, Benue State University, Makurdi, and nine others have indicated interest in the Benue governorship seat.

With less that 72 hours to the end of Exercise Ayem A’ Kpatuma, or Cat Race, a military spike operation to end herdsmen incursions in Benue state, the tribal leaders of the state have described the exercise as a monumental failure.

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Rev. Dr. Tor Uja has assured Benue Journalists that the state and Nigeria must be changed.