Six days after suspected herdsmen struck in six communities in Benue State, leaving about 50 persons dead, Governor Samuel Ortom, yesterday, announced that unclaimed bodies of about 49 victims of the massacre, kept in morgues across the state, would be given mass burial.

THE Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, Friday said that communal crisis was responsible for the gruesome murder of over 30 persons in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue State.

Six herdsmen have, Friday, been arraigned before Magistrate, Isaac Ajim at the Chief Magistrate Court 1 sitting in Makurdi by the Benue State Police for their alleged involvement in the killing of 19 farmers in Akor village of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State

MINISTER of Interior, Lt General Abdulrahman Danbazzau,  has promised that the Federal and Benue State governments will  put heads together and collaborate to find lasting solution to the recurrent killings in Benue communities by suspected herdsmen.

As Nigeria joined the world in celebrating the World AIDS Day,  the country still remains second largest AIDS epidemic in the world and with shortage of testing kits and anti retroviral drugs.

NIGERIAN citizens in Hungary have petitioned the Hungarian government kicking against the proposed 54 million Euro loan deal the country intends to give the Nigerian Ministry of Water Resources, describing the loan deal as a fraud and misplaced priority.

Benue’s achieved only 28% of 2017 budget — Commissioner

Determined to quell rising agitation by secessionist groups, the Federal Government, yesterday, agreed to release N88 billion for the compensation of victims of the Nigeria/Biafra civil war, as well as for completion of demining and destruction of abandoned explosives within the South-East, South-South and North Central regions of the country.

MAKURDI—Benue State traders have been provided over N1.5  billion to boost their businesses under Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, GEEP, of the state Social Investments Program, SIP.

MAKURDI—Benue State government has release N166 million as counterpart fund to the International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain Development Programme, IFAD-VCDP, to boost activities of rice and cassava small-holders farmers.

Governor Samuel Ortom-led Benue Government on Friday suspended Dr. Boniface Ortese, the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) with immediate effect.

As part of its efforts to make sustainable living commonplace, Unilever Nigeria has complemented government’s efforts at relieving people affected by the recent flooding in Benue State.

Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) being accommodated at the International Market Camp, Makurdi on Tuesday protested alleged diversion of relief materials by camp officials.

The Federal Government will undertake the dredging of River Benue and construct drainage in Makurdi and its environs to check a repeat of the flood that recently ravaged the state.

The paramount ruler of the Tiv people, His Royal Majesty (HRM) Prof. James Ayatse, Tor Tiv V, has blamed the security challenges in Benue state on the illegally acquired weapons by politicians in the state.