Police confirms four of its personnel missing after Benue herdsmen attack
The Benue state Police Command has confirmed that four if its personnel had gone missing and unaccounted for after they came under heavy attack by suspected herdsmen at Ayilamo in Logo local government area of the state.
Photos: Truckload of corpses in Benue’s herdsmen killings arrive IBB Square for funeral
Sadness and cries envelop Benue as truckloads of corpses of victims of the recent herdsmen massacre in the state arrive IBB Square, Makurdi, Benue state, for funeral rites before burial.
You must visit scenes of massacre, Benue group tells Buhari
ABUJA— Aggrieved Benue indigenes, under the auspices of Community Development Coalition, CDC, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to pay a visit to the state and personally assess the scenes of gruesome murder of the their loved ones by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Benue killings : I-G kicks against military deployment, vows to apprehend, prosecute perpetrators
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has kicked against the clamour for military deployment to Benue state to tackle the recent spate of killings in the state by herdsmen, maintaining that the Nigeria Police Force is committed to apprehending and prosecuting the herdsmen who masterminded the New Year killings in Benue.
Benue: We’ve not done enough for herdsmen – FG
As the Benue State Government, announced three days of mourning for scores of people killed and injured in various communities in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of the state by rampaging herdsmen, the Federal Government, has expressed concern that it has not done enough for the herds
When it was the case of IPOB, soldiers were sent, why will Buhari send police to Benue – Nyiam
Former army intelligence officer, Colonel Tony Nyiam, Rtd. has flayed the Federal Government’s refusal to send soldiers after the Fulani herdsmen involved in the Benue killings as an act of double standard.
Benue killings: Unmask sponsors of these cruel attacks, Jime urges FG
The Managing Director of Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority, Rt. Emmanuel Jime, has called on the Federal Government to unmask the sponsors of the recent killing of innocent people in Benue state.
Another 16 reportedly killed in Benue, 49 corpses for mass burial
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.
Benue massacre caused by communal crisis – IGP
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.
Breaking: Police arraign six herdsmen over Benue killings
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
‘FG’s failure to arrest, prosecute killer herdsmen encouraging Benue bloodbath’
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.
