Confessional statements: Benue CJ decries torture of suspects by Police
Chief Judge of Benue State, Justice Adam Onum, has decried and condemned the practice of torturing suspects by the Police to obtain confessional statements, saying the practice is unacceptable before the law.
Fresh massacre in Benue, Zamfara: 61 killed, 82 houses razed
In what is becoming a weekly sordid ritual, 61 persons were, over the weekend, killed in separate dastardly incidents in Benue and Zamfara States.
Another 31 killed in Benue
It was bloody weekend in Benue state following the reported murder of about 31 persons in six communities of Guma local government area by suspected herdsmen who also razed over close 82 houses in the affected areas and a bloody slash of rival political and cult groups in Otukpo local government are of the state.
Arsonists kill soldier, burn down community in Benue
Following the barbaric killing of a soldier of 707 Special Force Brigade Makurdi on Internal Security at Naka community in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State on the 18th of April, 2018, and the subsequent arrest of some suspects, it was gathered that at about 1600 hours on Thursday the 19th April 2018, some unidentified hoodlums attacked and burnt some houses at the community.
Benue Initiative reacts to attack on Nigerian Army
A group, the Benue Proactive Initiative, BPI, has revealed that the attack on personnel of the Nigerian Army which led to the death of a soldier in Naka, Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue state was the handiwork of miscreants whose past time is getting high on cheap drugs.
Gunmen abduct Benue Speaker’s father
Mr. Jethro Ikyange, the octogenarian adopted father of the Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, was abducted by gunmen in the early hours of yesterday.
