CSO urges Benue govt. to review its Open-Grazing Prohibition Law
A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Search for Common Ground, on Monday in Abuja urged Benue Government to review its Open-Grazing law to end perceived discrimination against individuals or groups in the 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.
World AIDS Day: Over 300,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS in Benue – AHF
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.
