Three members of a robbery gang terrorising motorists on the Okpokwu-Ogbadibo Highway have been apprehended by members of the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards, BSCVGs.

A three-member panel, in a unanimous judgment, resolved the three issues that were for determination, against the appellants.

The Benue State government has refuted claims circulating in the media that Governor Hyacinth Alia was booed and stoned by some angry youths during his visit to Vaatia College in Makurdi.

A Benue High Court sitting in Makurdi, has held that former Governor and his deputy, Mr Samuel Ortom’s and Mr Benson Abounu’s suit against the Governor and Government of Benue sought to delimit the governor’s constitutional powers.

No fewer than 28,997 persons are reported to have lost their lives to insecurity in Benue State, even as over 54,476 houses and farm produce valued at over N21 billion were also destroyed in the state.

Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joseph Utsev, has said that the Federal Government is planning to restart the dredging of two Nigeria’s major rivers – Niger and Benue.

The Benue State Government says it plans to demolish all illegal structures in Makurdi, the state capital.

Seven persons, mainly young people, were feared killed, yesterday, following continued boundary disputes between Ijiegu-Yache community of Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State and Mbaaka community of Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State.

The Benue State National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal presided over by Justice Ori Zik-Ikeorha has nullified the election of Senator Emmanuel Udende of the All Progressives Congress, APC, representing Benue North East Senatorial District in the National Assembly. 

Suspected armed bandits have reportedly killed eight persons in a supremacy fight in Chitto and Gbeji communities in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State.

Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue state, Tuesday disclosed that the state government has received N2 billion from the Federal Government as part of the N5 billion petrol subsidy removal palliative due the state.

The management of London Line Transport Company Ltd, whose business premises was recently stormed by the Benue State Assets Recovery Committee has petitioned Governor Hyacinth Alia demanding the return of the 32 carted vehicles and payment of N5billion damages.

‘After killing the people and injuring many, the armed men set fire on people’s property and fled the scene’

A group under the aegis of the Benue Coalition for Human Rights Protection, BCHRP, has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, over the gruesome murder and harvest of the organs of 28 years old footballer, Moses Babatunde in Otukpo town, Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA, of the state.

For many who witnessed the intrigues that played out last Monday during the inauguration and election of the leadership of the 10th Benue State House of Assembly, one could easily conclude that what transpired might be a pinch of the political muscle flexing that would dominate the Benue political space in the next four years.