Some residents of Makurdi have expressed worry over the increasing prices of staple food items in the markets. The residents, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, said that the prices of food items were becoming unbearable. Mrs Mulumum Terungwa, a housewife said that the current prices of food items, if […]

By Peter Duru ONE of the direct link roads to Makurdi the Benue State capital from the South East, the 55 kilometre Makurdi- Aliade road has been abandoned largely due to the harrowing experience of commuters and motorists who daily ply the road. It is in bad shape and nothing has been done to salvage […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have launched fresh raids in Nasarawa, Benue and Ondo states where no fewer than 43 dealers and consumers of illicit substances were arrested and 137.55 kilograms of assorted drugs recovered during the ‘offensive action’

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state yesterday said the state is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in recent time with over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, arising from ceaseless attacks on communities in the state by armed herdsmen.

The remains of a female officer of Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Josephine Onche, who went missing in 2019 have been found in a shallow grave in Obi Local Government Area, LGA, of the State.