Call for emergency rule condemnable, unacceptable, Akume’s kinsmen tackle Minister
By Peter Duru – Makurdi Kinsmen of the Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, also known as the Jemgbah Unity Forum, JUF, have declared as condemnable and unacceptable the content of last Monday’s media conference addressed by the Minister and Benue All Progressives Congress, APC, stakeholders in Abuja. The Minister had […]
PDP commends Supreme Court judgment on Sokoto, Bauchi, others
…Insists on reversal of Imo judgment By Dirisu Yakubu The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commended the Supreme Court for affirming the election of Governors Aminu Tambuwal, Bala Mohammed, Samuel Ortom and Ahmed Fintiri of Sokoto, Bauchi, Benue and Adamawa states respectively. In a statement signed by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan on Tuesday, the […]
New Year: Ortom charges Nigerians on peaceful coexistence
Makurdi- Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has urged Nigerians to rededicate themselves to the cause of promoting peaceful coexistence and pray for the leadership of the country under President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ortom pardons 500 prison inmates
Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday granted clemency to over 500 prison inmates including convicts who have been on death row in the last four years. The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Micheal Gusa, disclosed this shortly after the inauguration of the state’s Advisory Council on the […]
I have dismantled devils in Benue Govt. House ― Ortom
….they cannot come near him again. Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue said on Sunday in Makurdi that he had dismantled all negative tendencies often believed to deter progress in the Government House and the state. Ortom said this during a Special Thanksgiving Service organised in his honour by the Independent Print-Media Publishers Association of Nigeria […]
Ortom to FG: Close Nigerian borders against foreign herdsmen
Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has urged the Federal Government to close Nigerian borders against foreign herdsmen who were largely responsible for attacks on farmers in the country. The governor made the call on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Makurdi shortly after visiting Mrs. Grace Zeku, who was recently […]
