By PETER DURU, Makurdi In what seemed a renewed crackdown on perpetrators of violent crimes in parts of the state, no fewer than 45 suspected cultists and armed men have been arrested by men of the Benue State Police Command. Also recovered from the gangs in the last few weeks were assorted fire arms, live […]
FOUR people, mostly children, were admitted in a hospital, on Thursday, when the Benue State Urban Development Board invaded and demolished structures at the new garage area of the capital city intended to be used for recreation centre. Nigerian Tribune gathered from the scene of the incident that the affected people sustained injury from teargas […]
A Lebanese working with Rock Bridge Construction Company, Mohammed Dhabre, was on Wednesday, kidnapped by unknown men on the company’s premises on the Otukpo-Igumale area of Benue State. According to an eyewitness, Dhabre was on the premises of Rock Bridge that fateful day when gunmen, numbering about 10 stormed the site around 3.00p.m in a […]
About 10 persons were reported dead in a fresh invasion of Fulani herdsmen who invaded a community in Gwer West Local Government area of Benue State. The traditional ruler of the area, Chief Daniel Abomtse, the Ter Nagi, who disclosed this to journalists in Makurdi on Monday, lamented the frequent attacks on his domain as […]
A housewife and mother of nine children has delivered a monkey-like monster in Otukpo, headquarters of Idoma nation in Benue State. The bizarre delivery took place at the weekend at St Theresa Hospital Otukpo by the woman said to be the wife of a hunter from Oju local government area of the state. The abnormal […]
THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Benue State has denied entering into a negotiation with Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to settle their dispute over the April 26, 2011, governorship election out-of-court. The governorship candidate of ACN, Prof. Steve Ugbah, who made this clarification in Makurdi while […]
BY PETER DURU MAKURDI — Adamgbe village in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State is still in sombre mood following the Saturday’s collapse of St. Roberts Catholic Church on Easter eve which claimed the lives of 22 worshippers, comprising 16 women and six children. As inhabitants of the village continued to brood over the […]
Hell was let loose on Wednesday evening as students of Benue State University, Makurdi stormed the Gboko/ Makurdi highway to protest the killing of a 400 level student who was killed by an articulated lorry. The Nigerian Tribune learnt that the security operatives drafted to the troubled area to beef up security, allegedly killed another […]
March 29, 2012 by Mudiaga Affe 35 Comments Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke says the state government will send back over 3,000 internally displaced Fulani herdsmen camping at Bagga, Besenge and Utanga communities in Obanliku Local Government Area of the state after completing arrangements with their respective state governments. Imoke, who stated this late […]
From George Okoh in Makurdi Four suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were yesterday arrested at St.Theresa Catholic Church within the High Level Area of Makurdi, Benue State. According to eyewitness, the four suspects had attempted to gain entry into the church while the second Mass was in progress at 10 a.m. when they […]
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