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Benue, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Despite the dust being raised by the opposition over the certificate of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, his classmate, who is the speaker of the state assembly, Honourable David Iorhemba, said that the issue of certificate would soon be a thing of the past, as the governor would soon show his certificate. The governor’s […]
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Benue, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, on Wednesday, sacked the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Honourable Terhemwen Tarzohor. The court also ordered that the certificate of return issued to the former speaker who represented Makurdi North state constituency be nullified and that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should issue the […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Benue, Party Politics, State News
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has blamed the intolerance exhibited by Governor Gabriel Suswan of Benue state and his henchmen for the violence that rocked the Logo Local Government Area of the state, leaving many dead and several houses burnt. In a statement issued in Osogbo, Osun State, on Tuesday, the party also accused […]
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Benue, State News
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Benue State Government has condemned in very strong terms attempts by some workers in the state to create disaffection within labour circles just as it advised labour leaders who have been spreading misleading information through unsigned leaflets to desist or be prepared to face the wrath of the law for their mischief. In a statement […]
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Benue, State News
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
NO fewer than 50 heavy duty trucks were yesterday set ablaze at the Benue Cement Company, BCC, in Gboko following a sharp disagreement between two factions of the trailer drivers’ union operating within the factory site. Eyewitnesses in Gboko said the crisis erupted at the factory site of the company owned by business mogul, Alhaji […]
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Benue, Governors, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Benue State politicians may have decided to take the political battle in the north central state to the United States as they turned the ongoing convention of the Mutual Union of the Tiv in America (MUTA) to a political forum where they all discussed the political situation of the state. In his remarks at the […]
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Benue, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
THE Benue State govrnor, Dr Gabriel Suswam, has described the office of a commissioner as pivotal to effective goverance, even as he charged the newly sworn in commissioners in the state to be catalyst for meaningful development. In his address on the occasion, Suswam said “I want to charge you to consider your appointment […]
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Adamawa, Benue, Boko Haram, Borno, Gombe, Top Stories, Yobe
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
THE attacks that rocked two state capitals in the North East; Maiduguri, Bauchi, last week were typical Boko Haram terror acts. And the effect as expected further sent chills through already jarred nerves of the residents of the states; the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja inclusive. Feelers from the Presidency indicated that the country’s number one […]
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Benue, Headlines, State News
Friday, July 15th, 2011
The Benue State House of Assembly has vented its anger on the immediate past Commissioner for Works and Housing, and Commissioner Nominee, Dr. Eugene Aliegba who was indicted by the House for allegedly earning salaries from the Benue State University and the state government as Commissioner. The House said Aliegba, as Commissioner in the first […]
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Benue, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
TWENTY-FIVE persons, among them an army officer, identified as Lieu-tenant Chinedu Anyanwu, were feared dead in a renewed three days of sustained attacks by armed herdsmen on villages and towns in the border communities of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. Also, a soldier, including several persons, had been declared missing, while thousands of […]