The death toll in Wednesday’s armed herdsmen attack on Umogidi village, Enetekpa Adoka district of Otukpo Local Government Area, Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State has risen to 51. This is just as angry youths of neighbouring Apa LGA, where a traditional ruler in the Ugbobi community and many others were also murdered by the marauders, took over the …

Three persons were killed by suspected armed herdsmen on Tuesday afternoon in Umogidi village in the Enetekpa Adoka district of Otukpo Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. The attack on the Umogidi community came to less than 24 houses after a monarch and his subjects were killed by the marauders in Ugbobi village in Apa LGA in what locals …

Benue State’s Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Congress have been at odds over Governor Samuel Ortom’s hurried projects, which include a supposed airport. In a statement on Sunday, the APC Publicity Secretary in the state, Daniel Ihomou, said it was curious that Ortom would embark on an airport project two months to the end of his administration. “How …

The Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the outgoing administration of Governor Samuel Ortom has embarked on emergency awards of contracts worth billions of Naira. The state chairman of the APC, Hon. Austine Agada told newsmen in Makurdi, the state capital: “Recently, the Benue State Government through the Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, …

Three people were feared dead following a bloody clash between youths in  Obi and Otukpo Local Government Areas of Benue State. A source from Otukpo claimed that some youths of Ijegwu in Obi LGA had on Monday engaged in a free-for-all with their counterparts in Otukpo over disruption in power supply as a result of falling poles occasioned by windstorms. …