Tag: Benue killings

Residents said suspected armed herders carried out the assault, which is part of a broader pattern of escalating violence across ...

Nine residents were killed in Edikwu Ankpali, Apa LGA, as renewed attacks deepen insecurity in Benue, with residents naming victims ...

A witness said the victims, mostly women and youths, were gathering fallen cashew nuts after rainfall when attackers opened fire.

Families gathered for the burial of victims of the Kwande attack were unable to retrieve the bodies after the mortician ...

“Barbaric, senseless and unacceptable,” Governor Hyacinth Alia said as he condemned the killing of 12 people in Kwande, hours after ...

The COAS said the military is fully committed to ending the spate of violence and will not allow Nigeria’s territorial ...

The president told the governments of Benue and Nasarawa states to constitute the committee to find lasting solutions to the ...

Every grave in Benue stands as silent evidence of a state that has failed its most basic duty to protect ...

Benue’s tragedy is a warning — and an opportunity. If we continue to explain it through the narrow lens of ...

“The silence, the indifference, the lack of urgency, it is all damning. It speaks to a deeper rot in the ...

The assailants, believed to be Fulani militia, arrived in the town’s market square around 10 p.m. on 13 June, two ...

Different headlines dominate the cover pages of the newspapers

"Perhaps if disgraced Governor Ortom had been more concerned with doing his job than politicising the tragedies so frequently taking ...

The governor threatened to report Mr Akume to a Tiv council.

The court notes the judgement could not be delivered because judges assigned had resigned.

The protest was triggered by the killings of 19 people including two Catholic priests.

The protest was triggered by the killings of 19 people including two Catholic priests.

The Catholic cardinal described the death of two priests and others as a “horrific massacre which will not be forgotten ...

The protest will hold on Tuesday.

The group plans to set up the Nigeria CSO Crisis Action on the Middle Belt to gather evidence of killings

The CBCN has accused Mr. Buhari of conniving with the suspected killers.

The president says killings are part of an agenda to turn Nigerians against themselves.

At least 19 people, including two priests were killed during a recent attack.

The lawmakers called for their immediate removal of all security chiefs.

Scores of people have been killed in Benue in 2018.