Tag: Benue State

“Nobody has any authority whatsoever to deduct any amount from federation revenue," an official said.

Mr Akume takes over from Boss Mustapha as the SGF.

HRW says although Nigerian authorities admitted carrying out the raid, they evaded “key questions” concerning the circumstances surrounding the attack.

Despite Minister Lai Mohammed's statements about the $104 million earned from film and music in 2019, there are doubts about ...

Benue governor, Hyacinth Alia, was inaugurated on Monday.

“He (Buhari) has taken us from top to bottom.”

The APC says Mr Gemade and others worked against the party during the recent general elections.

At least 74 people were killed last month following clashes that erupted between farmers and herders in different communities in ...

The transition committee accused the outgoing Ortom administration of reneging on his promise.

Mr Buhari had earlier directed the postponement of the census initially scheduled for 3 to 7 May.

Mr Tinubu is billed to commission the Rumuola/Rumuokwuta flyover and the new Magistrate Courts Complex on 3 and 4 May.

The police say the incident happened at Ikyve, a community in Konshisha Local Government of the state.

"Buhari has empowered and emboldened the Fulani pastoralists in their expansionist agenda including killings…..”

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

Those who wonder how these killings have lasted and deepened in intensity for as long as they have need not ...

The president urged that efforts must be made to stop the extreme violence.

Mr Ortom said he decided to withdraw the petition for the sake of peace despite glaring electoral malpractices.

"Ayu is just an unmitigated disaster. His leadership is an evil that befell the PDP. The only option left is ...

“The purported suspension is, therefore, an exercise in futility as it derives its strength majorly from gross illiteracy, ignorance, gambling ...

It’s Ayu who should be suspended from the PDP, the Rivers governor says.

Mr Alia of the APC scored 473,933 votes to beat Mr Uba of the PDP who polled 223,913 votes.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Benue State, Sam Egwu, announced the suspension of elections in Kwande East and Kwande ...

Benjamin Iorlumum had filed his appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge the nomination of Mr Hembe as the Labour ...

Hyacinth Alia, 56, ditched his cassock last year and emerged as the governorship candidate of the APC in Benue State.

EFCC says the lecturer could not provide a coherent explanation, leading to arrest, and the search of his car revealed ...