Benue State

Benue State Government has come out to place an embargo on mid-term breaks and visiting days for students of all boarding schools in the state. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar recently revealed this in Makurdi, and Nigerians have been reacting. According to him, the decision is part of ...

The Police Command in Benue has come out to say that no flag of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was hoisted in Ado Local Government Area of Benue. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Catherine Anene revealed this recently via an SMS to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According ...

Benue State Government has come out to say that schools will be reopened on August 4, 2020, for final year classes. The government recently revealed that this has been decided in compliance with the recent directive of the Federal Government. According to the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar, a ...

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has issued an order that no corpse should be brought into the state, henceforth, from anywhere across Nigeria to curb the spread of coronavirus. Ortom revealed this at a meeting held with two warring communities, Mbagwaza in Ushongo and Tsambe in Vandeikya Local Government Areas ...

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom is not happy with the increased influx of armed herdsmen into the state. He revealed this briefly after receiving the leaders of Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, in his office in Makurdi. According to him, the state is currently under the siege of armed herdsmen and ...

There is an influx of Tiv residents from Nasarawa State into Benue State, following sustained attacks by suspected Fulani militia. Suspected Fulani herdsmen are said to have launched attacks on Tiv indigenes in Nasarawa State. The busy Lafia/Makurdi road has been overtaken by victims of Fulani attacks who are heading ...

The former senate president, Chief Sen. David Mark, has come out to support the victims of benue flood by donating 5 trailer of relief materials to affected communities. the Senator who empathized with the submerged communities on the lost of lives and valuables, called on the government to act rapidly ...

They say this happened on Thursday 19th September at Orokam, Obadigbo Local Government area of Benue State. According to the story, the woman is said to be the wife of a popular school proprietor in the area who was caught cheating days after he died . She lost her husband ...

Wedding can not be sweeter than this for Peter Peter Anyiman an indigene of Benue State as he got more than what he could ever wish for as his State Governor, Gabriel Suswam served as his best man on his wedding day. Peter has served as the cook for Catholic ...

Benue State Ministry of Finance has, on Thursday, refused to pay the N25,000 which the state government normally pays outgoing corps members who served in organisations owned/run by the state. The 2012 batch ‘B’ corps members who passed out on Thursday were shocked, on getting to the finance office, to ...

A sugarcane seller is presently on the run, for stabbing his 19-year-old customer, Umaru Abdulrahaman, to death on Wednesday morning in Wadata, Makurdi town, Benue state. Local media reported that the teenage customer, a resident of 20 Kano street, Wadata, was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by the sugarcane seller ...