Lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterparts resorted to fisticuff at the chamber of the Benue state house of assembly on Tuesday.Trouble started when Terkimbi Kyange, the speaker, read a letter in which APC demanded to be given the slot of the majority leader because it has a lead over the PDP following [...]
Gabriel Suswam, the immediate-past governor of Benue state, has withdrawn his petition against the election of Barnabas Gemade as the winner of Benue northeast senatorial district.Gemade, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the seat against Suswam of the PDP.The ex-governor had filed a petition before the national/state election [...]
The Benue state command of the Nigeria police force has confirmed the killing of Baba Ibrahim, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP), by gunmen in the Katsina-Ala area of the state.Austin Ezeani, the police public relations officer (PPRO), told NAN in Makurdi on Thursday that the late officer was the head of a special police task force on cattle rustling [...]
Unidentified persons invaded Radio Benue in the early hours of Tuesday, carting away money and other valuable items.The raid affected the offices of the director-general and director of marketing, where N140,000 was stolen.A personal DVD player was also removed from the office of director of engineering services.Justin Amase, the commissioner for information and orientation, expressed shock over the incident and [...]
The National Independent Electoral Commission in Benue state says it has received 5,000 card readers for the March 28 and April 11 general election.Istifinus Dafwang, resident electoral commissioner in the state, made this known on Tuesday during an interview with NAN in Makurdi, capital of the state.Dafwang said the card readers were in excess of 400, saying the excess would [...]
The Benue state command of the Nigeria police force has alerted residents of the state of the presence of a ring of kidnappers targeting children.Austin Ezeani, spokesman of the command, told NAN in Makurdi, the state capital, on Tuesday that the kidnappers were operating mostly in Makurdi and parts of Guma local government area.According to him, the abductors target children [...]
Gabriel Suswam, the governor of Benue state, has denied embezzling the salaries of his workers, instead blaming the five-month payment delay on the federal government.He said Benue was receiving poor budgetary allocations from the government at the centre and that a loan of N200 million would be needed in addition to the state allocation before salaries could be paid.Suswam was speaking [...]
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared John Tiav, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the winner of the re-contested Buruku federal constituency seat in Benue.Tiav polled 25,988 votes ahead of John Tine of Labour Party, who had 3,602 and Sekav Iyortyom of the All Progressive Congress scored, who polled 395 votes.Baba Abba-Yusuf, the INEC resident commissioner [...]
A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) board of trustees and caucus leader of the party in the Benue south senatorial zone, General Geoffrey Ejiga, has dismissed a recent publication alleging that the senatorial zone has endorsed three aspirants to contest the state's governorship election.He said such no decision was taken at any meeting.Ejiga, who spoke to reporters over the [...]
Social and business activities in Benue state were hampered on Friday, as the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) stationed their members across different commercial banks to halt bank operations and gather momentum for the industrial action organised by the unions.The workers are protesting deductions of their salaries, non-payment of three years' transport allowances, non-implementation of the full [...]
Sergeant Bawa Ekoja, a police officer in Benue state, was shot to death by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Thursday.Confirming the incident, DSP Daniel Ezeala, the police public relations officer in the state, said the assailants shot their victims several times in the back while riding his bicycle home after closing from night duty at the police headquarters.Ezeala said [...]
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