Benue State

No Mercy For Illegal Gun Carriers – IGP Orders Police To Shoot On Sight

IGP Olatunji Disu orders police officers nationwide to shoot on sight anyone found carrying illegal firearms, declaring there will be "no mercy" for armed criminals threatening public safety. Directive, issued in Makurdi, is backed by Force Order 237,...

Protesters Take Victims’ Bodies To Och’Idoma Palace Following Death Of 10 In Oturkpo Invasion

July 12, (THEWILL) — The Chairman of Oturkpo Local Government area, Mr Maxwell Ogiri, has confirmed the invasion of Oturkpo-Nobi community by suspected herdsmen at the early hours of Sunday, during which 10 lives were lost, and several others...

Police Arrest Suspect In Connection With Assassination Of Lecturer, Brother In Benue

July 9 (THEWILL) — Benue State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Abdullahi Usman of Awe Local Government Area in Nasarawa State in connection with the assassination of a lecturer at the Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi,...

Benue APC Boils As Iornem, Others Threatens Court Action Over Alleged Substitution Threat

July 6, (THEWILL) — It is not yet uhuru for Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), following the May 16, 2027, party primaries that produced Senate and House of Representatives candidates ahead of the 2027 general...

Taraku Mills To Resume Full Production As Expertraites, Technicians Continue Work On Factory

July 04, (THEWILL) — Foreign expatriates and technicians engaged by the Benue Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC) have continued work on the Taraku Mills, as part of ongoing efforts to restore the long-idle factory to full production. The...

Bandits Kill Former Benue SSG David Salifu

July 3 (THEWILL) — Former Secretary to the Benue State Government (SSG), Prof. David Salifu, has died after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds by suspected bandits during an attack along the Wukari–Makurdi road. Prof. Salifu served as Secretary to the Benue...

Gunmen Kill 16 in Benue Community

July 01 (THEWILL) — ‎No fewer than sixteen residents in the Sai community in Katsina Ala Local Government Area of Benue State were gruesomely killed in the early hours of Wednesday by suspected terrorist herdsman, while others sustained injuries. An...

Troops Foil Terror Attack On Benue Yam Market, Neutralise Two Suspects

June 28 (THEWILL) — Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), in collaboration with the Benue State Civil Protection Guard, have foiled a terrorist attack on the popular Tor Donga Yam Market in Benue State, neutralising two suspected attackers and...

N139.8bn Unaccounted For By Ex-Governor Ortom’s Administration – Commission

June 19 (THEWILL) — The Benue State Income and Expenditure Commission of Inquiry 2015 instituted by Governor Hyacinth Alia has summited it findings. It revealed that over N139.8 billion was unaccounted for by the then government of Samuel Ortom who...

First Lady Inaugurates Projects, Tasks Benue People on Sustainable Support for Tinubu, Alia Administration

June 16, (THEWILL) — Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has inaugurated ten selected intracity road projects in Makurdi Metropolis embarked upon by the governor Hyacinth Alia administration. Performing the ceremony on Tuesday, Senator Oluremi noted that the commissioning...
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Editors Accuse Nigerian Authorities Of Criminalising Journalism, Demand Immediate Release Of Detained FIJ Journalist

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has accused Nigerian authorities of criminalising journalism through the arrest, detention and prosecution of Daniel Ojukwu, an investigative journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), and demanded his immediate release from the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja.
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