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Posts tagged with "Benue State"

Governor Ortom calls on Buhari to stand down with a year to go and hand over to Osinbajo African News

Governor Ortom calls on Buhari to stand down with a year to go and hand over to Osinbajo

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stand down ahead of the expiration of his term on office and hand over to vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo to save the nation from total collapse.   Re-elected for second four year term in 2019, President Buhari is due to leave office next year...
Oyedepo places curse on kidnappers and Fulani herdsmen saying Winners Chapel members are immune African News

Oyedepo places curse on kidnappers and Fulani herdsmen saying Winners Chapel members are immune

LIVING Faith Church Worldwide founder Bishop David Oyedepo has placed a curse on all the kidnappers operating across Nigeria and their sponsors adding that the members of his flock are immune from their criminal activities.   Nigeria is currently being wracked by insecurity as terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, rape, armed...
Governor Ortom vows to oppose Tinubu because he has pledged to continue Buhari's policies African News

Governor Ortom vows to oppose Tinubu because he has pledged to continue Buhari's policies

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has declared that he will not be supporting the presidential aspirations of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu because the former Lagos State governor is planning to continue the policies of President Muhammadu Buhari if elected.   Earlier this month, Asiwaju Tinubu announced that he will be seeking the...
Governor Ortom wants Buhari to go a step further and declare three Fulani organisations as terrorists African News

Governor Ortom wants Buhari to go a step further and declare three Fulani organisations as terrorists

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reiterated his call for President Muhammadu Buhari to declare all Fulani socio-cultural organisations including the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) as terrorists.   Earlier this week, the federal government eventually declared  armed bandits who have been...
Deeper Life Church pastor named as new Och’Idoma and traditional head of Nigeria's Idoma people African News

Deeper Life Church pastor named as new Och’Idoma and traditional head of Nigeria's Idoma people

DEEPER Christian Life Ministry clergyman Pastor John Elaigwu Odogbo has emerged as the new Och’Idoma and paramount ruler of the Idoma nation in Benue State after a rigorous selection process.   In Nigeria's north-central geo-political zone, the Tiv and Idoma of Benue State are the two most populous ethnic groups and have...
Governor Ortom wants herdsmen bodies designated as terrorist groups too like bandits African News

Governor Ortom wants herdsmen bodies designated as terrorist groups too like bandits

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reiterated his call that the federal government include Fulani herdsmen bodies Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) and Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore on its list of terrorist organisations.   Last month the federal government won a high court ruling which gave it...
Health minister says it will take Nigeria about 120 years to acquire the necessary number of doctors African News

Health minister says it will take Nigeria about 120 years to acquire the necessary number of doctors

NIGERIA'S education  minister Mallam Adamu Adamu  has declared that it would take the country about 120 years to have the necessary number of medical doctors required to get the health sector functioning at full capacity.   To provide adequate healthcare, the World Health Organisation (WHO) prescribes one doctor for every...
Iyorchia Ayu issues quit notice to ruling APC following his election as new PDP chairman African News

Iyorchia Ayu issues quit notice to ruling APC following his election as new PDP chairman

FORMER senate president Senator Iyorchia Ayu has been elected as the new chairman of Nigeria's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its annual national convention held in Abuja yesterday.   Senator Ayu, who served briefly as senate president in the Third Republic between 1992 and 1993,  also  held three...
Tiv Youth Organisation vows to fight plans to establish gracing site the way it opposed Dan Fodio News

Tiv Youth Organisation vows to fight plans to establish gracing site the way it opposed Dan Fodio

SOCIO-cultural body the Tiv Youth Organisation (TYO) has vowed to defend its land with every last drop of blood in the wake of recent decision by the Nigerian federal government to establish 368 grazing sites across 25 states of the country.   Over recent years, Tivland has borne the brunt of the ongoing murderous campaign by...
Coalition of over 400 northern groups vow to confront Fulani cattle herdsmen from now on African News

Coalition of over 400 northern groups vow to confront Fulani cattle herdsmen from now on

SEVERAL northern Nigerian socio-economic groups have vowed to resist the ongoing attacks and killings in their region by Fulani cattle herdsmen having come to the realisation that the violence is threatening their economies.   Over recent years, Fulani herdsmen have been terrorising northern Nigeria, attacking villages when...
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