Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi, said the Corps has arrested over 50 suspected armed herdsmen, in ongoing operations to check the escalating insecurity in the country. The NSCDC boss said this at the agency’s headquarters Wednesday in Abuja, where licences were presented to new private guard operators. The CG, however stressed Read More
The socio-political group, Ndigbo Youth Parliament (NYP), has bemoaned the incessant attacks and killings of Nigerians, especially “innocent Ndigbo in their own ancestral home by suspected armed herdsmen”. In statement made available to newsmen Saturday, signed by the Speaker of Ndigbo Youth Parliament (NYP), Rt. Hon. Rikki Nwajiofor, the group condemned the unabated attacks and killings going on in Igbo-speaking Read More
Chairmen of the 13 local government Council areas and the 64 Development Center coordinators of Ebonyi state have openly endorsed the law against open grazing. Endorsement of the law was necessitated by the killing of about 25 persons by suspected herders in Nkalaha, Obegu, Amezu, Umuhuali, Egedegede communities in Ishielu LGA of the state. Chairman of the All Local Government Read More
Suspected herders Monday evening killed about 18 natives of Egedegede, Obegu and Amuzu communities in Ishieleu North Development Centre, Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi state. The suspected herders were said to have invaded the communities from Enugu axis. Though the actual number of casualtieswere yet to be known, a resident of the community, who spoke under anonymity said 18 Read More
A group under Tiv Professionals Group (TPG) Tuesday called on the federal government to take an unambiguous decision against herdsmen who have formed themselves into militia groups to terrorise Nigerians. Chairman of the group, Professor Zacharys Gundu, who addressed a press conference in Makurdi the Benue state capital, urged the president to treat militia herdsmen as terrorists and contain their Read More
The President of the Benue State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BENCIMA), Dr. Paul Orkuma Ubwa, has condemned last Saturday’s attack on Governor Samuel Ortom by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Ubwa in a statement, Friday in Makurdi, said the attack was not only on the person of the governor, but was targeted at destroying the economy of the state Read More
President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, on Wednesday said the continuous silence of President Muhammadu Buhari on the insecurity in Nigeria ” is too loud , disheartening and disturbing.” The PFN President stated this at the Cornerstone City, Ibadan when he received separately, the Lagos, Ogun and Osun States’ Chapters of the PFN led Read More
Perhaps, in recent times, there has not been a moment when it is so glaring that the contraption called Nigeria is sharply divided on the fault lines of religion and especially ethnicity than now. In this, all sorts of people are sadly involved; the educated, semi-educated, illiterate, informed, ill-informed, misinformed and the uninformed. A simple survey of opinions on the Read More
Recently, the convoy of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state was attacked by the unknown gunmen on his way to Makurdi from Abuja. Consequently, the governor called on President Muhammadu Buhari to fish out those behind the attack and bring them to book. It is true that the Buhari government has been careless on the issue of security since those Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerted the nation of plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to allegedy use acts of banditry and electoral violence to disrupt the nations democratic order and disintegrate the nation. The party in a statement by it National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, Sunday asserted that “the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency to Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, saying the string of brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable. The president also welcomed the dispatch of a high level team of crack investigators to the state from the police headquarters in Abuja, urging the Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned Saturday’s attack and assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state by suspected bandits, reported to be killer herdsmen. PDP in a statement by it National Publicity Secretary, Kola Olgbondiyan, Saturday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to put machinery in motion by ordering an immediate manhunt, arrest and prosecution of the assailants Read More
Gunmen believed to be Herdsmen militia Saturday morning reportedly attacked the Benue state governor Samuel Ortom on his farm. The herdsmen were said to have ambushed the governor at 11am at his farm in Tyomu, a suburb in Makurdi, the state capital located along Makurdi Gboko road. Narrating his ordeal to newsmen, at the government House Makurdi, governor Ortom said Read More
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Saturday morning, was shocked after he narrowly escaped death following gun shots by armed herders aimed at his convoy at Tyo-Mu community in the outskirts of Makurdi town, along Makurdi-Gboko road. The governor was said to be on his way to Makurdi, the state capital, when the suspected herdsmen opened fire on his convoy Read More
Residents of Wukari local government area of Taraba state on Friday expressed worry over the increasing rate of kidnapping in area. The president of the Jukun Youth Cultural Development Association, Mr. Nafinji Danjuma, while briefing newsmen in Jalingo lamented that the issue of kidnapping in Wukari is getting worse. He said that on the 5th February, 2021 at precisely 7:30pm, Read More
The ugly trend of banditry in the North-west and a part of North-central of Nigeria continued Thursday with the criminal elements killing innocent citizens and abducting others. The affected states include Kaduna and Zamfara and Sokoto, all in the North-west, as well as Niger in the North-central Although they killed a security officer, they however lost two of their gang members in Read More
What was meant to be a normal television discussion over the spate of insecurity in the country has turned out to be a political war in Plateau state. MUHAMMAD TANKO SHITTU writes. Lately, the governor of Plateau state, Mr Simon Lalong, perhaps harped on the truth when he said that like herders, farmers also carry AK-47 in the course of Read More
Kaduna state governor Nasir El-rufai, said the disagreement between the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom and his Bauchi counterpart, Bala Mohammed over the activities of the herdsmen was not a fundamental issue but difference in opinion. El-rufai assured that the altercation will stop and the Northern Governors Forum will come with permanent solutions to the movement of helders across the Read More
It is unfortunate that some mischievous Nigerians, among them the well educated, are keen at deepening our perceived or real differences to gain undeserved recognition that is based on primordial sentiments. These Nigerians are predisposed to hijack the slightest and flimsy excuse to ingrain discord to further polarize our fragile unity as a nation. These are those who are prone Read More
The intra-ethnic violence that rocked Shasha market last week, resulting to the loss of many lives and properties worth millions of naira, is uncalled for and condemnable. The crisis came at a time when the country is grappling with numerous security challenges ranging from Boko Haram, banditry to kidnapping. It is not an understatement to say, Nigeria had experienced ethno-religious Read More
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state Monday asked the Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, to apologise to Nigerians for supporting herdsmen who are attacking and killing Nigerians. Ortom also said based on Governor Bala’s constant favourable comments, he was beginning to think he may have a hand in sponsoring the notorious herdsmen who are terrorising Nigerians. Ortom addressed journalists at Read More
Men of the Ogun state police command have arrested three suspected herdsmen for their alleged role in the attack on Bamajo village in Aiyetoro area of Ogun state. The suspects; Musa Yusuf, Usman Mohammed and Aliyu Abubakar, were alleged to have attacked the village where they set some houses ablaze and inflicted deep machete cuts on one Ismaila Alabi. Ogun Read More
The Coalition of Northern Organisation (CON), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO )has supported Governor Bala Mohammed over his comments that Fulani herdsmen need to carry arms to defend themselves from banditry, kidnapping, and cattle rustling. Speaking in Kaduna on Saturday, Convener of CON, Malam Idris Umar Goga, condemned the recent quit notice reportedly issued to Fulani herders in some Southwest states declaring Read More
Cocoa and Plantain Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (CPFAN) on Friday in Akure, the Ondo state capital, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen. Its chairman, Chief Ayodele Ojo, said this would enhance the federal government’s policies and programmes on food security. Chief Ojo told a news conference that if the frequent clashes were not quickly Read More
The age-long relationship between Yoruba and Fulani in the western part of the country appears threatened over recent happenings. TOPE SUNDAY writes. In the last couple of months the relationship between Yoruba and Fulani in the South-west is frosty over the alleged killings being perpetrated by the unknown assailants, but suspected to have been carried by some criminal elements among Read More
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