By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi- The recent comment by the Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia that a section of the Masev community involved in cattle rustling that led to the attack and killing of the people at Mbakyor, Mbalom Masev in Gwer LGA was not meant to indict...
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By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has sent condolences to families of victims of Wa-ndoo in Mbalom, Gwer-East Local Government Area of Benue State, who were attacked by armed herders leaving over twenty people dead including children. NATIONAL ACCORD recalled...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The Benue State Government has declared that the fourteen day ultimatum given to the herdsmen to leave Benue State ended on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 and the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law would be enforced. Addressing journalists.on Wednesday at the...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Benue State Chapter has lauded the efforts of the Governor Hyacinth Alia led administration for implementing accumulated promotion of primary school teachers in the state. The NUT Chairman in the state, Levi Akuma, who gave the...
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia of Benue has denied receiving N44 billion from the Federal Government, as part of President Bola Tinubu’s efforts to address food shortage in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue, had alleged that...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has lauded Victor Tartenger fondly called Chef Naira Victor for making Benue proud through his efforts to put Benue to the world by embarking on the longest cooking Marathon code named “Cook-A-Thon”, which he has successfully completed...
Governor of Benue State, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia on Tuesday inaugurated two judicial commissions of inquiry to investigate the administration of former governor, Samuel Ortom. The commissions are the Benue Income and Expenditure Commission of Inquiry 2024 and the Sale/Lease of Government Assets, Companies, and Markets (both State and...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has charged the new caretaker committee chairmen in the state to avoid the fraudulent path of their predecessors which led to their untimely sack from office. Speaking on Saturday night during the three newly sworn-in caretaker committee...
The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Daniel Ihomon, in a statement in Makurdi said, “The National Secretariat of our great party has since restored the status of Comr. Austine Agada as member and state chairman of the APC in Benue state and all well meaning members of the...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Some members of the National Assembly in Benue State are plotting to distabilise Governor Hyacinth Alia and to discredit the government before the whole world, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Tersoo Kula has said. Addressing journalists in Makurdi yesterday, the...
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi says President Bola Tinubu has approved funds for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge Bypasses, Lagos-Ibadan highway and the Lafia Bypass. Umahi said this on Thursday in Makurdi, during the inspection of the Lafia Bypass Road and dualisation of 9th...
The Vice-President, Sen. Kashim Shettima, has appealed to Benue politicians to shelve their political differences and embrace peace for more development of the state under President Tinubu’s administration. Shettima made the appeal on Tuesday in Makurdi, while addressing participants at the First National Expanded Micro, Small and Medium...
Supreme Court on Monday upheld the election of Gov. Hyacinth Alia of Benue. The Governor won under the All Progressives Congress (APC). Details later…..
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia on Tuesday flagged off the distribution of 56 trucks of palliatives to Benue residents to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy removal. Performing the ceremony in Makurdi, Gov Alia said all Benue residents would benefit from the third phase of the state-wide palliatives....
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has not recruited anyone to speak on his behalf in Aso Rock Villa, the immediate past Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Emmanuel Jime has said. Jime stated this on Sunday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Makurdi....
Benue governor Hyacinth Alia says he has special love for his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and will never work against it. Alia’s vow is contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Tersoo Kula, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has said the state is set to pay its workforce based on the numbers of days at work. Governor Alia, who stated this at the weekend during a reception for members of the Conference...
Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has said that additional 100 buses has been added to the fleet of the state transport company, Benue links to ease transportation problem in the state. Alia stated this at a reception for members of the Conference of Benue Journalists (CBJ)...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has approved the appointment of Mr Emmanuel Aboh as the new Auditor General of the State. The Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Tersoo Kula, disclosed this in a statement issued in Makurdi on Friday. The appointment takes...
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has called for the deployment of more troops and more army Forward Operating Bases in some parts of Benue to address the security challenges bedeviling the state. Alia made the call when he paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Army...