BY SAA-AONDO ADZEGEH and PHILIP AGADA, Markudi – In the build up to the 2023 general election, Benue State is witnessing a gale of decampments sweeping across the state with thousands cross carpeting into the two major political parties in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the...
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By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has advocated that the National Judicial Council, NJC take over the payment of retirement benefits of Justices of State High Courts. Governor Ortom bared his mind on Friday at the premises of the State High Court during a valedictory court...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom looked back at the state since its creation in 1976 and declared that only God deserves praises and thanksgiving for preserving the state. The governor spoke on Thursday at the Chapel of Grace, Benue Peoples House Makurdi during a...
….Orders full scale investigation BY THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has expressed sadness over the fire that gutted former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s mango farm in Howe, Gwer Local Government Area of Benue State. He therefore ordered a full scale investigation into the incident “to unravel...
The Director, Benue Fire Service, Mr Donald Ikyaaza, has confirmed the fire incident at Obasanjo Mango Farm at Howe, Gwer Local Government Area. Ikyaaza confirmed to journalists in a telephone interview in Makurdi on Monday that the fire gutted the farm at 2 p.m. on Saturday. He said that...
In this dispensation, I honestly crave for a repeat of the political contestation between the late Chief Tony Anenih and Chief Tom Ikimi in Edo State during the ill-fated Third Republic. This could spice up the 2023 political contestation between the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition...
By THOMAS AKASE, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has lamented over the demise of former Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Professor Ignatius Ayua, saying that the state has lost a leading light. Reacting to the death of Professor Ayua who died in Abuja yesterday, Governor Ortom...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Thursday gave assent to an amendment to the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of the State 2017 to provide stiffer penalties to offenders. By the amendment, the owner of an impounded cow, pig, sheep or goat...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Governor Samuel Ortom has unveiled the Benue State Humanitarian Response Plan, BSHRP 2022. Performing the ceremony on Tuesday at the New Banquet Hall of the Benue Peoples House Makurdi, Governor Ortom lamented the continued stay of over 1.5 million people, mostly peasant farmers in...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has provided over two thousand boreholes to communities in eight Local Government Areas of the state. Outgoing UNICEF Chief Field Officer in Nigeria, Dr Ibrahim Conteh who disclosed this Tuesday, January 18th,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Igede Youth Council (IYC) has condemned in totality the extortion of poor people by enumerators mandated by the Federal Government to collate primary data of residents in some clans of Igede that are yet to benefit from the government largesse. The President of...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi- Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has felicitated with his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal on his 56th birthday. Governor Ortom in a goodwill message to Tambuwal on Monday, described him as a diligent, focussed and a result oriented political leader. The governor said Tambuwal...
‘The greatest problem of man is that man is the problem’-Anonymous Aside from the time-honoured belief that the poverty (intellectual, economic, social, psychological and cultural) of any country is felt by the quality and quantity of its citizens, this piece primarily stemmed from barrage of intra, inter, trans and...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called on the Federal Government to ignore Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue’s request for the proscription of the association. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that Governor Ortom through a statement issued on Thursday, had asked...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has commended the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration for heeding his call and finally labeling bandits wrecking havoc on citizens across the country as terrorists, but said “this is not enough.” He then called on the President to be...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has signed the 2022 budget of N155.6 billion into law. Governor Ortom signed the budget on Friday in Makurdi. The governor promised to adhere strictly to the provisions of the budget. “I will not do anything outside of the...
….Ortom backs him, says imposition undemocratic By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi- National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu says the party under his leadership will not give room for imposition of candidates. Senator Ayu spoke just as the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom aligned with the...
Some tenants in Makurdi, the Benue capital, have decried the sudden and astronomical increase in tenancy fees within the city in recent years. The tenants, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Friday, appealed to the state government to regulate rents and mode of...
By AVADOO IORNAV, Makurdi – Former Executive Secretary of the Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BSEMA, Hon. Adikpo Agbatse, has called on relevant stakeholders to immortalize a renowned traditional ruler in Tiv land, Late Tor Jato-Aka for his positive contributions in sustaining the unity of the Tiv people while...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Tuesday condoled with the Founder/Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, over the death of his younger brother, Sani Dangote. Sani who was until his death in the United States of America Sunday was the Vice President...