Plateau State Governor, Caleb Muftwang, where over 50 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in recent weeks, says the assault on the area is sponsored and genocidal. Attackers struck in several communities in the Bokkos Local Government Area (LGA) of the North-Central state, displacing many and leaving...
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By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Senator Diket Plang, representing Plateau Central Senatorial District, has decried the spate of attacks in parts of Plateau State, particularly in Bokkos Local Government Area, describing the killings as tragic and no longer tolerable. Addressing journalists in Jos, the lawmaker condemned what he described...
Former President of the Senate, David Mark has condemned the recent attacks on several communities in Benue State by suspected armed herdsmen. This is contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Paul Mumeh in Kano on Monday. Mark said that the attacks had led to...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has condemned the unwarranted killing of 60 people in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau. The condemnation is contained in a statement issued by the JNI Secretary-General, Prof. Khalid Aliyu, on Monday in Kaduna. Aliyu said, “It is very depressing, to have read after...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed deep sorrow over the recent attacks by terror gangs on vulnerable communities in Plateau, which claimed numerous lives, including those of children. National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Prof. Tanko Baba, in a statement on Sunday, described...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Women Without Walls Initiative (WOWWI) has condemned the recent killings in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, which claimed the lives of dozens of residents and left many others traumatized. In a statement signed by its Executive Director, Apostle Esther Ibanga, the...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has urged Plateau communities to take ownership of peace efforts by collectively declaring that enough is enough to the protracted violence that has gripped the state for decades. Ribadu, who represented President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during a...
) The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Benjamin Kalu has condemned the recent killings in Plateau by gunmen. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that gunmen recently invaded Ruwi, Hurti, and Tadai communities in Bokkos Local Government Area of the State. As well as Manguna and Dafo...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has promised that the gunmen who killed many people in communities in Plateau State will be apprehended and face severe punishment under the law. The President extended his condolences to the families of the victims in Ruwi, Hurti, and Tadai communities...
Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau says that the ongoing attacks and killings in some parts of the state is a coordinated crime sponsored by conflict merchants and not farmer-herder clashes. The governor said this during the Fashion and Arts Exhibition organised by the Tincity Fashion Week titled “The Plateau...
Rep. Blessing Onuh, representing Otukpo-Ohimini Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has urged the Federal Government to curb the escalating insecurity and incessant killings in Benue. Speaking with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, Onuh, of the All Progressives Congress, lamented the incessant attacks and killings in Otukpo in...
Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo, on Monday, paid a condolence visit to his counterpart in Kano State, Abba Yusuf, over the killings of 16 Kano-bound travellers last Friday. Okpebholo arrived the Kano State Government House at noon and was received by Yusuf and other government officials. The 16 travellers...
The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria (CSSLN) on Monday condemned the lynching of 16 travellers accused of possessing dane guns (local firearms). The Chairman of CSSLN, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin, recalled that the victims were killed by a mob in Uromi, Edo, on March 28, following allegations...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A Sankera based peace advocacy group has deplored last weekend’s unprovoked attacks by suspected armed herdsmen on Mbagena Community in Mchihe Council Ward of Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. Eleven persons were reportedly killed and many others injured just as property estimated...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has appealed to the entire people of Kwande Local Government Area (LGA), particularly the women who have taken to the streets to register their grievances about the security situation in the LGA to remain calm as his government...
There have been growing concerns about the obnoxious increasing trend of of ritual killings across Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the heightened situation of ritual killings is driven by the quest for quick wealth, poverty, unemployment, and lack of effective legislation. There have also been...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Plateau State Police Command has arrested nine suspects in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old boy, Tasiu Abdullahi, in Jos North Local Government Area. The state Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Adesina, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Command’s headquarters in Jos....
Thirty-two-year-old Timileyin Ajayi, has been remanded in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Nasarawa State Police Command in Lafia, the Nasarawa State Capital Timileyin was apprehended for the murder of his alleged girlfriend, Salome Eleojo Adaidu, a 24-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), serving at...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka– Anambra State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a yet-to-be-identified assailants who on Monday attacked security operatives and unarmed civilians in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Ikenga said...