Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Titus Uba, has vowed that no financial inducement will make 22 lawmakers in the House to work against the state. He disclosed this in an interview in Makurdi, the state capital. The speaker said the assembly under his leadership was ready to lift the suspension of eight…

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied claims made by President Buhari’s aide that it plotted with Senate President Bukola Saraki to freeze Benue’s State bank accounts. Special Adviser to the president on political matters, senator Babafemi Ojudu in his recent article titled “Fifth Columnists in our Recent History’, accused the EFCC of conspiring…

Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to appear before it for freezing the accounts of Benue State government.

The police, in a report, has absolved the Dangote Transport Company of any fault in a fatal accident involving one of its Howo trucks, which collided with an 18-seater Toyota bus belonging to the Gombe State...

Our silly season is here, the season that we show to the world how truly silly we are in conducting our affairs. In years of yore Nigerians were used to saying to people on New Year’s Day, “Happy New Year.”

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has stated that he is not afraid of any probe, provided it is fair and just, boasting that no investigation on fraud, with respect to finances of the state, would ever incriminate him.

The Benue State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned in strong terms, what it described as “political rascality” currently going on in the state.

Internally Displaced Persons, (IDPs) in eight camps in Benue State have expressed fear over their safety. This followed the plans by police authorities to withdraw their men who have been providing security in the various camps. Governor Samuel Ortom had disclosed the planned withdrawal to newsmen in Makurdi on Wednesday. He said he “received information…

Dr. Stephen Hwande, a PDP governorship aspirant in Benue, has said that the incumbent Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has not justified the confidence reposed on him by the elect0rate in 2015. “Ortom has not performed. He is a failure and does not deserve another tenure,” Hwande told newsmen on Monday in Makurdi. He said that…

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State yesterday inaugurated Batch ‘B’, Stream 1, corps members in the state.

Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom SAID 10 out of the 17 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the state are “ready” to follow him to the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Ortom announced his defection from the APC to the PDP on Wednesday during a meeting with 13 local government chairmen and 276 councillors at…

Benue youths have blocked the State's Governor Samuel Ortom, from going for All progressive party meeting in Abuja. The youths marched to the Government House in the early hours of Wednesday to prevent the governor from attending a meeting with the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole and some other party members “If the…