benue
27 Jan
The Benue Government has confirmed the outbreak of rabies virus in Kwande and Gboko Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Dr. Aondoakaa Asambe, Director General (DG), Benue Bureau of Livestock Development and Transboundary Animal Diseases Control, made the disclosure on Monday in Makurdi. Asambe said the bureau was alerted to suspected rabies cases following…
24 Jan
Gov. Hyacinth Alia of Benue has assured 2,200 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members deployed to the state for the 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream II orientation course of adequate security. Alia gave the assurance on Friday during the swearing-in ceremony of the new corps held at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp at Wanune in the…
23 Jan
The Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has disbursed a total of N136 million in student loans to students of Joseph Sarwan Tarka University in Makurdi, Benue State. The latest disbursement will witness a total of 2,222 students of the institution receive financial support through the loan scheme. A statement by the media office of the…
17 Jan
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on January 12, 2025, carried out a successful raid on an illegal weapons manufacturing factory at Tse Akamabe Area of Kwande LGA, Benue State. According to a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the operation led to the recovery of nine locally fabricated pistols, one…
15 Jan
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Benue Command, on Wednesday, said that no fewer than 15 suspects, were arrested for various crimes during the yuletide. Mr. Michael Ejelikwu, the Public Relations Officer (PRO), for the command, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Makurdi. Ejelikwu who said that…
15 Jan
Benue Government has launched School Improvement Loans (SIL) scheme to support private school owners meet the set education standards in the state. Dr. Terna Francis, the Director-General, Bureau for Education Quality Assurance (BEQA), said at the launch of the scheme in Makurdi on Wednesday that the initiative is in partnership with NOVUS Microfinance Bank. He…
14 Jan
The Benue State Command of the Nigerian Police Force says it has uncovered two gun manufacturing factories in Guma and Kwande local government areas of the state. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Steve Yabanet, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Makurdi. Yabanet said that following the peaceful Christmas and New Year celebration,…
14 Jan
The Benue State Government has taken steps to address the incessant herders/farmers clashes and other challenges associated with livestock development. Dr. Aondoakaa Asambe, Director-General (D-G), Bureau of Livestock Development and Transboundary Animal Diseases Control, said on Tuesday in Makurdi that Gov. Hyacinth Alia is determined to ensure peaceful coexistence of farmers and herders. Asamabe said…
9 Jan
Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has assured stakeholders that farmers in the state are set to begin full-scale cultivation this year.
31 Dec
The Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, has signed the 2025 appropriation bill into law. The budget, tagged Human Capital Development, Food Security and the Digital Economy, is estimated to be N550,112,988,930.45. The signing, which coincided with the launching of the state’s much-anticipated 10-year Development Plan as well as the launch of the State Nutrition…
30 Dec
The Police Command in Benue has nabbed no fewer than 273 persons for alleged capital offences and charged 250 of them to court within eight
27 Dec
The Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, has expressed sadness over the attacks on the Anwase community in the Kwande Local Government Area of the state, where innocent residents were reportedly murdered in a gruesome manner by suspected herders. The governor expressed worry that such a heinous act persists in the state despite the efforts…
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The Edo Government has confirmed 13 deaths from outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. Dr Stephenson Ojeifo, Director of Public Health at the State Ministry of Health, gave the update during an interview with newsmen on Sunday in Benin. According to him, three cases of Mpox otherwise known as Monkeypox were also recorded, though…
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The African Union’s (AU) Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) champion and former president of the Republic of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, has commended President Bola Tinubu and Nigeria for taking steps towards the agreement’s implementation, including organizing a roundtable highlighting the AfCFTA Protocol. At the ongoing AU Assembly taking place in Addis Ababa, President Issoufou…
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The Police Command in Ekiti State has detained one Jimoh Abdulraman who brutally assaulted his wife, Mrs Taiwo Akintunde-Abdulraman in Ado-Ekiti in a viral social media video. This is contained in a by the command spokesman, Mr Sunday Abutu, on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. Abutu said that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Joseph Eribo, had…
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The Federal Government has vowed to investigate the alleged hoarding of relief materials meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) after stockpiles of supplies were discovered at the Durumi IDP camp in Abuja. The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons, Aliyu Ahmed, made the discovery during an inspection visit…
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Dr Peace Ighosewe, the Chief Medical Director of the Asaba Specialist Hospital (ASH), says she is working alongside her team to transform the hospital into a world class health care facility. Ighosewe spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) via telephone on Sunday following allegations of missing medical equipment, including a laparoscopic machine at…
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Sakinah Medical Outreach in collaboration with the Medics Across Continents, on Sunday, inaugurated a surgical initiative to perform free kidney stone removal and other surgeries for over 100 underprivileged Nigerians. Prof. Aisha Abubakar, the Vice Chairman of the outreach, said this at a news conference on the Nigeria Medical Mission 2025, in Abuja. She said…
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Amid growing tension in Osun over the resolve of the sacked local government chairmen on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to resume duties following the recent Court of Appeal judgment, the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday directed workers in all the 30 local government councils to withdraw their…
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Former Director-General of Nigeria Civil Aviation (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, has called on the federal government to sustain the training of aviation workers to ensure safer civil aviation in Nigeria. The former DGCA, from 2005 to 2013, maintained that the country was able to achieve the United States Federal Aviation Administration Category One status for…
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For nearly a decade, a father’s relentless fight for his daughter’s release finally came to an end as law enforcement officials enforced a court-backed judgment to reunite him with his child. The issues, which began with the tragic loss of his wife on July 17, 2015, spiraled into a complex legal battle involving multiple court…
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Amid reports of a robbery attack in a hall of residence at the University of Ibadan, the institution's management claims there was no robbery attack. On Saturday, some miscreants intruded into the Obafemi Awolowo Hall of Residence, removed bathroom light bulbs, and carted away phones belonging to students. Some students reported that one of them…