Kano Pillars management has handed down a three-match ultimatum to the Coach Ibrahim Musa-led technical crew to improve or face sanction, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Hundreds of pensioners yesterday besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity.

Sir: Recently, the students at Benue State University Makurdi registered their anger through a protest over a grading system that has been upgraded from five points to four points grading where the third class level of a degree won’t longer be recognised

Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State said that the state would implement the Ruga settlement scheme in spite of its suspension by the Federal Government.

The Benue government on Monday reeled out the achievements of Governor Samuel Ortom’s administration in the last four years as part of activities to mark the governor’s 58th birthday. Mr Tahav Agerzua, Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Information Communication Technology (ICT), in a statement in Makurdi, identified the governor’s political sagacity as…

Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue says he is not perturbed by INEC’s declaration of Saturday’s governorship election in the sate as inconclusive. Ortom made his feelings known on Monday in Makurdi while interacting with newsmen. He said that he was not bothered by the declaration because he believed he would still lead during the supplementary…

Collation of results for the Saturday’s governorship election for Plateau began on Sunday in Jos. Declaring the exercise open, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mallam Halilu Pai, welcomed all party representatives present and expressed optimism that it would end successfully The News Agency of Niegria (NAN) reports that the collation officer for the state is Prof.…

Mr Emmanuel Jime, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue said the high percentage of votes won by President Muhammadu Buhari across the state has confirmed his popularity with the masses despite the campaign of calumny against him (Buhari) and the APC. Jime told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on…

Benue State Police Command yesterday paraded 17 suspects for violent crimes ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, rape and cultism. Commissioner of Police, Omololu Bishi, explained that members of a deadly robbery gang, who operated along Otukpo-Enugu axis, were among the paraded suspects. He said the gang had on January 18, this year, kidnapped a woman…

Benue State House of Assembly has suspended six council chairmen and two vice chairmen for three months over alleged gross misconduct, misappropriation of funds and abuse of office. The chairmen are Austin Okwoche (Oju), Mrs. Juliana Audu (Makurdi), Terdoo Kenti (Kwande) and his vice, Andrew Orvande, as well as Francis Ogwuche (Okpokwu). Others are Mrs.…

Governor Samuel Ortom has lamented the opposition of the senator representing Benue North West, George Akume, to the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law 2017, revealing that the lawmaker asked him not to assent to it. Ortom made the disclosure yesterday at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi during a joint courtesy call on him…

University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAM) Coach, Priscilla Vande, whose team at the weekend won the maiden Higher Institutions Football League (HIFL), has been appointed Team Nigeria’s coach to the FISU football championship slated for Naples, Italy next year. She will coach a team made up of the best players from the HIFL to the world…