Tag Archives: Benue

Dr. Aime, a pastor with the Living Faith Church and a lecturer at the Akaweh Torkula Polytechnic, Makurdi, Benue State, was brutally beaten by an irate mob after a man raised false alarm that his genital was stolen.     The incident happened on Wednesday morning, November 8, 2023, when …

An unidentified woman has disappeared with a six-year-old girl in RCM Primary School Tionsha in Makurdi, Benue State.   The pupil identified as Agatha Ngohide Apenanibo, was lured by the unknown woman while playing with her friends during the break period.   The headmistress of the school, Mrs. Grace Torkuma, …

A Makurdi Chief Magistrate’s Court on Friday, November 3, ordered one Matthew Bem to be remanded in a correction centre in Makurdi for allegedly killing his wife, Mngusonum Bem.     The 42-year-old farmer, who lives at Korinya Settlement in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue, was charged with culpable …

A former chairman of Ukum Local Council, Iorwashima Erukaa, in Benue State, who was abducted a few weeks ago has died in kidnappers’ den despite ransom payment.    80-year-old Erukaa was kidnapped from his home at Tse-Erukaa in Zaki Biam, the headquarters of Ukum Local Council on September 23, 2023.    …

The Management Committee of the Benue State University, Makurdi, has suspended all 200 to 600 level medical students of the institution for one month.      Medical students from the institution had last Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest to the Government House over alleged arbitrary withdrawal of their classmates, lack …

No fewer than 20 persons have been feared killed on Sunday, Oct. 29, in a renewed clash between the people of Yache-Ijiegu community in Yala LGA of Cross River State and the Tiv settlers from Benue State. Both communities have suffered losses over lingering boundary clashes. Women and children are …

The Benue State Police Command has rescued three children from their abductors in Rivers State.     Recall that two siblings, Philomena Kpaakpa, 6, and Benedict Kpaakpa, 2, were abducted from their mother’s kiosk in front of their house in Makurdi in September 2023 by an unknown woman.      …

A man has reportedly stabbed his wife to death in the Korinya community of Konshisha Local Government Area in Benue State.   Confirming the incident, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Catherine Anene said the man had a disagreement with his wife and it degenerated to him stabbing her. This …

Spokesperson of the Benue State Police Command, SP Catherine Anene, has mourned the Otukpo Divisional Police Officer, CSP. John Adikwu, who was killed during Friday’s deadly bank robbery in Otukpo.      The PPRO in a post on X, vowed that the killer armed robbers will pay.   “We fight …

Four robbery suspects linked to the Benue bank robbery which led to the death of some police officers were on Saturday, October 21, arrested by Joint Security Forces comprising officers of the Nigeria Police Force, and the Nigerian Armed Forces, amongst others, along Otukpo-Taraku road, Benue State.    A police …