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Daily Trust gathered that the incident, which happened a fortnight ago, left residents of the rural community in shock.

He was killed by a gang of young men in Gboko on Sunday. Ahu and other ward officials were training party members for the APC registration and revalidation exercise. The assailants stormed the venue with clubs, cutlasses, and attacked Ahu. APC Publicity Secretary in Benue State, James Orgunga, confirmed the incident. He disclosed that the ward chairman sustained serious injuries and died at a public hospital in Gboko. The Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) of the Benue Command, Kate Anene, s...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman in Gboko South ward, Tersoo Ahu, has been murdered. He was killed by a gang of young men in Gboko on Sunday.

Chaos Before long, the situation became chaotic and resulted in a free for all during which the deceased was killed. The acting State Publicity Secretary of the party, James Ornguga, confirmed the killing of the ward chairman, saying, “Mr. Tersoo Ahu, APC Ward Chairman for Gboko South was murdered today (Sunday) at the venue of our training for Membership Registration and Revalidation Exercise. “We strongly condemn this act of violence in our party and we ask security agents to arrest the k...

Nigeria - Chidinma Ikechukwu Omah, a patent medicine dealer, has lost his life, after he was set ablaze by his 18-year-old girlfriend, Esther Alex, at Wadata, M

We won’t submit to terrorists, Ortom vows Gunmen have again attacked Agbougul Community in Makurdi Council of Benue State, killing a lawyer, Moses Udam; his wife, and a blind septuagenarian, Nyikor Mazugu, in their homes. x When The Guardian, on the entourage of Governor Samuel Ortom, visited the scene of the incident yesterday morning, locals disclosed that the bandits also vandalised two vehicles belonging to the lawyer and his wife and left two sons of ...

Witnesses said the gunmen believed to be herders had struck the vicinity at 11:20pm and killed their victims whose homes were situated at the edge of the community bordering a vast swampy untilled field. Eldest son of the deceased octogenarian, Abraham, told our correspondent, that the gunmen first struck the house of the lawyer before invading his father’s thatched roof compound. “Immediately, they (gunmen) entered into my father’s compound, they went straight and shot my father in the c...

By Thu Dec 10 2020 A casual worker with Gwer East Local Government Council in Benue State has committed suicide by setting himself ablaze over alleged untold hardship. Daily Trust gathered that the deceased, Aondona Yaga, locked himself inside his house in Aliade, the headquarters of the local government, before setting the fire at about 8:00 am on Tuesday. The incident happened barely 24hours after a similar incident in which a lady set her boyfriend on fire in Gboko area of the state. It was ...