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Vanguard News Translate Home » News » Benue killings: Tribal leaders urge Presidential spokesman to retract his statement, apologize to grieving Benue families Benue killings: Tribal leaders urge Presidential spokesman to retract his statement, apologize to grieving Benue families On By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Chairman of Benue socio-cultural organisations and President General of Mzough U Tiv, MUT, worldwide, Chief Iorbee Ihagh has asked the Senior Special Assistant to t...

Bothered by the silence of the presidency on the unending attacks on Benue communities by suspected armed herdsmen militia, Benue youths

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Again, armed herders kill five in two separate attacks on Benue communities On By Peter Duru, Makurdi No fewer than five persons have been reportedly killed in two separate attacks on Imandeakpu and Mbatyough Saghev communities in Guma and Gwer West Local Government Areas of Benue state, respectively. Saturday Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the attack on Imandeakpu along the Gbajimba Federal University of Agriculture, FUAM-Gbajimba left four persons dead and several others in...

Vanguard News Translate Home » News » PDP, Ohanaeze, MBF, PANDEF back UK’s call on FG to amend Electoral Act PDP, Ohanaeze, MBF, PANDEF back UK’s call on FG to amend Electoral Act On By Anayo Okoli, Peter Duru, Davies Iheamnachor & Dirisu Yakubu THE United Kingdom, UK, has urged Nigeria to ensure quick passage and enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill currently pending before the National Assembly. UK’s Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, who gave the advi...

Benue receives UNESCO Certificate of Inscription of Kwagh-Hir theater On By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue state government has received the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, Certificate of Inscription of Kwagh-Hir theater. Making the presentation Thursday in Makurdi, Executive Secretary of National Institute for Cultural Orientation, NICO, Mr. Muhammad Yahuza explained that the nomination of Kwagh-Hir was adopted during the 14th Session of the Inter-Governme...

By Anayo Okoli, Peter Duru, Davies Iheamnachor & Dirisu Yakubu THE United Kingdom, UK, has urged Nigeria to ensure quick passage and enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill currently pending before the National Assembly. UK’s Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, in Abuja, said that passing the amendment bill would build more confidence in the country’s electoral process. Duddridge’s counsel attracted plaudit...

Views: Visits 11 By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, has described as “wise counsel” the advice by the UK government urging the Nigerian Government to pass into law an electoral act amendment bill to protect its democracy. National President of MBF, Dr Bitrus Pogu is reaction told Vanguard in a Makurdi that the advice had been one of the important agitations by well-meaning Nigerians. “That is what we have been fighting for. We have been fighting f...

2 more Greenfield varsity students killed; bandits insist on N800m ransom On …Police exchange fire with bandits, arrest 5 in Zaria …As bandits abduct 2 women, wound pupils, abandon children due to fire power of security agents …Tension in Nasarawa over attacks, 50,000 desert ancestral homes …Take refuge in three locations …Niger gov cries out, says more than 50 villages deserted; over 3000 IDPs in Minna …Buhari will deal with terrorists, criminal gangs, APC assures Nigerians By Wol...

By Peter Duru, Makurdi No fewer than seven Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, were feared dead after suspected armed herdsmen militia attacked the Abagena IDPs camp located in the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue state capital. Vanguard gathered that the unprovoked attack which took place today (Tuesday) at about 2 am left several of the traumatized IDPs with serious injuries.