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Translate Makurdi varsity, other schools reopen in Benue amid strict enforcement of COVID-19 protocol On By Peter Duru – Makurdi Schools in Benue state Monday resume classes after the Christmas and New year break with most students and schools ensuring strict compliance with the COVID-19 protocol. When Vanguard visited selected schools in Makurdi the state capital including Government Girls’ College Makurdi, the Principal, Mrs.Tsav Nande said the school authority had ensured the clearing of grasses and the drainages as well as fumigation of the entire premises before ...

Late Gana’s loyalists raid Benue community, kill 3, raze houses On *Military arrests 2, recovers weapons By Peter Duru— MAKURDI Three persons were reportedly killed weekend, at Dyom village near Senga community in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, when armed men in military camouflage, said to be loyalists of late militia leader Terwase Agwaza also known as Gana, invaded. However, two of the armed men, who also razed several houses in the community, met their waterloo when men of the joint security operation in the state, codenamed Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, in a coun...

Armed bandits attack Benue patrol team, kill one, injure another On By Peter Duru, Makurdi A member of Benue Live stock Guard has been reportedly shot dead while an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, attached to the Agro-Rangers sustained injuries when suspected armed bandits ambushed them while on patrol at Mballagh Ward in the outskirts of Makurdi. The team was said to be on routine patrol of parts of Makurdi, the state capital on Friday when they came under severe attack at about 4 pm. Addressing the media on the development, Security Adviser to the state gov...

Benue govt distributes 15,000 chairs, tables to schools worth N433.5million On By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State Government has commenced the distribution of 15,000 plastic chairs and tables to Basic schools in the state valued at over N433.5million. The Executive Chairman of Benue State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Comrade Utse Joseph who flagged off the distribution at the Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology in Makurdi said the administration of Governor Samuel Ortom had earlier procured and distributed 10,000 plastic chairs and tables to Basic schools in the state. H...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged the people of the state to go for COVID-19 test to know their status, in order to