Multiple worshippers sustained injuries on Sunday, June 15, 2025, when a church building collapsed during a service in Jantaro community, Mutum-Biyu, headquarters of Gassol Local Government Area in Taraba State. The affected structure, identified as the United Methodist Church Nigeria (UMCN), reportedly caved in following a heavy downpour accompanied by strong winds. Although no fatalities […]

The Nigerian military deployed air surveillance over Makurdi, Benue State and its environs on Sunday in the wake of the killings in Yelwata and Daudu communities in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. According to online reports, the surveillance aircraft has been hovering over the capital city and neighbouring local government areas, such as […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for not visiting Benue state amid the incessant killings. In a post on X on Monday morning, Obi claimed it showed Tinubu does not value human lives. He pointed to incidents in India and South Africa, as […]

Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, United States, Prof. Moses Ochonu said the presidential statement on the recent Benue killings betrays a lack of understanding of the particularities of the attacks. The socio-political commentator was reacting to a Sunday statement by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. Onanuga […]

Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has asked the Federal Government to shun long talk and limp arrests and hunt down killers of innocent citizens in Benue State. In a statement issued on Monday, Fani-Kayode said the killers aim to destabilise the country and cause a civil war. On Friday night, terrorists in commercial […]

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has berated the Federal Government over the recent dastardly killings in Benue. On Friday night, more than 200 persons, including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), five security personnel, women and children, were killed in a fresh coordinated attack by suspected herdsmen on Yelewata and Daudu communities […]

A former presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, has criticised some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for ignoring Vice President Kashim Shettima during an event organised to endorse President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term in 2027. The endorsement meeting, which held on Sunday in the North-East, turned chaotic after key party figures, including […]

President Bola Tinubu has issued a firm directive to Nigeria’s security chiefs, instructing them to implement his earlier orders to restore peace and order in violence-stricken areas, with particular emphasis on Benue State. Tinubu also tasked the governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, with the urgent responsibility of convening reconciliation meetings among the conflicting groups […]