The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has provided healthcare and other humanitarian services to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Benue. The agency has so far supported 10 safe deliveries at the International Market IDP Camp in Makurdi, Benue, and attended to more than 368 pregnant women who came for antenatal care visits. UNFPA Humanitarian/Sexual and…
Gov Hyacinth Alia of Benue has assured of adequate security for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state. Alia gave the assurance on Tuesday during the closing ceremony of 2025 Batch A Stream II NYSC members’ orientation camp in Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area of the state. The governor said the state…
The management of Benue Links Nigeria Limited has confirmed the safe release of 10 abducted passengers and their driver. The company made the disclosure in a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr Johnson Ehi, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Makurdi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 10 passengers and…
Nigerian police have arrested 26 individuals suspected of carrying out a deadly assault in Yelewata, a village in Benue State, where 47 people were killed in a coordinated attack last week, according to the country’s Inspector General of Police. The police chief, Kayode Egbetokun, made the announcement during a press briefing held in Abuja on…
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BSEMA) has reported 15 live births and 122 pregnant women at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp recently established in Yelwata, Guma LGA, following renewed violence in the region. BSEMA’s Head of Administration, Mr Donald Komgbenda, said on Monday that 4,685 people had been registered at the camp, with…
Armed men have abducted passengers from a commercial bus operated by Benue Links Nigeria Ltd, in a brazen attack that has left 11 people and the driver missing. The incident took place on Sunday evening in Nigeria’s central Benue State. According to a statement by the Benue State Police Command, the vehicle was travelling from…
A leading Nigerian civil society group has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to request an official investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the deteriorating security crisis in Benue State. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), in a strongly worded letter made public on Saturday, urged the President to take decisive international…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has condemned the continuing violence in Benue State and criticised the failure to arrest those responsible for recent deadly attacks on farming communities. He has instructed security agencies to intensify efforts to apprehend the culprits, describing the killings as acts of terrorism. “No life should be lost over cattle,” Tinubu stated…
Pastor Paul Enenche, head of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, has made a passionate appeal to Nigerian authorities to act decisively in addressing the country’s worsening security crisis, following the recent massacre in Yelewata Town, Benue State. During his visit to the devastated community, Pastor Enenche described the attack on sleeping villagers—carried out in the early…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has made a high-level visit to Benue State, arriving on Wednesday for a day-long engagement amid heightened tensions and insecurity in the region. The President’s aircraft landed at Makurdi Airport at 1:40 p.m., where he was received by Governor Hyacinth Alia, Senator George Akume, and an array of North Central political…
