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Over 90 killed by herdsmen in Benue after mass burial, Monitoring Group claims

This claims comes admist the military debunking the allegation, touting the success of the armed forces since the commencement of the exercise in the state. Team leader of the group Solomon Adodo, who made the call while addressing newsmen in Makurdi on Wednesday, stated that after monitoring the Exercise Ayem Akpatuma in Benue, IHRMG’s preliminary report showed that Fulani herdsmen were still engaged in killings, torching houses, looting and ethnic cleansing across the state. “The team noticed that killings have continued unabated since the mass burial on the 11th of January, 2018,” the group reports. “ From our findings, over 90 people have silently been killed in parts of Benue State since January 11.” Adodo noted that in spite of the launch of the Military Exercise in the state, attacks on communities by the herdsmen have increased between January and March. He called on the military to reassess its exercise in the state as well as help enforce its anti open grazing law....

Northern leaders inaugurate committees on 2019 election, restructuring

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The Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly (NLSA) has inaugurated five standing committees to strategise on a peaceful conduct of the 2019 elections, restructuring and security in the North. NLSA’s Chairman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, who performed the inauguration on Wednesday in Abuja, said that NLSA was a political but non-partisan organisation. Yakasai, who is also the Chairman, NLSA’s Steering Committee, listed the sub-committees as Security, Political, Northern unity, Elections and Restructuring. Northern leaders had in a meeting co-convened by Dr. Bello Mohammed, former Minister of Defence, Sen. Ibrahim Mantu, former Deputy Senate President and Sen. Paul Wampana, on Feb. 10, discussed on prevailing challenges in the North. The meeting, which was convened under the name Northern Elders and Stakeholders’ Conversation, set up five committees while the name of the body was afterwards, changed to NLSA. Yakasai said that contrary to reports in the media, the body was not crea...

“We don’t have external aggression but an internal one” Mr Fayose

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According to him, government’s failure to deal once and for all with the country’s many security challenges, and its resorting to paying out ransoms, indicates that the problem is an internal one caused by people who are profiting from it. “We don’t have external aggression but an internal one,” said the outspoken governor. “We are calling on the international community to look beyond Boko Haram or herdsmen. The international community should come for fact-finding and dig deeper into the killings in Nigeria. This is beyond what Boko Haram or herdsmen are doing. It is more of what the government has failed to do on time. Nigerians are becoming helpless. Benue people need international intervention, they need support. We want to believe that President has lost it. His approach has been cosmetic. “How would you want us to believe that the Nigerian Army cannot engage herdsmen, cannot engage Boko Haram. It seems that the reason for the coming of President Bubari to secure Nigeria...

King of Oginigba cries out

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Hrh GB odum,the paramount ruler of Oginigba cries out!!! We are been marginalised because they said am apc o Our roads have been abandoned in Oginigba community and no appointment from wike's government that we are been carried among yet companys in our community provide 70% of rivers state's income...