Benue Press

Unknown gunmen have reportedly murdered Boniface Okoloho, the All Progressives Congress chairman in Ohimini LGA of Benue State. It was gathered that the late Okoloho was reportedly shot and killed yesterday by some yet-to-be-identified assailants, on his way home from a party function. Confirming the sad development, the All Progressives Congress Governorship (APC) candidate in […]

The national youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the north central zone of Nigeria, Comrade Terver Aginde, has predicted that the candidate of the party, Emmanuel Jime, would defeat the incumbent governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, during the governorship election on March 2. Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, he […]

Ad-hoc staff posted to Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State for the postponed election, on Saturday, staged a protest to ask for their transport allowance from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It was gathered that the protesters besieged INEC office in the local government area at 8:00am to demand for their payment as […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Benue State has confirmed that some hoodlums in military uniforms attacked one of the commission’s vehicles. The Benue State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, disclosed this while addressing journalists on the preparation for the Saturday elections on Thursday. He said the vehicle carrying non-sensitive materials to Logo […]

Benue State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Governor Samuel Ortom, in an interview explains to JOHN CHARLES why he has been talking about herdsmen attacks in the state The opposition parties in the state have accused you of cashing in on herdsmen attacks in your campaigns. What is your reaction? I am doing […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, Tuesday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, United Bank of Africa, UBA and Fidelity Bank to jointly pay the sum of N100 million to the Benue State government for freezing its accounts last year. Delivering judgement in the suit number FHC/MKD/CS/46/2018 filed by the Benue State […]

Benue State governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Mr. Hinga Biam, has said the state leadership of the party was yet to sanction the adoption of President Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate in the coming general election. National Working Committee, NWC, of SDP had, last weekend, adopted Buhari as its preferred candidate in […]

A former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Jerry Agada, on Saturday, described as untrue insinuations in some quarters that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, condemned the anti- open grazing law in Benue State during a live television interview. Agada, who spoke in Makurdi, said those making such insinuations failed […]

According to the report, Senator Waku died on Sunday, February 3 at the National Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. Born on June 12, 1946, Senator Waku was elected senator representing Benue north-west district at the National Assembly in 1999, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A native of Waku village […]