Estimated Reading Time: 1Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Saturday said it was time to stop crying over the unabated attacks unleashed on people of the state by marauding herdsmen. Ortom stated this at the Banquet Hall of the Government House during a media parley to mark his second year[Read More…]
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Update: Benue Governor confirms attack after gunmen opened fire on his convoy – fingers Miyetti Allah
Estimated Reading Time: 1 Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has confirmed the attack on him by suspected militia herdsmen in his farm at Tyo-mu, along Makurdi – Gboko road earlier on Saturday. Ortom while briefing journalists at the Benue Peoples House after the incident said he was inspecting his farm[Read More…]
Benue State Governor wants Buhari to avert a second civil war in Nigeria
Estimated Reading Time: 2Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to tackled the clashes between farmers and herders in order to avert a second civil war. Ortom made the appeal at a press conference in Abuja Thursday, saying as a patriotic citizen and one of[Read More…]
“You can’t disarm me and arm a Fulani man” – Benue Governor says the the Federal Government is biased, unfair to other Nigerians
Estimated Reading Time: 3Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has criticised the President Muhammadu Buhari for his lethargy and failure to call Fulani herdsmen terrorising Nigerians to order. He said Buhari is the President of Nigeria not the President of the Fulani tribe where he hails from. Ortom also noted that[Read More…]
Just In: Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has tested positive for COVID-19
Estimated Reading Time: 1Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has tested positive for the dreaded COVID-19. The announcement was made on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase. Recall that many of the governor’s aides which included his personal physician, aide de camp, orderly, permanent secretaries among others recently tested[Read More…]
“The process of the amnesty programme was known to the security operatives” – Benue Governor, about the killing of Terwase Akwaza, known as Gana
Estimated Reading Time: 1Samuel Ortom, Benue governor, says Terwase Akwaza, better known as Gana, who is alleged to be the most wanted criminal in the state, was intercepted by the army on his way to surrender. Speaking with journalists on Tuesday after receiving some repentant criminals in the state, Ortom[Read More…]
Governor Ortom says Water bill, plan to take land for herdsmen
Estimated Reading Time: 2Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Saturday called on the National Assembly to reject the National Water Resources Bill in the interest of the country. Read NewsWireNGR analysis of the bill, Aggressive Land Grab Meets Pork Barrel: Analysis of the National Water Resources Bill 2020. Ortom said[Read More…]
