Showing posts with label Benue State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benue State. Show all posts

Monday, 24 July 2017

The plight of Indigenous Igbos in Benue State. Why Nnamdi Kanu wants lower Benue carved into Biafra

The plight of Indigenous Igbos in Benue State
Nnamdi Kanu recently requested for indigenous Igbos in lower Benue to be drafted into Biafran map
Igbo Plight: Agony and Neglect of Igbos in Benue State

They are torn between two worlds. Being of the Igbo stock, their soul is in the Southeast, but their bodies and homes are in Benue State, in the North central. That is not all. In Benue, where they are quartered, more for political considerations than for cultural reasons, they lament their lack: no roads, no water, hardly any sign of modern life.

Friday, 27 May 2016

Terrorism in full glare! Fulani herdsmen takes over the home of a Nigerian sitting governor

Terrorism in full glare! Fulani herdsmen takes over the home of a Nigerian sitting governor
Few days after ordering Fulani herdsmen out of his state, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, yesterday, disclosed that his country home has been sacked by Fulani terrorists, who he said had killed over 50 of his kinsmen with over 200 hectares of his rice farm razed.