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Nigeria Must End The Payment Of Crazy Pensions To Ex-Govs

Nigeria Must End The Payment Of Crazy Pensions To Ex-Govs

May 22, 2023 3:27 am

In a manner reminiscent of a bazaar, virtually all the Governors in Nigeria who are set to leave office are currently ransacking their state coffers to empty them. Beyond the ongoing looting, they have conclusively put up systems that will ensure that they live off their poor states for the rest of their lives. It is sad and regrettably painful that Nigerian Governors through their state houses of assembly are hell-bent on impoverishing their states through the payment of mindboggling, obnoxious, and outrageous sums of money to themselves for life! 

What is perplexing and deeply confusing is how these Governors …

Benue Killings Ortom Gets Fresh Offer From Buhari

Benue Killings: Ortom Gets Fresh Offer From Buhari

October 23, 2022 12:54 am

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has once again reached out to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, pledging the full support of the Federal administration with regard to assisting him and the people of Benue with resources to investigate the latest herder-farmer killings.

In a statement issued Saturday through his spokesman, Garba Shehu, the President pointed out that it was ‘unacceptable for lives to be taken by herdsmen and farmers alike.’

Buhari, who also used the opportunity to commiserate with the people of Benue State, declared that politics must be set aside to bridge divisions in the interests of …

PDP Crisis Ayu Launching Smear Campaign Against Me — Ortom

PDP Crisis: Ayu Launching Smear Campaign Against Me — Ortom

October 10, 2022 3:14 am

The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has alleged that the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, was presently mounting smear campaigns and blackmail against his office and person over his support for the call on him to resign and save the party further crisis.

The Governor made this allegation Sunday when he appeared before the kinsmen of the embattled National Chairman who are members of the PDP, under the auspices of the Jemgbagh PDP Elders Forum comprising leaders from  Gboko, Tarka, and Buruku Local Government Areas, LGAs.

According to a statement issued …

Terrorists Are Not Giving Us Breathing Space – Benue CAN

Terrorists Are Not Giving Us Breathing Space – Benue CAN

September 25, 2022 8:12 am

The Benue State Chapter Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Akpen Leva, on Saturday, reminded the people in the state that the killer herdsmen have not stopped their unprovoked attacks on the people of the state.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that suspected terrorists had on Thursday last week, killed 15 people in the Logo Local Government Area of the state.

Reacting in a statement on Sunday, Akpen Leva, through his Director of Media, Samuel Tyav, warned residents in the state not to sleep with their two eyes closed since dare devil terrorists are not ready …

Herdsmen Murder Three People In Gov Ortom’s Hometown

Herdsmen Murder Three People In Gov Ortom’s Hometown

September 20, 2022 6:46 am

Reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has it that suspected herders have allegedly killed no fewer than three people in Ngban community in the Guma Local Government Area, the hometown of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that over the last three weeks, no fewer than 13 people were killed at Tse Numgbera, Umella, Yogbo, and Ukohol communities all in Guma LGA.

The latest attack, according to residents, took place around 4 pm on Monday, when suspected herders invaded the Ngbea area under Nyiev council ward of the …

Herdsmen And Terrorists Have Common Agenda – Ortom Tells USA

Herdsmen And Terrorists Have Common Agenda – Ortom Tells USA

September 7, 2022 5:29 am

The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has alleged that a good number of Fulani herdsmen are currently operating in collaboration with terrorist groups to sustain their attacks on the state.

The governor made the allegation on Wednesday while speaking in an interview with Epoch Times TV in Washington, DC, United States of America, USA.

Ortom during the interview anchored by Douglas Burton, pointed out that from the highly placed information available to him, terrorist groups including the Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP, and armed Fulani herdsmen are working for one agenda.

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PDP Tiv Youths Warn Ortom, Wike Over Plot To Remove Ayu

PDP: Tiv Youths Warn Ortom, Wike Over Plot To Remove Ayu

August 23, 2022 6:45 am

A youth group identified as Tiv Youth Council Worldwide has warned Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, his Rivers State counterpart Nyesom Wike and some other aggrieved members of the Peoples democratic party (PDP) against their plot to remove Senator Iyorchai Ayu as chairman of the party.

The youths said the governors and their associates’ insistence on the removal of Ayu as the only ground for peace talks between the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and Wike was in bad faith

In a swift reaction, special adviser to governor Ortom on media and publicity Terver Akase asserted that there is no …

Miyetti Allah Drags Ortom To ICC Over Seizure Of Cow

Miyetti Allah Drags Ortom To ICC Over Seizure Of Cows

August 14, 2022 2:37 am

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, popularly known as Miyetti Allah, has announced that Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, will face justice at the ICC for ‘violating the rights of Fulani herders’ in his state.

The National Secretary-General of the Fulani socio-cultural group, Mr Saleh Alhassan, also said Miyetti Allah had approached the International Criminal Court of Justice, Hague, to file a suit against Ortom for seizing over 25,000 cows belonging to members of the group and detaining over 4,000 herders.

Ortom had, after inaugurating the state’s Community Volunteer Guards, said he had secured the conviction of over 400 Fulani …

Panic As Gunmen Kidnap Catholic Priest In Benue

Panic As Gunmen Kidnap Catholic Priest In Benue

July 8, 2022 5:51 am

A Catholic priest serving in Benue State, Rev. Fr. Peter Amodu, was on Thursday evening kidnapped by some yet-to-be-identified gunmen sparking panic in the area in Benue State.

Fr. Amodu, who hails from Agbaha Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, was said to have been kidnapped on yesterday,  along Okwungaga-Otukpo highway.

Sources from the area who spoke to reporters on Friday morning pointed out that nothing had yet been heard from him or his abductors concerning his whereabouts almost 24 hours after his abduction.

A statement signed by the Diocesan Chancellor, Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, Rev. Fr. …

Challenge Anti-Open Grazing Law With Facts - Ortom

Challenge Anti-Open Grazing Law With Facts – Ortom

June 24, 2022 7:05 am

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has charged those who believe that his administration made mistakes in enacting the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law to speak against it publicly in the state and see the reaction of the people.

Governor Ortom gave the challenge on Thursday after receiving the award as Best Governor in Nigeria in the area of security given to him by the ‘Daily Independent’ newspaper and other awards.

He said the law, which was enacted as a solution to the perennial clashes between herdsmen and farmers has the endorsement of traditional and religious leaders, Christians and …

Catholic Priest Suspended For Joining Benue Guber Race

May 22, 2022 2:40 pm

Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, a well known catholic priest in Benue State got has gotten a suspension from the Catholic Diocese of Gboko in Benue State has suspended a priest, for joining the governorship race in the state.

Alia who had been warned against the move had gone ahead to pick up the ₦50m governorship form of the All Progressives Congress and had been cleared by the ruling party to participate alongside 11 successful aspirants in the party’s primary.

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But the Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Gboko, William Avenya, in …

Ortom Commends Buhari For Directive To Shoot Anyone With AK-47

Ortom Announces ₦50m Bounty For Info On Criminal, Gana

July 14, 2020 4:27 pm

Governor Samuel Ortom has called on people of Benue State to always provide timely and useful information to security agents to help in combating kidnapping, cultism and other crimes.

Ortom made the call at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi while briefing the press after the State Security Council meeting he presided over.

He commended security operatives in the state for their proactive and gallant efforts in ensuring peace and vowed that criminal elements operating in the state must be decimated.

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Governor Ortom commended some of the newly sworn-in …

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