Ortom gave the advice during the inauguration of the commissioners in Makurdi.
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Ortom, in a speech at the PDP Expanded Caucus meeting in Makurdi, promised to base his selection on merit, adding that those appointed could be “sacked the next day”, if found wanting in the discharge of their duties.
The people were killed on Sunday at a Church service in Okokolo Village of Agatu Local Government Area of the state.
Senator Emmanuel Orker-Jev who moved the motion on Thursday in plenary urged his colleagues to take steps that would end incessant petrol tanker explosion in the country.
The All Progressives Congress in Benue has urged security agencies to investigate the alleged assassination of their member, Jasper Dzughgba.
The Federal Road Safety Corps in Benue said that Monday’s tanker explosion at Ahumbe, near Aliade in Gwer East Local Government Area of the state, claimed 35 lives, including that of a pregnant woman and her child.
Reacting to the incident in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari decried the unfortunate loss of lives in the avoidable incident.
The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari has begun consultations for an inclusive stakeholder committee that will thoroughly interrogate issues that fuel communal conflicts across the country.
Forty-year-old Ugwoueke Euphemia has narrated how she become a prostitute and unwittingly member of a robbery gang.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue, while inaugurating the distribution of the inputs in Makurdi, warned against the diversion of the consumables.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has offered N50 million to victims of the Tuesday fire incident that gutted down parts of the Makurdi modern market.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue on Tuesday swore in chairmen and members of local government caretaker committees with a call on them to live in their domains.
No fewer than 3,641 people have been killed in Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Zamfara States by insurgents.
The former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, on Monday, said the reelection of President Mohammadu Buhari was a gift to Nigeria at the moment.
Rep. John Dyegh, a member of the House of Representatives contesting for the office of Speaker of the 9th Assembly, says he is still in the race.
The Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal in Benue on Saturday set June 24 for definite hearing of the state governorship petition.
The Speaker of the assembly, Titus Uba, disclosed this on Monday in Makurdi during the valedictory session to mark its dissolution.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has rejected suggestions in some social media platforms that he was against the granting of autonomy to local governments.
The Operation Whirl Stroke says it has destroyed 38 militia camps and recovered 178 assorted weapons in its one year of operation.
Prof. James Ayatse, the Tor Tiv, has called for the integration of crop and livestock farming to checkmate the clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the country.