Government offices, commercial banks, markets and schools were closed in the state capital in observance of the work-free day earlier declared by the State Government in honour of the victims.
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The Special Adviser to Governor Umaru Al-Makura on Security Matters, Mohammed Adeka, disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday in Lafia.
The attackers invaded five villages in Guma and Logo Local Governments where they killed 73 persons and displaced 50,000 others.
He thinks that we should understand by now that he means well, that we should see the sorrow in his face and sense the pain in his heart.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Emmanuel Shior, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Wednesday.
Saraki, while responding to the situation in Benue State, especially, re-emphasized his belief that the killings are clear indications that the security architecture in the country has inherent faults and needs to be refurbished.
Amile said: “I am in physical pains from gunshot injuries, but such pains don’t hurt me like the inability to ascertain the fate of my four wives and 18 children.”
Governor Samuel Ortom announced government’s decision to hold a mass burial for the deceased at a stakeholders meeting in Makurdi on Wednesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered Idris to move to Benue State to restore law and order and forestall the crisis from escalating.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this after the 2018 inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ortom made this known on Wednesday in Makurdi at a stakeholders meeting to discuss the security situation in the State.
The armed gang members were arrested at Arufu, a boundary town between Taraba and Benue States, a military intelligence source told told PRNigeria on Tuesday.
Confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, said a police patrol team sent to the area was attacked late on Monday.
A civil society organisation, Seventh Force, in a letter to the President, dated January 8, 2018, also called for the immediate sack of the Chief Medical Director of FMC, Makurdi, Benue State, Dr. Peter Inunduh.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting was convened by the Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulralman Dambazau, at the minister’s conference room.
The organization also urged Prince Al Hussein to “speak out strongly and condemn the killings apparently by herdsmen in the country, and make an official visit to Nigeria with special rapporteurs with relevant mandates to discuss the killings and concrete actions to end the killings and ultimately bring about significant improvements in the lives of farmers and their families as well as other citizens affected by violence across the country”.
Agbakor, who made the call on Saturday in Makurdi, while interacting with journalists, said the situation where herdsmen kill, rape, maim people and destroy their properties was unacceptable.
The Executive Secretary of SEMA, Emmanuel Shior, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Friday that the agency had opened four camps for the displaced persons in the affected areas.
Inunduh disclosed this in Makurdi during the test run and training of staff to man the dialysis machines, the construction of endoscopy suites and delivery of the colonoscope and gastroscope machines.
Buhari stated this on Thursday in Makurdi when he paid a visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State over the killings in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas of the state.