The former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, is currently in the Makurdi custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, following an invitation. Ortom arrived at the Makurdi zonal office of the anti-graft agency, located at Alor Gordon Street, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. It was gathered that the former governor was invited to […]
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Three kinsmen of Benue State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, have been murdered by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. It was gathered that the three, two males and a female, were killed around 5pm in the evening after the gunmen laid an ambush and blocked the Lordye- Gbajimba road in Guma Local Government Area of […]
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Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s tagging of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP as a failure. It could be recalled that President Buhari, during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, said what comes to his mind when the acronym, PDP is mentioned, is failure. In his reaction, Governor […]
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Tuesday, said that the silence of the Federal Government to killings by foreign militia herdsmen is an agenda of ethic cleansing and continuation of the 1804 Usman Danfodio Jihadist Movement across the country. Ortom, who made the remark at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi, faulted the alleged FG’s […]
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Governor, Samuel Ortom of Benue state has said the incessant killings in the state means that Nigeria does not have a government. Ortom lamented that over 70 people have been murdered in two weeks in Makurdi Local Government Area. He spoke to protesters on Tuesday at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Abagena village. […]
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Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has accused the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, of planning to eliminate him. Ortom said the leadership of MACBAN targeted him and were planning to eliminate him. He spoke after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, on Tuesday. Governor Ortom disclosed that […]
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Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has appealed to the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and his Benue State counterpart, Gov. Samuel Ortom, to give a little thought to affected traders of the infernos that engulfed the popular Mile Three market and two other major markets within the […]
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The governorship election petition tribunals of Benue and Bauchi states on Wednesday affirmed the election victories of governors Samuel Ortom and Bala Mohammed respectively. The duo’s elections were upheld in separate proceedings in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, and Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, where the different tribunals sat. In Benue, the All Progressives Congress […]
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Abraham Gbileeka, the General Manager of Benue Urban Development Board, says the board has marked no fewer than 300 buildings that contravene law for demolition in Makurdi. He said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Makurdi that most of the affected structures were built on water channels. “It’s […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday formally welcomed Senate President Bukola Saraki, Governor of Sokoto Aminu Tambuwal, Samuel Ortom of Benue, former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to South Africa, Ahmed Ibeto and Sen. Dino Melaye as they attended the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja. All the […]
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