It was indeed a horrible experience. An experience you wouldn’t even wish your bitterest enemy to go through. We thank God for miraculously shielding us from the barrage of bullets fired at us. We had set out that fateful day of November 6 en-route Uhiele-Ekpoma, in company of nine other priests. Two priests to a […]
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THE killings in Barakin-Ladi and Riyom local government areas of Plateau State took a frightening dimension on Saturday following gruesome killings of over one hundred people by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. TribuneOnline learnt that the unfortunate incident occurred at about 11:00 pm on Saturday to the early hour of Sunday when gunmen in their large numbers invaded villages in Barakin […]
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Following its fact-finding visit to Benue State on the 19th and 20th of January 2018, the Nigerian Bar Association held a meeting with the Benue State Branch of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in its Abuja Headquarters on January 27, 2018. They said that their association was established in 1986 with the Sultan of […]
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A COLONY OF ANY TYPE AND IN ALL PERIODS OF HISTORY AND A SETTLEMENT ARE INSEPARABLE FROM EACH OTHER To us here in Nigeria, a colony is nothing new. The colony of Lagos established by the British in 1861 has familiarised us to it. But our acquaintance with it goes much further back to the […]
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Human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has claimed that the Muhammadu Buhari administration knows the identity of the suspected Fulani Herdsmen carrying out incessant killings in the country but is lackadaisical about bring them to book. Falana, who appeared on Channel TV’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Friday, slated the current government, which prides itself in […]
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“…I believe in safety first, if you see anybody holding arms and wants to attack, please don’t waste time”. These were the orders from Konongo Divisional police commander, Superintendent Bossman Ohene-Boadi. He was speaking to the about 200 combined military and police force deployed to evacuate the Fulani nomads from the Asante Akyem North […]
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The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the […]
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I would have loved to wish you a happy new year, but I am not a hypocrite. I am not happy and nobody in Benue is happy today, because many of our citizens did not have a happy new 2018. Genocide on citizens of Nigeria has escalated in earnest in Benue State. This genocide has […]
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This year Alone, 50 people have been killed in Benue, 17 in Rivers, more than 100 in southern Kaduna and 14 in Borno Mosque by suicide bomber. Who do we blame. Mr. President or the governors? Simeon Nwakaudu gives his opinion. I have come to the sad conclusion that the APC Federal Government considers the […]
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Suspected armed Fulani herdsmen fired at the Alpha Jet and EC 135 Helicopter deployed in Adamawa State by the military in an attempt to bring it down. The Alpha Jet and EC 135 Helicopter were deployed by the Nigerian Air Force in Numan and Demsa Local Government Areas of Adamawa State following the clashes and […]
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