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In Nigeria Herdsmen Wipe Out Entire Communities Over Cows

Written by Dr. Peregrino Brimah 

Agatu community in Benue State is the latest massacre ground in Nigeria. A certain Ado Boderi who spoke on behalf of the Fulani herdsmen, justified the violent sacking of the community that left hundreds dead and 7000 displaced–according to media reports–on the killing of 10,000 cows by the Agatu people. You immediately wonder how many human lives a cow is…

Man Beheads Step-Mother For Ritual In Benue (Graphic Photo)

There was tragedy recently in Obaganya, a settlement in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, during the weekend after one Echeno Adakole, beheaded his 50-year-old step-mother, Titi Enokela, allegedly for ritual purposes. It was gathered that the suspected allegedly trailed his victim to the farm and cut off her head.

He thereafter wrapped it with the dead woman’s cloth and put it in a…

Graphic Photo: Man reportedly beheads his step-mother for ritual in Benue State

  A young man reportedly murdered and beheaded his step mother woman in Obaganya area of Otukpo, Benue State. According to Idoma Voice, the suspect whose identity is not yet known waylaid his step mother at her farm and chopped off her head. A . said the victim’s family became worried when she didn’t return from her farm.

Abduction: Another Christian girl abducted by Muslim men in Benue

Hardly has the dust raised by the abduction of 14-year-old Ese Oruru, an Urhobo, Delta State born Christian girl from her parents’ home in Bayelsa State, by a Muslim man, Yunusa, and her forceful conversion to Islam and child-marriage yet to die down, and another case of forceful abduction has been reported.

.: “Looming War: 13-yr-old Christian girl kidnapped by Muslim man, forcefully converts…

Photos: 15 year-old girl from Benue allegedly abducted by two men in Sokoto and allegedly kept in the Sultan's palace

In another case of forceful abduction, a 15-year-old girl identified as Patience Paul from ohimini LGA of Benue State was allegedly taken by two men in gidan kukah, Runji sambo area of Sokoto State with the intention of converting her to Islam. Below is what her brother wrote as shared by Tsembelee Daniel Sorkaa on ..

“BENUE people let’s help our own. Keep sharing until she gets help. SUMMARY

Over 500,000 children immunized in Benue

Over 500,000 children have been immunized across the 23 local government areas of Benue State during the just concluded second round of Maternal and Newborn Child Health Week (MNCHW) in the state.

Flagging off the event in Ado local government area, wife of the state Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom, charged mothers to avail themselves the opportunity to present their children aged between zero to…