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Adakole Daniel: An Accountant-turned-Peace Mediator in Benue State

By The Insight Team September 7, 2026 285 0

By Sharon Emmanuel Adakole Inalegwu Daniel, a young Accounting graduate, could have chosen the safety of staying away from trouble-ridden communities affected by armed attacks in Benue State. Instead, he has spent years risking his life to promote peace among rural dwellers. Daniel has also invested his personal resources and livelihood in efforts to prevent […]Continue Reading

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Lives of Rural Villagers Hold Little Value to Authorities in Nigeria – American Missionary

By The Insight Team January 26, 2026 840

By Emmanuel Kwada American missionary Alex Barbir has issued a stark condemnation of the Nigerian government’s apparent indifference to ongoing violence in the Middle Belt, asserting that the lives of rural Christian villagers and indigenous communities “hold little value” to those in power. His comments come amid a recent trek into one of the Continue Reading

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Governor Alia’s ‘brothers in the bush’ unleash terror on Benue

By The Insight Team April 10, 2024 1171 0

Key points About 250 killed between February and early April, 2024 12 Local Government Areas under siege Ultimatum to foreign herders to leave fall on deaf ears ‘Governor does not visit victims’ ‘Crisis can’t end until government comes up with a data-based economic policy’ He is doing his best – spokesman By Charity Roberts On […]Continue Reading

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Reverend Alia: From healing crusader to governor-elect

By The Insight Team April 25, 2023 1806 0

Key points: Before his election as Governor-elect, Revd Alia had been a Catholic priest for 32 years The Catholic Church suspended him when he showed interest in politics He endeared himself to the people through his mass healing and deliverance ministry in Makurdi Aspirants for governor in Benue underrated him Non-payment of salaries by outgoing […]Continue Reading

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Insecurity: Idoma to send delegation to NSA; declares fasting and prayer

By The Insight Team April 11, 2023 926 0

By Daniel Adaji Prominent sons and daughters of Idoma on Saturday gathered in Otukpo Benue State,  and discussed the spate killings in Oturkpo, Apa, and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue State where above 134 persons were killed by Fulani militia. The killing that took place during this year’s Easter celebration has been condemned by […]Continue Reading

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No help is near as Fulani bandits massacre over 134 in Benue, Kogi communities during Easter

By The Insight Team April 10, 2023 1122 0

…Herdsmen destroy Oganenigu in Kogi State, four years after similar mayhem Daniel Adaji Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom is counting his last days out of Government House, Makurdi, not without floods of tears over yet another massacre of 134 persons in Oturkpo, Apa, and Guma Local Government Areas of the State. The latest deaths, blamed […]Continue Reading

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Benue Catholic priest, shot dead while caring for IDPs, buried amidst tears

By The Insight Team April 21, 2021 1096 0

Tears flowed freely from family, parishioners, and friends of the murdered Catholic priest, Reverend Father Ferdinand Fanen Ngugban, 38, as his remains were finally interred a few days ago, precisely on April 13, 2021. Ngugban was killed alongside six others on March 30, 2021, by loyalists of the late wanted criminal kingpin, Terwase Akwaza, popularly […]Continue Reading

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Benue ‘strange’ illness: No test results after 2 months; death toll now 16

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 933 0

  ‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading