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
By Emmanuel Kwada The Uk’Omu Igala Organization (UIO) has sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) message to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the murderous and destructive activities of strange Fulani herders in Omala and Dekina Local Government Areas of Kogi State. In a statement signed by its National Leader, Elder David Abutu, and National Director […]Continue Reading
…A call for proactive engagement of international and local NGOs The Middle Belt is a multi-ethnic religious geographical area in Nigeria that comprises states such as Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kwara, and the Federal Capital Territory. It is a heterogeneous section with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds speaking over 230 languages and serving as Continue Reading
(Text of Bishop Kukah’s Easter Sermon) Every election brings more frustration and anger and the victims all turn on themselves. The circles have gone on and on. Little wonder, fewer and fewer citizens want to risk their lives for what promises them only blood, tears, injury and death. While citizens seek outlets to express […]Continue Reading
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
…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
By Theophilus Abbah, PhD The 1990s was aptly tagged the ‘Black Decade’ in Algeria. It was not just black, it was deadly and pernicious. It was a decade of fire and brimstone when terrorists’ fire engulfed the country from Algiers, its capital city, to rural and isolated communities. Riding on the wings of warped Islamic […]Continue Reading
By Eric Teniola President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has often referred to the gazette that published Nigeria’s grazing laws. In his television interview to mark his 6th anniversary in power, he referred to the so-called gazette. The President was echoing what his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari said on April 1, 2018, when he was […]Continue Reading
Escalating bloodshed in Nigeria is fueled in part by religious extremism – and the United States must recognize this in order to achieve peace, says the former U.S. religious freedom ambassador. “This thing’s going to blow up on us, as we would say, ‘bigger than Dallas,’ if we don’t get into there and really start […]Continue Reading