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Benue attacks: Bandits pass through Nasarawa, but we do not harbour them – Governor Sule
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has refuted allegations that his state serves as a haven for criminals, particularly bandits originating from northern regions.
He emphasized that although some bandits may pass through Nasarawa, the state neither shelters nor supports them.
During a live phone interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Governor Sule responded to accusations made by Professor Zacharys Anger Gundu, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mkar, who claimed Nasarawa is home to bandits who launch attacks on communities in Benue.
The governor condemned the remarks as “provocative” and counterproductive, especially coming from an academic.
“We sent a letter to him to withdraw that kind of statement because it will end up creating more problems. I understand he is trying to come and apologise,” Governor Sule stated.
He explained that bandits move through various states in the course of...
Benue Civil Service Secretariat Not Disability Friendly – IFA
Top Stories Tamfitronics November 02, (THEWILL) The Inclusive Friends Association (IFA) has decried the unfriendly nature of the Benue State Civil Service Secretariat, Makurdi, in which people living with disability hardly access it on official visits.The Executive Secretary of IFA, Miss Grace Jerry, made the observation when she led a team of stakeholders on an advocacy visit to the Director General of Benue State Budget and Economic Planning Commission, Dr Jerome Andohol.On arrival at the Secretariat, Ms Jerry, who was in a wheelchair, was lifted up by members into the Director General’s office due to the lack of RAAPS (walkways), which drew the attention of the government to address the situation.She informed the DG that Benue is the remaining state in North Central Nigeria yet to domesticate the Disability Act, which is not...
Benue: PDP crisis heightens as Ex-Gov, Ortom, state chairman battle suspension saga
Top Stories Tamfitronics MAKURDI (Sundiata Post) – The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State has heightened as the suspended party chairman, John Ngbede, yesterday, met to ratify the suspension of the immediate past governor, Samuel Ortom.Ngbede told newsmen at the party secretariat, Makurdi, that Ortom and his lieutenants were suspended because they wanted to take the party leadership by force.He alleged that the former governor and his cronies were trying to take the party back to the old order where malpractices held sway.The state chairman, Sir John Ngbede, the secretary and organising secretary of the party were suspended on August 5, in a letter signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Bemgba Iortyom, alleging misconduct at the just concluded ward congresses.But Ngbede dismissed his suspension and that of his officials saying only the...
Benue APC: The bitter edge of godfatherism
Politics tamfitronics One in all the supreme problems of partisan politics in Nigeria is the recurrence of vitality mongering, compelled godfatherism and the poverty of restraints wielded by some so-known as occasion strongmen. The tendency for these strongmen to impose candidates, trample as soon as in a whereas structures and contain themselves into establishments has been the bane of occasion supremacy. From the days of Lamidi Adedibu, the strongman of Ibadan politics, to the failed strive by Adams Oshiomhole to play god over Edo politics, so-known as occasion solid men own viewed blended fortunes. Nevertheless, this has now not stopped other would-be stalwarts from touring this thorny route. The swift fallout between the instant-previous governor Nyesome Wike (now minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT) and his political godson, Governor Simi Fubera, of Rivers dispute,...
