Nigeria: Benue's Bloodshed - Beyond Ethnic Tensions, a Triple Crisis of Climate, Politics, and Arms

Tears in the Food Basket: why Benue's conflict is a national time bomb - Daily Trust

There is a peculiar ache that comes from watching a place of abundance turn into a place of absence. Benue, once Nigeria’s richest cradle of agricultural promise, is now a land soaked in sorrow. What used to be a landscape of hope lush with yam ridges, green with cassava stems, dotted with maize silos and rice paddies is now a mosaic of abandoned farms, burnt-out homes, and mass graves. In a country desperate for economic recovery and food secur…

Benue crisis indication of terrorism, not clashes between herders, farmers

A civil rights group in Delta State has said the crisis in Benue State is a clear indication of terrorism and not clashes between two groups as claimed by the Nigerian Chief o Defence Staff, CDS, Gen. Christopher Musa The Initiative For Social Rights Concerns and Advancement (ISRCA) said this in a statement signed and made available to newsmen by its National Coordinator, Derrick Oritsematosan Agberen. The CDS had purportedly said in a broadcast…

Nigeria: Benue's Bloodshed - Beyond Ethnic Tensions, a Triple Crisis of Climate, Politics, and Arms

Perhaps the most alarming catalyst in this inferno is the proliferation of small arms and light weapons.

Tor Tiv Declares Benue Killings Genocide, Rejects ‘Herders-Farmers Clash’ Tag

The Tor Tiv V, His Royal Majesty Prof. James Ayatse, on Wednesday, strongly rejected the narrative that the recent Yelwata massacre was a clash between herders and farmers, warning that such framing dangerously misrepresents the crisis in Benue State. Speaking during his address when President Bola Tinubu met with Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia and top security chiefs in Benue on Wednesday, Ayatse described the incident as part of a decades-…

NIM Condemns Benue Killings, Urges Urgent Crisis Resolution

ShareThe Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) has condemned the latest spates of attacks at Yelewata, Guma LGA, Benue State, which led to the loss of scores of lives and destruction of properties, urging government at all levels, security agencies and all stakeholders to work together for a peaceful resolution of the crisis. According to a... The post NIM Condemns Benue Killings, Urges Urgent Crisis Resolution appeared first on New Teleg…

‎ACF Condemns Yelwata Killings, Urges  Security Review, National Reconciliation Efforts

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has strongly condemned the recent violent attacks in Yelwata Community, Benue State, which led to the deaths of scores of people and left many others—including women, children, and the elderly—seriously injured. ‎ ‎By Chimezie Godfrey ‎ ‎The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has strongly condemned the recent violent attacks in Yelwata Community, Benue State, which led to the deaths of scores of peop…