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11 Feared Dead in Herder-Farmer Clash @ Abande, Nigeria – Cameroon Border Town

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: 'Operation Whirl Stroke', Agatu, Banditry, Cameroons, Commander-in-Chief, Herder – Farmer violence, Katsina Ala, Kwande, National security establishment, NIGERIA, Rural areas, Strategies of containment, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:
11 Feared Dead in Herder-Farmer Clash @ Abande, Nigeria – Cameroon Border Town

The spectre of violence haunting Benue State in central Nigeria since January 2016 is far from receding as eleven new persons have been reported killed in a new year onslaught. The site of v... Read more

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Deadly Combat Between Local and Herders Militia Over Agatu Leaves 4 Dead

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, AK 47, AMG, BPG, Dane gunNo CommentsViews:
Deadly Combat Between Local and Herders Militia Over Agatu Leaves 4 Dead

The hub of herder-farmer battle for supremacy across Nigeria may be shifting to Idomaland in Benue State where four Idoma youths were killed Saturday in an encounter between them and herders... Read more

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Confusion Over Casualties in Agatu Violence

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, farmers, Herders, Okokolo, Wet landNo CommentsViews:
Confusion Over Casualties in Agatu Violence

The military took control of Agatu area which has been the theatre of violence since yesterday morning. Eye witnesses confirmed seeing a convoy of soldiers, police and other security personn... Read more

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Violence Breaks Out in Agatu, Benue State, Again

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, Benue State, EU foreign and security policy, Ex-governor Samuel Ortom, Fulani, Global food chains, Herders, Indigenes, Nigerian cows, Nigerian State, Ranches, Settlers, The Police, Vice-Admiral Murtala NyakoNo CommentsViews:
Violence Breaks Out in Agatu, Benue State, Again

Violence is understood to have broken out in Agatu in Benue State between persons suspected to be herders and locals. Unconfirmed reports said there have been sporadic shooting across river... Read more

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The Radical Dimension to the Coming Cynthia Ochefije Edeba and Emmanuel Sunday Enegela’s Wedding

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Agatu, Edemoga, Idomaland, MarxistNo CommentsViews:
The Radical Dimension to the Coming Cynthia Ochefije Edeba and Emmanuel Sunday Enegela's Wedding

Strictly speaking, it is a boy and girl affair when Cynthia Ochefijie Edeba weds Emmanuel Sunday Enegela next Saturday, (October 9th, 2021). At that level, this is just another routine exerc... Read more

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Nigeria’s Pleasantly Dangerous Oweto Road

Posted By: adminon: October 02, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Agatu, Oweto, River BenueNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Pleasantly Dangerous Oweto Road

It was, until recently, a hub of kidnapping. Even till today, those who use it anticipate all manner of uncertainty and risk although there is a sufficiently muscular military presence obser... Read more

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Gunmen Assassinate Chief Terkura Suswan in Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Gana', Agatu, LogoNo CommentsViews:
Gunmen Assassinate Chief Terkura Suswan in Nigeria’s Benue State

News of violence is seeping out of Benue State in central Nigeria again. This time, it is that of Chief Dr. Terkura Suswan, elder brother to Senator Gabriel Suswan, a former Governor of Benu... Read more

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Violence Flares Up in Benue State Again

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, Benue killings, Makurdi-Otukpo-Enugu Highway, Otukpo, TarakuNo CommentsViews:
Violence Flares Up in Benue State Again

The spectre of violence which has haunted Benue State since the herdsmen attack on Agatu in early 2016 is not over yet as violence has been reported between the Taraku and Otukpo communities... Read more

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Tiv Elite Insists on Formal Abrogation of RUGA

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: 'Ruga', Agatu, Fulanisation, IslamisationNo CommentsViews:
Tiv Elite Insists on Formal Abrogation of RUGA

The Federal Capital Territory detachment of elite of Tiv nationality are waiting for a formal abrogation of the RUGA policy response to the herdsmen crisis Nigeria is experiencing. They are... Read more

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Take Violence Out of Democratisation in Nigeria – Chief Steven Lawani Reacts to Benue Killings

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2018In: GovernanceTags: Agatu, Australia, McDonald’s, Miyetti Allah, Portharcourt, Singapore, SokotoNo CommentsViews:
Take Violence Out of Democratisation in Nigeria - Chief Steven Lawani Reacts to Benue Killings

In order that those who died in this and previous herdsmen violence must not have died in vain, Nigeria and Nigerian leaders must ensure continuous updating of our agricultural development i... Read more

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