Okpokwu LGA | Intervention

Fear of Epidemic Grips Opialu Community As Reddish, Wormy Parasites(?) Spread Over Its Section of River Ogbadibo in Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Akpodo, Benue State, Cholera, Community health intelligence, Gammalin-20, Historical vulnerability, OCDA, Okpokwu LGA, Opialu, River Ogbadibo, River Ogege, River Okpokwu, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:

37 years after a horrific cholera outbreak in the Opialu community in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Benue State, it is under siege again from an unknown parasites(?). Opialu, a... Read more

Passing On @ 100, Onyikwu Adeka aka ‘Enekolee’ Evokes Memories of the Adulugba Era in Edumoga

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Enekolee', Benue State, Biopolitics, Chief D A Adulugba, District Head, Edumoga, Idoma Native Authority, Okpokwu LGANo CommentsViews:

Intervention cannot call her death the end of an era because the Adulugba family in Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State is too vast for that to be the case. But,... Read more

Commander Ajenu’s Religious Touch to the Military Intervention in Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: April 14, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Benue State, David Mark, Enlightenment, Garri, Idomaland, Monday Morgan, Okpokwu LGA, Socialism, TivNo CommentsViews:

It has come to pass that ex-UI’s Professor Bayo Adekanye said it all when he wrote a book on the transformation of the military into an elite of power. As an elite of power, they are everywh... Read more

Ogene-Amejo Gets Electricity, A Big Deal in Rural Development in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Electricity, Lenin, Okpokwu LGA, Railway, SocialismNo CommentsViews:

If Lenin’s pragmatic synthesis of Socialism to electricity and the railway is anything to go by, then it could be said that one, remote Nigerian village is now in a state of ‘Socialism’. Tha... Read more

Okpokwu Peace Rally, Magnificent Finale to a Local Conflict With a Global Context?

Posted By: adminon: September 19, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Edumoga, Ichama, NIC, Okpoga, Okpokwu LGA, Olanyega, Omusu, Operation White StrokeNo CommentsViews:

Okpokwu Local Government Area is just one out of the many spaces of violence across recent Nigeria but a sociologically and locationally intriguing one too. There are sociological and locati... Read more

Unknown Gunmen Sack Benue Community, Olanyega,

Posted By: adminon: February 20, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: EDEMA, NGOs, Okpokwu LGA1 CommentViews:

No one has still been killed but most of Olanyega Village in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State in Central Nigeria ceased to exist after unknown gunmen attack it. The LGEA Primary,... Read more

Benue State Boils Again as Iwewe & Olanyega Clash Over Ancient Primary School

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: EDEMA, Okpokwu LGANo CommentsViews:

How the native intelligence system of elders, political leaders of Edumoga District to which all two villages belong, the police authorities in the area, the elite platform called EDEMA and... Read more

Return to Your Village and Back It Up – Gov Ortom Tells Omusu People

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: Coalition of Northern Groups, Idomaland, Ojapo, Okpokwu LGA, TivlandNo CommentsViews:

The clearest indication that no behind the scene efforts have been made by any set of stake holders in peace in Nigeria showed today at Omusu Village in Okpokwu LGA of Benue State when the s... Read more

Hon Abba Moro Loses First Wife

Posted By: adminon: February 20, 2018In: People in ActionTags: Okpokwu LGA, Zone C Senatorial District - Benue StateNo CommentsViews:

There has been no family statement yet but Intervention has learnt authoritatively of the death of Mrs Vero Moro, the first wife of a former Minister for Interior, Hon Abba Moro. Mrs Moro is... Read more

Police Finally Commences Raiding of Benue ‘Sambisa Forest’

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Benue Sambisa Forest', Bashir Makama, Mr.Oloofu Ogwuche, Okpokwu LGA, Ollo, UgbokoloNo CommentsViews:

The place nicknamed ‘Sambisa Forest’ in Ollo Village in Edumoga District in Benue State is finally being raided by the Nigeria Police. The operation which is on-going right now (Friday morni... Read more