April 2022 Benue State killings information

On April 12, 2022, armed herdsmen attacked several villages in Benue State, Nigeria, killing over 25 people and injuring many more. Nigeria has been facing...

feared dead in Benue state as herdsmen strike again". Legit.ng - Nigeria news. "10 feared dead in fresh herdsmen attack on Guma LGA of Benue". March 20,...

International Gospel Centre's North Bank branch in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria collapsed, killing pastor Emmanuel Ahmed and leaving 4 others injured. The...

from A8 at Jimeta across the Benue River via Song, Wuro Hesso, Marraraba, Mubi, Amjawa, Gulak and Mararaba to Borno State near Wagga Lugere. Other major...

Bauchi State: Bala Muhammed PDP Bayelsa State: Duoye Diri PDP Benue State: Samuel Ortom PDP Borno State: BabaGana Umara APC Cross River State: Benedict...

victims were freed. On 24 April 2021, gunmen kidnapped students from the Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi, in Benue State. According to eyewitnesses...

of the Niger Delta on the oceanward extension of the Benue Trough. The inland part of the state consists of tropical rainforest, and towards the coast...

curfews were usually imposed by the state government and that gives room for further killings. Some of the killings especially in the Zangon Kataf axis...

the Idah/Dekina part of the state was carved out and merged with a part of the then Benue/Plateau state to form Benue state. On 27 August 1991, five Local...

Presidents & Heads of State". statehouse.gov.ng. Statehouse of Nigeria. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2022. "Shehu Shagari:...

Electoral Commission (INEC). Motion on herdsmen killings in Guma and Logo Local Government areas of Benue State and the alarming humanitarian situation that...

Zamfara State 209 Quick Response Group, Ipetu-Ijesha, Osun State 211 Quick Response Group, Owerri, Imo State 21 Quick Response Wing, Agatu, Benue State 22...

IPOB threatened to deploy the ESN to Benue State to protect Igbos against Fulani raiders; this came after the killings of IPOB activists by armed Fulani...

South Atlantic Ocean in the south. The country's northeast bordered the Benue Hills and mountains that lead to Cameroon. Three major rivers flow from...

education at St Bartholomew's Primary School in Wusasa and moved on to the Benue Provincial Secondary School in Katsina-Ala where he was the captain of the...

Niger and Benue river valleys (which merge and form a Y-shape). To the southwest of the Niger is a "rugged" highland. To the southeast of the Benue are hills...

the early hours of April 25, 2016. Uzo Uwani has boundaries with the Southern States of Ebonyi and Anambra, and Central States of Benue and Kogi, where these...

attack killed 55 people. 14 May – 53 people were killed by Boko Haram in Benue State. The government also began an offensive operations in Borno, Yobe, and...

2017 Benue State flooding took place in September 2017 in Central Nigeria. Weeks of rainfall led to flash floods, discharges and river flowing in Benue State...

Retrieved 19 September 2022. "Chart of the week: Mass killings in Nigeria". SBM Intelligence. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2022. Nwabufo, Fredrick. "How...

North-Western State, North-Eastern state, Kano State, North-Central State, Benue-Plateau State, Kwara State, Western State, Lagos State, Mid-Western State, and...

Nigeria. Retrieved 3 June 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help) "Benue-Congo languages". Pasquier, Michael (21 November 2017), "French Missionary...

separate identity because they lived where the agriculturally dependent Benue-Kwa groups were unable to penetrate. Some of the earliest archeological...

escarpment and not a hill. Enugu is located in the Cross River basin and the Benue trough and has the best developed coal in this area. Precambrian basement...

Party. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State In the APC, renewed criticism...

2022. "Nigeria's Pernicious Drivers of Ethno-Religious Conflict". Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Retrieved 27 November 2022. "KILLINGS IN BENUE...

not clear when the Ibibio arrived at state. According to some scholars, they might have come from the central Benue valley, particularly, the Jukun influence...