Benue News this morning, Wednesday, July 27 2022

Good morning! Here is summary of Benue News this morning, Wednesday July 27, 2022.

1. The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Mohammed Fadah, on Tuesday sworn in 1,700 corps members posted to Benue State for the 2022 Batch B Stream II on Tuesday and took the oath of allegiance to service.

The DG who was represented by the State Coordinator of NYSC, Abe Dankaro charged the members to take the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, program seriously in the face of scarcity of white-collar jobs.

2. Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress are protesting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, in solidarity with the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The protest is also an opportunity for the NLC to bring attention to other issues affecting the nation.

3. The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State has been hit with another crisis as stakeholders of the party from the Benue South Senatorial District rejected Sam Ode, running mate of the APC governorship candidate, Fr. Hyacinth Alia.

The Zone C APC elders had issued a statement rejecting the reported choice of Ode as the running mate of Fr Alia.
4. o fewer than nine farmers have been reportedly killed at their various farms in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
This was made known on Monday by Governor Samuel Ortom, while briefing journalists in Makurdi, blaming armed herders for the killings.

5. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has called on Federal Government to account for the one billion dollars in security funds jointly put together by the 36 states of the federation to fight insurgency in the country.

Addressing newsmen in Makurdi on Tuesday shortly before the commencement of the State Security Council meeting, Ortom wondered how Federal Government had expended the huge sum of money now that insecurity has continued unabated in the country.

6. Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue South have bemoaned the high spate of court cases trailing the conduct of the primary election that produced the party’s governorship candidate for the 2023 election Rev, Father Hyacinth Alia.

They revealed that nine different avoidable cases are pending against the governorship candidate’s nomination at a time the party ought to be preparing for the governorship election.