Latest Benue News today, Monday, August 1 2022

1. Governor Samuel Ortom has stated that the Benue State government is currently paying the highest wage bill in Northern Nigeria which has compounded the issue of salaries payment.
Speaking on Sunday, July 31, 2022 while featuring on TVC News ‘Journalist Hangout’, Governor Ortom also decried the lawlessness that has engulfed the nation, saying Nigerians were living in distress.
2. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has dismissed the thought of slashing the salaries of Benue workers despite paying the highest wage in the northern and third highest in the country after Lagos and Rivers States.
The Governor, who lamented that the wage bill of the state contributes in no small measure to the financial challenges the government is grappling with, said it would be unreasonable to adjust salaries given difficult times and the inflationary rate in the country.
3. To ensure accessibility to quality shipping services and the provision of trade related information to stakeholders in Benue and Nasarawa States, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) yesterday reopened its Makurdi Area Office to ensure accessibility to quality shipping services.

Executive Secretary of the council, Barr. Emmanuel Jime, who disclosed this during the official reopening of the NSC office in Makurdi the Benue State capital also informed that the council as Port economic regulator has been playing critical roles to ensure effectiveness, ease of doing business and cost efficiency at the ports and the entire transport chain.

4. The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has met with his Benue State counterpart, Sam Ortom, ostensibly to continue the movement for common ground as the party prepares for the 2023 presidential election.
The Delta governor, whose selection as the presidential running mate ruffled some feathers, met with Ortom in Benue State Lodge Abuja after the Benue governor softened his opposition to the PDP running mate choice.
5. One of the soldiers killed on Thursday night, July 28, when unknown gunmen attacked a military checkpoint near Zuma Rock, around Zuma rock in Niger State, has been identified as Daniel Odih.
Odih and his colleagues were shot dead when the terrorists opened fire on them at the checkpoint near Madalla town.

6. Candidate on the platform of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Ambassador Philip Wuhe, has taken a swipe at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue, saying the party has failed and has nothing to warrant anyone to vote it again.
Wuhe also described the governorship candidate of the PDP, who is also Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly as a misfit for the state number one seat.

7. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) has warned residents of Benue State against online attractive job offers.
Gloria Iveren Bai, the zonal commander of Makurdi Zonal Command, handed the warning at the weekend during the agency’s walk as part of activities to mark this year’s World Day Against Human Trafficking in Persons aimed to raise awareness on the situation of human trafficking.