Latest Benue News today, Saturday, November 26, 2022
1. Two Benue men who identified themselves as Peter Ochigbo and Samuel Achu from Otukpo Local Government Area have been caught with a human head in Abuja.
The men who are currently in police custody claimed it was one Mr. Peter Eluma who is currently at large brought the human head to them.
2. Serial entrepreneur and Chairman/CEO of Camey and Rock Holdings, Dr. Peter Adejoh, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year.
Dr Adejoh bagged the award at the just-concluded ICONIC RECOGNITION AWARD NIGERIA organised by Icons Events Nigeria/Ministry of Information at Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, Abuja.
3. The Association of Residents Doctors (ARD), Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), said they will no longer proceed on strike action.
ARD had given notice of strike action to the Chief Medical Director of BSUTH, Prof Terlumun Swende, on Monday.
4. A Makurdi Federal High Court presided over by Justice Hassan Dikko has dismissed the suit filed by Prof. Terhemba Shija of the All Progressives Congress, APC challenging the emerging Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia as the governorship candidate of the party, for lacking in merit.
Prof. Shija had approached the courts seeking the nullification of the primary election of his party that produced Fr. Alia on the grounds that the process failed to meet the guidelines as stipulated in the Electoral Act and the APC’s rules guiding the conduct of the party’s primaries.
5. THE resident of Hon. Akaa Lim, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Gboko, Benue State was set ablaze by suspected hoodlums on Thursday, barely 24 hours after he received a car gift from Governor Samuel Ortom of the state. The Nation investigation revealed that Hon. Akaa Lim contested the Buruku State House of assembly ticket for Buruku State Constituency on the platform of PDP, but lost at primaries.
The PDP chieftain said he was in Makurdi, Benue state capital when he got a call at about 10am his house in Gboko was on fire. “I immediately rushed to Gboko. Before then neighbors helped to put out the fire. But I observed that the arsonists broke part of the ceiling so that the fire can spread easily. I suspected the work of my political opponents because they vandalized property worth millions of naira in the house, before setting it ablaze.
