Latest Benue News today, Wednesday, December 14 2022

1. The 401 Special Forces, SF, Brigade has deployed more personnel to some volatile areas in Benue State to forestall criminality.
The SF has also lined up its Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) activities aimed at strengthening the cordial relationship that exists between it and some host communities.
2. The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday, received his counterpart from Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal with the aim to resolve the internal crisis rocking the party.
Tambuwal is the Director-General of the campaign committee of the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

3. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Monday inaugurated the N6.5billion Benue State Geographic Information Service Centre, a component of the Benue Geographic Information Service, BENGIS, Digitization Project.
Inaugurating the edifice in Makurdi, the Rivers State Governor who commended his Benue state counterpart who he described as a silent achiever that meant well for his people, recalled that he had visited the state four times to commission projects “but this is an epoch-making project.”

4.The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), an agency saddled with the responsibility of fighting illegal acquisition of wealths in Nigeria on Tuesday, at Nigeria Police Barracks Wadata, Makurdi discovered huge quantities of money.
The monies, which were in different denominations, were stacked in more than 5,000 of 50kg sacks, bearing Unity Bank logos.

5. The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Makurdi office swiftly debunked the report of a video trending on social media where sacks of old naira notes were discovered at Wadata market in the capital city.

But an official of the commission who did not want to be mentioned since he was not authorized to speak said that the office got information about sacks of old naira notes and deployed its men to the place but discovered that it was condemned notes from the Central Bank of Nigeria.