Tag: Communal Clashes
2 killed in Benue communal clash
“We got information that some mischievous persons burnt down the house of deceased DSP Emmanuel Agber at Ikpayongo" Police say
Senate mourns communal clash victims, sends delegates to Gombe
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, held a minute silence to mourn the victims of recent communal clashes who lost their…
Communal clashes hinder immunisation in C’ River – PHDA DG
Dr Betta Edu, Director General, Primary Health Care Development Agency, Cross River has said that communal clashes in some parts…
Katsina-Ala communal clashes: Tor Tiv expresses dismay
Prof. James Ayatse, the Tor Tiv and Chairman, Benue Council of Chiefs, has condemned the communal clashes between Shitile and…
Umahi suspends 2 LG chairmen over communal clashes
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Tuesday suspended the Chairmen of Ikwo and Abakaliki Local Government Areas over the…
JAMB: CDHR tasks Ebonyi govt, police on security over communal clash
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has urged Ebonyi Government to beef up security ahead of the…
Taraba: Communal clashes claim 73 lives
No fewer than 73 persons were confirmed dead and about 50 villages burnt following a renewed violence between the Hausa-Fulani…
Immigration CG warns against blaming foreigners for incessant communal clashes
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has warned those blaming foreigners for the incessant communal clashes…
NYSC calls for end to Delta communal clashes
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has appealed to communities in Delta to put an end to all forms of…
Communal clashes: Benue governor appeals for calm
Gov. Samuel Ortom on Friday appeal for calm during his visit to Ogobia and Ondo communities in Otukpo Local Government…
I will rehabilitate victims of insurgency says Al-Mustapha
Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, on Thursday said he would…
Benue: At least 23 killed in communal clashes
At least 23 villagers have died in clashes between two mainly fishing and farming communities in central Nigeria’s Benue state,…
IGP inaugurates committee on prevention of communal clashes
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba on Monday in Abuja inaugurated the Police Committee on the Prevention and…
Senator donates N2.5m cash, food items to internally displaced persons
Senator Suleiman Adokwe, ( PDP-Nasarawa) on Thursday donated N2.5 million cash and food items to persons displaced during the recent…
Kwara Sets Up 10-Man Panel To Probe Crisis
Apparently committed to finding lasting solutions to the incessant communal clashes between Offa and Erin-Ile communities in Offa and Oyun…
ACN faults sacking of 2 councils in Kwara
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has faulted the Kwara State government for dissolving the Oyun and Offa local governments…
Kwara govt sacks Oyun, ACN controlled Offa councils
As part of efforts towards finding lasting solutions to the communal clash between the two neighbouring communities of Offa and…
11 killed over land dispute
Eleven persons have been killed and no fewer than 2,000 people displaced in Adadama, Abi Local council of Nigeria’s south…
Nigerian governor offers cash for guns
Governor of Nigeria’s central state of Nasarawa, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, on Sunday promised to pay ethnic militia groups which lay…
7 Killed In Clashes Over Farmland
Inter communal strife between the people of Adadama and Igbo Amabana in Abi local government area in the central part…
Communal clashes leave 2 dead in Abuja
Ayorinde Oluokun Two persons have died in the Nigerian capital of Abuja as the Gwari people and nomadic Fulani in…
Nigeria police arrest 5 over communal clashes
The Taraba Police Command has arrested five persons in connection with ethnic clashes between the Bachama and Fulani people at…
Boki Leader Condemns Attack On Nsadop
The President of Boki Local Government Union in Lagos, Prince Julius Olom, has described the killings and savagery resulting from…