Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday evening launched a deadly attack on Otobi community in Akpa District of Otukpo Local Government Area, Benue State, leaving several residents feared dead. An eyewitness revealed that the attackers stormed the village around 6 pm and began shooting indiscriminately at anyone in sight. “They have been shooting and killing people since 6 pm. As we speak, our house and several others have been burnt down. We are helpless,” a distressed villager lamented.

Following the unabated pogrom that was recently unleashed by herders in Plateau communities and other isolated cases in northern Nigeria, his Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, said that traditional rulers are worried than an average politician concerning the wave of insecurity in country.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday gave marching orderto the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, to take decisive steps in addressing the root causes of the continual age long communal violence afflicting the state. The President’s order came as a family of eight was wiped out amid fresh reports of deadly attack in several Plateau communities.Many houses and properties were razed by the marauders. More than 40 people were also reportedly killed in the Zike community in the Kwall council area in the wee hours of yesterday.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has yesterday admitted to collecting the sum of N300 million from the Rivers State Government while planning its 2025 Annual General Conference (AGC) that was initially scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt. This is coming after the Rivers State Sole Administrator Ibok-Ete Ibas is insisting that the money, approved by the suspended Governor Siminialayi Fubara, must be refunded back to the state coffers.

To guarantee a long-term food security across the African continent, Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, a professor of agriculture, has called on African leaders to transit from rain-fed agriculture to climate-smart and irrigation-based farming systems. Zulum was speaking while addressing participants at the 6th Edition of African Regional Conference of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), held in Abuja yesterday.

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has lamented the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in Borno State, saying it signals that the state is losing ground to the terrorists. He decried the resurgence of the terrorist on Tuesday at a Special Expanded Security Meeting (ESM) at the Government House, in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno. He stated this at a Special Expanded Security Meeting (ESM) attended by the General Officer Commanding the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Abubakar Haruna, Sector Commanders, Commissioner of Police, heads of other security agencies, Shehu of Borno, Alh. Dr. Abubakar Garbai Al-Amin El-Kanemi, Shehu of Bama, Emirs of Biu, Uba, Askira, and Gwoza, while Shehu of Dikwa- and Emir of Shani were represented.