NewStats: 3,259,659 , 8,170,654 topics. Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 06:22 PM 5e3t53

Barely a week after suspected armed herders massacred over 50 farmers in parts of Benue State, fresh violence erupted in the early hours of Tuesday as gunmen stormed Afia community in Ukum Local Government Area, killing 11 residents and leaving several others injured.

The Ter Ukum, His Royal Highness, Chief Iyorkyaa Kaave, disclosed in Makurdi while addressing a security meeting convened to assess the spate of violence in the area.

Describing the attack as unprovoked and part of a calculated agenda to displace indigenous farmers, the monarch condemned the continued loss of lives and property in his domain.

“As I speak to you, these attacks began on Thursday in Logo and by Good Friday had spread to several communities in Ukum. We are still counting the dead, recovering more corpses and many of our people remain missing,” the monarch lamented.

According to him, Tuesday’s attack on Afia was particularly brutal, as the armed assailants stormed the community at dawn, firing sporadically at residents and leaving eleven dead on the spot, while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries.

Kaave expressed fears that the armed herders are bent on displacing local populations to seize their lands, noting that the situation has reached a crisis point.

“These people are different from the Fulani we knew and lived peacefully with in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, they would come during the dry season with their families and cattle. But what we are witnessing now are armed men with AK-47s, attacking our people in their sleep, and returning to occupy their homes,” the monarch stated.

He urged President Bola Tinubu to take decisive action, warning against any move to negotiate with those behind the killings.

“The president should understand this clearly — we do not want to settle with murderers. These people have a hidden but now obvious agenda: to kill, displace and occupy,” he said.

https://dailypost.ng/2025/04/22/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community/

All these killings, nobody was there to video them?

Gov. Alia na Manequin

So sad.

With all these gunmen attacks and deaths on daily basis. People killed in tens and hundreds on daily basis yet the clueless druggie has refused to declare state of emergency in Benue.
The world is watching
God is watching

The governor is more interested in downgrading Peter Obi than providing security for the people of Benue State.

Omo....I think this Benue killings now requires urgent attention by the international community as the people are not ready to defend themselves

When would I read ANY good news from Nigeria in a day ⁉️

There is no security in Nigeria , know this and know peace, the security agencies re just there to extort and molest law abiding citizens nothing more.

Open grazing is evil, plant doesn't move herders are the problem.

hmm

The atrocities committed in Biafra land by the middle belt people between 1967 to 1970 are coming back to hunt them. Lol

P1PrinceKT:
All these killings, nobody was there to video them?

Ask questions like an intelligent person

Hmm
There is more to this.
We should look into this from another perspective. I don't think this is ordinary as it looks.
No, it's not normal

I’m worried, many of these communities seem to know about the attacks in advance. So why aren’t they preparing to defend themselves?

So if I protect myself from a Fulani bandit by killing him I will be sentenced to death by Nigerian Supreme Court? So I am only supposed to disarm the attacker then run away? If I die in the process the case won’t reach Supreme Court right?
Nnamdi Kanu was right it’s a ZOO

Alia is clueless

How long will all these senseless killings and bloodshed continue for God's sake? Can the NASS remove security from the priority list of the FG.

P1PrinceKT:
All these killings, nobody was there to video them?

death means nothing anymore to people like you..SMH

Ever8090:
Omo....I think this Benue killings now requires urgent attention by the international community as the people are not ready to defend themselves

International community?

As in they should send in foreign soldiers for intervention while your government sits on her hand?

State police ASAP before benue indegens are wiped off.

This useless Rev Fr that prefer Easter goodwill messages than securing his people. Big mistake of a governor. Life means nothing again in Nigeria.

They should organise and help themselves...

Too many death in Benue. God please help Benue people to overcome this massacre

The governor and his cabinet do not see herdsmen who come in hundreds with intimidating number of AK 47s and stop them

Rather he can spot Pets Obi who comes alone, without arms, but with money to help people in need


The world is really upside down

Middle belt is bleeding.

Please, Does Anyone Have Link to a News Where Nigerian Police Arrested Just One of The Fulani Terrorist who Unleashed Terrors In Ondo, Ekiti, Osun,Edo, Imo, Enugu, Delta, Plateau , Kaduna, Benue Community?

These disgruntled dishonourable honourables are behind these killings all because of 2027 election.

Nemere2020:


https://dailypost.ng/2025/04/22/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community/

They are not just herdsmen but terrorist. At this state if I were to be State governor I will equip local vigilantes with critical fire power, then with drones that will help them to survey some of the forest then launch an attack against them. Since Federal government have decided to collude with this terrorist.
To end these things are like A and B. Some people are just allowing this Fulani herdsmen to have their way. This is just a grand plot from the caliphate.