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	Benue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benue State lies between longitude 7O 47'E and 10OE and latitudes 6O25'N and 8O 8'N. The State has boundaries with Enugu, Kogi, Nasarrawa, Taraba, Ebonyi, Anambra, Cross River, and the Camerouns.
		Benue State is highly reputed for being the largest producers of food stuff in Nigeria, hence the State slogan “The food basket of the Nation.” The loamy soil and conducive weather conditions are responsible for the rich agricultural output of the State.
		Benue State is one of the homogenous ethnic compositions in Nigeria, notably occupies by the Tivs, the Idomas and the Igedes.
	www.fmct-nigeria.net /Benue.htm (755 words)

	Benue
		At the heart of the contrived intra-party conflict is the perfidious attempt by that regime in Abuja and his perverse determination to use local surrogates in his revenge mission against those perceived as having opposed his evil third term scheme.
		The Benue people and the Tiv in particular are yet to recover from the barbaric and criminal military invasion the Aso Rock tyrant ordered against them in 2001 and which resulted in the massacre of innocent civilians, not to mention the scorched earth destruction of entire villages and communities.
		Benue will face the Obasanjo menace squarely, with the ultimate concern being the defense of the overarching interests of the citizenry whose support must be mustered to confront the scourge.
	www.gamji.com /article6000/NEWS6576.htm (1054 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Benue Tiv crisis: As Obasanjo looks away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Reminiscent of the Tiv crisis of the 60's (Nande nande -"arson"-of 1960 and the atem ityough-"head cracking" of 1964/65), the subsisting crisis in the Tiv land of Kwande is:
		Governor Akume of Benue state seems to be enjoying the covert support for his actions as indicated by the inaction of president Obasanjo in the matter.
		Lest this crisis engulfs the whole of Tiv land (which is the largest part of Benue state by population and land mass), bringing with it the outrageous images of the 1960 and 1964/65, the Federal government should without further delay get actively involved.
	nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/shilgba/072204.html (1775 words)

	Welcome To Nigeria - Benue State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benue State lies in the middle of the country and shares boundaries with five states namely; Nassarawa to the north,Taraba to the east, Cross River and Enugu to the south, and Kogi on the west:
		Benue State experiences a typical tropical climate with two distinct seasons, the wet or rainy season and the dry season.
		Benue state is acclaimed the nation's "food basket" because of its rich and diverse agricultural produce which include yams, rice, beans, cassava, potatoes, maize, Soya beans, sorghum, millet and coco-yam.
	www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_benue.aspx (841 words)

	Military revenge in Benue:
		During its December 2001 visit to Benue, and a brief visit to Wukari, in Taraba State, Human Rights Watch was informed about an alarming increase in violence between Tivs and Jukuns in Taraba in the weeks preceding the military operation in Benue.
		The conflict in the Taraba-Benue area, which has been going on for decades, is principally between the Tivs, on the one hand, and the Jukuns, on the other; in recent years, the Jukuns have formed a close alliance with the Fulanis.
		Benue is often referred to as the Tiv state, and Taraba as that of the Jukuns.
	hrw.org /reports/2002/nigeria/Nigeria0402-05.htm (1602 words)

	Benue - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BENUE, a river of West Africa, the largest and most important affluent of the Niger, which it joins after a course of over 800 m.
		Through the Tuburi marshes there is a water connexion between the Benue (Niger) and Shari (Lake Chad) systems.
		This page was last modified 23:21, 1 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Benue (67 words)

	Benue - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Benue, river, west central Africa, the main tributary of the Niger River.
		The Bantu languages do not constitute a separate family, but should logically be grouped with certain languages of Nigeria, such as Tiv and Birom....
		The Niger River and its tributaries—principally the Benue, Kaduna, and Sokoto rivers—drain most of Nigeria.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Benue.html (79 words)

	Benue: IBB presidential campaign hots-up
		Also speaking, a senatorial aspirant for Benue North-East district, Dr. Godwin Dabo, described General Babangida as a poor man who is only living on the goodwill of the people he assisted when he was in power.
		The PDP North-Central auditor revealed that it was under IBB that Benue State University was established along with the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, apart from appointments of Benue indigenes in juicy posts and called for concreted efforts to make him president in 2007.
		Mike Mku, said Benue State is always for Babangida for what he did in the past and said if voted into the senate, the state will witness rapid development in terms of social amenities.
	www.nasarawastate.org /newsday/news/nasara06/NewArticle439.html (380 words)

	Weekly Trust: The Paper Online
		By unofficial arrangement, Benue North-West where Akume hails from is completely out of the game since the zone will be enjoying two solid terms of democratic rule by May 2007.
		Benue South pioneered the arrangement when Genaral Geoffrey Ejiga invited the seven aspirants in his area, and these include the state deputy governor, Prince Ogiri Ajene.
		These are: those who have their kinsmen as contestants, (and they belong to either Benue-South or Benue North-East), as well as those of the Benue North-West where there are no contestants.
	www.dailytrust.com /weekly/cover1.htm (1565 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article (Solving the Nasarawa/Taraba/Benue states crises Tiv-Jukun-Alago crises in Nasarawa and ...
		In 1918, all the ethnic minorities south of the Benue River including Bassa, Idoma, Igala, Tiv, Jukun, Kuteb, Chamba, Alago, Koro, Gwandara, Kamberi and others were all united to form Munshi province.
		Since Benue Province was balkanized with parts excised to Plateau and defunct Gongola states in 1976, the boundary became contentious.
		Similarly, the request by the Tiv now in Nasarawa State, to be merged with their kith and kins in Benue State was deliberately rejected by the commission.
	nigeriaworld.com /letters/2002/jan/181.html (2214 words)

	Vanguard - National News : Benue sues FG, 35 states on EFCC
		LAGOS—THE Benue State Government has dragged the Federal Government and the 35 state governments of the Federation before the Supreme Court over the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) Act 2004, contending that the National Assembly cannot validly pass any Act to create another police force or security agency.
		It says the creation of the EFCC vested with awesome and wide powers like those given to the police by the 1999 constitution and the Police Act contravenes the clear provision of the 1999 constitution is unconstitutional, null and void.
		Benue State is contesting that “contrary to the clear provision of the constitution, EFCC set up by the National Assembly and its operation, particularly in relation to the Benue State government, is another (Police) force in a disguise manner and with wide and/or overriding powers than the Nigerian Police.”
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/nationalx/nr110082006.html (558 words)

	Cholera outbreak kills up to 100 in Benue State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A senior government official said at least seven people had died from cholera in Makurdi over the past two weeks but local residents said the true death toll appeared to be nearer 100.
		Benue State Governor George Akuma visited the worst-hit Wadata district of the city on Monday and declared free treatment for hundreds of people in hospital because of the epidemic.
		Mike Iduma, Benue state commissioner for health, said the authorities had so far confirmed only seven deaths from cholera, but he acknowledged that many more deaths from the epidemic may not have been officially reported.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=46797 (475 words)

	Benue State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		NG-BE Benue is a state in east-central Nigeria.
		Benue is a rich agricultural region, full of rivers, and could be called the breadbasket of Nigeria.
		Benue State is named for the river Benue and was formed from the former Benue-Plateau State in 1976, along with Igala, which had been part of Kwara State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benue_State (150 words)

	Benue: Etim establishes fund for correspondents
		Performing the ceremony at Government House Press Centre in Makurdi, Dr. Atim said he discovered that journalists are in a grave danger in the course of their duties expressed optimism that the gesture would go along way in strenghtening their spirit.
		The chief press secretary who also challenged the office of the vice president zone D as well as the NUJ Benue council to look at the possibilities of enlarging the scheme to accommodate all journalists in the state.
		Speaking at the occasion, special assistant to the governor on media, Alhaji Baba Salau described the fund as commendable and changed journalists to show maturity and organisation in the course of their duties in the state.
	www.nasarawastate.org /newsday/news/nasara06/NewArticle401.html (297 words)

	Vanguard - Politics : Unongo’s decampment causes stir in Benue
		The event was an elaborate decamping ceremony into the ruling PDP of the leader of ANPP in Benue State, “Wantaregh” Paul Unongo, organized by a former National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Barnabas Gemade and presided over by the incumbent national chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali.
		Convinced that Unongo was the arrowhead of the opposition in Benue State in any political dispensation, Gemade expressed optimism that the presence of the 2003, ANPP governorship candidate for Benue State in the PDP, this time around, has marked “the end of opposition parties in Benue State”.
		Ali who described the event as “a day of catharsis” asserted that since Benue was endowed with enough political and leadership materials who are capable of taking not just Benue but the entire Nigeria forward, there was the need for realignment of forces for such a dream to be realized.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/october06/11102006/p511102006.html (1405 words)

	USAID Nigeria Mission: Benue
		The high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in many communities in Benue State has invariably led to an increasing number of children who are orphaned, due to parental death from AIDS-related diseases.
		As the death rate increases, caregivers are becoming fewer, thereby increasing the burden of orphans and their caregivers.
		The project is increasing access to family planning and reproductive health services in the Nigeria Police community through direct support to Police facilities in Lagos, Makurdi, Orji River, Enugu and Kaduna.
	www.usaid.gov /ng/benue.htm (630 words)

	Genocide and Nigerian Arrny massacre of Tiv civilians in central Nigeria.
		In 1918, all ethnic minorities south of the Benue River including Basse, Idoma, Igala, Tiv, Jukun Kuteb, Chamba, Alago, Koro Gwandara, Kambari and others were united to form the Munshi Province, Munshi being a term widely recognised as a nickname for the Tiv.
		In February 1992, the Federal Government on Nigeria held a peace conference between the Governors of the two States and a peace agreement was signed by them to cease all hostilities and allow normal life to resume in their communities.
		The army invasion and subsequent massacres of unarmed civilians with substantial damage to properties and institutions in Benue State was widely condemned locally and internationally.
	www.ishr.org /sections-groups/wac/tiv.htm (2872 words)

	‘Politicians In Benue Have Retarded Its Growth’
		Benue State is as old as 30 years, the state is still not connected to the national grid.
		There is massive unemployment, Benue State is naturally endowed; we have mineral deposits, yet there is no employment for the people and it is leading to brain drain, the youths are migrating to other places to look for greener pastures.
		What has the government done with it, Benue State has one of the largest local councils, Kwande is about the largest local government in the country.
	www.independentngonline.com /news/56/ARTICLE/8407/2006-08-08.html (1320 words)

	Nigeria: Massacre in Benue State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The attacks in Benue and Taraba States were apparently in reprisal for the killing of 19 soldiers, whose mutilated bodies were found on 12 October 2001 near to villages in Benue state including Gbeji, Vaase, Anyiin and Zaki-Biam.
		The Jukuns, however, are the majority in Taraba, which lies to the east of Benue, near the border with Cameroon.
		And as if to confirm their fears Benue State officials report that the special forces deployed in the area last week confronted a contingent of soldiers that came over from Taraba to burn villages in Ukum.
	www.africaaction.org /docs01/nig0110.htm (2782 words)

	Tje Tiv in the valley of shadow of death
		From Munchi Province to Benue Province, the Tiv and the Jukun co-existed.
		From the Munchi Province, Benue Province and up to the Benue Plateau State era, the Tiv and the other numerous ethnic groups in what is now known as Nassarawa State lived and coexisted in harmony.
		The reason for including the area in Benue State in the first instance had to do with the strong presence of the Tiv ethnic group in the area.
	www.kwenu.com /archive/tiv_case.htm (3981 words)

	Benue - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benue, river, W Africa, chief tributary of the Niger.
		The Benue, which carries much commercial traffic, is almost entirely navigable by power-driven boats in August and September, the height of the rainy season.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Benue" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-benue.html (139 words)

	Obasanjo says sorry for Benue killings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Obasanjo was in the Benue capital, Makurdi, to attend a reconciliation forum organised by the Benue branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria.
		The president had sent soldiers after local militiamen who killed 19 soldiers sent to quell violent clashes between Tivs and their Jukun neighbours on the border between Benue and Taraba states.
		The soldiers carried out reprisal attacks against several Tiv villages located in the area where the soldiers were killed, killing at least 200 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=31563 (383 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Benue PDP: Votes Donation and Onoja's Alarm (Page 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although the PDP is known for its ability to create scenes, the drama that played out at last week's governorship primaries in Benue state is becoming a referral point.
		The build up to last week's primary election to nominate a flag bearer of the PDP in the 2007 general election for Benue state was a source of confusion as was the outcome.
		While Akume had no problem winning the Benue North-West senatorial nomination with a clear margin that counted over the 50% mandatory requirement, David Mark had to turn his skin inside out to get the 41.18% which was upheld by Abuja as clear victory to the detriment of General Lawrence Onoja who came next with 38.47%.
	allafrica.com /stories/200612190520.html (1007 words)

	Benue Region Map: Ado — Vandeiky \| Nigeria Google Satellite Maps
		You are in Benue (Nigeria), administrative region of level 1.
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		Expedia is the long-standing web leader in online delivery of everything you need for researching, planning, and purchasing a whole trip in Benue.
	www.maplandia.com /nigeria/benue (629 words)

	News -- Fresh crisis erupts in Benue town
		FRESH communal crisis has broken out in Otukpo Local Council area of Benue State, with over 100 houses burnt by the combatants.
		An eyewitness told The Guardian that the crisis, which erupted at Otukpo Icho, a few kilometres from Otukpo town, the seat of Odi Idoma, at the weekend, was a fallout of disagreements between two factions in the village.
		Only last week, crisis over a piece of land in Makurdi claimed over 20 lives.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/mar/31/29.html (242 words)

	The Nigerian Embassy - States and Local Governments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benue State lies in the middle ofthe country and shares boundaries with five states namely; Nassarawa to the north,Taraba to the east, Cross River and Enugu to the south, and Kogi on the west:
		In the area of industrialization, the state government has taken several bold steps to redress the industrial backwardness ofthe state by setting up several industries including Taraku Mills Limited, Benue Brewery Limited, Benue Burnt Bricks, Benco Roof Tiles and Ago Millers Limited in which it still retains some holding.
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	nigerianembassy-argentina.org /government/states/benue.shtml (847 words)

	Benue \| WaterAid
		The Benue State Ministry of Water Resources is one of the indirect partners WaterAid Nigeria has related with over the years.
		WaterAid is still in dialogue with MWRandE on the management of the Department for International Development (DFID) rig in Benue for commercial purposes.
		Hitherto all of WaterAid's work in Benue has been in the rural areas where WaterAid works with four LGAs.
	www.wateraid.org /nigeria/our_partners/3629.asp (224 words)

	"Soldiers" Leave Death In Thier Wake - 27-10-01
		tension rose to unprecedented heights in Benue state, in Nigeria's middle belt area when people believed to be soldiers invaded four Benue villages - Vaase, Gbesir, Anyiim, Iorja a few days ago.
		The are believed to have been carrying out a reprisal attack on the Tiv people for the murder of twenty soldiers who were killed and their bodies mutilated by Tiv militia men about a fortnight ago.
		The soldiers had been abducted on October 11, in a Tiv suburb while their mutilated bodies were found few days later at a primary school in Zakbiya area of Benue state.
	www.nigeriabusinessinfo.com /benue-unrest271001.htm (297 words)

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