
	Where results make sense

Topic: Benue State

Related Topics

States of Nigeria

Ekiti State

Plateau State

Delta State, Nigeria

Abia State

Anambra State

Gombe State

Kogi State

Cross River State

Imo State

Akwa Ibom State

Niger State

Ondo State

Ogun State

Nigeria

In the News (Sat 11 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Nigeria: SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE - Benue State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Benue state health problems and diseases are due mainly to infections which are bacterial, viral and parasitic as well as those related to pregnancy, child birth and nutrition.
		Benue state is accessible by land, air and water.
		Since some of the tourist attractions are best selected by the tourist, Benue State in her bid to develop tourism embarked on infrastructural development necessary for the overall wellbeing of the tourist.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/benueadv.asp?blurb=214 (1312 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 (136 words)

	Nigeria
		Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and a capital territory, with an elected president and a bicameral legislature.
		Both the federal and state governments are involved in religious matters, including the regulation of mandatory religious instruction in public schools, subsidized construction of churches and mosques, state-sponsored participation in the Hajj, and pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
		State authorities claim that students are permitted to decline to attend these classes or to request a teacher of their own religion to provide alternative instruction; however, in practice the dominant religion of the state is taught in the school, and students cannot use these other mechanisms.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8397.htm (19614 words)

	Welcome To Nigeria - Benue State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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.
		Benue is often referred to as the Tiv state, and Taraba as that of the Jukuns.
		More than six months later, many of the Tiv who were displaced from Nasarawa are still living in Benue State, in camps with little or no facilities, and a persisting fear of returning to their homes because of the continuing insecurity there.
	hrw.org /reports/2002/nigeria/Nigeria0402-05.htm (1602 words)

	Benue
		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)

	Plateau State, Nigeria \| History
		Plateau State, which derives its name from the Jos Plateau, is located more or less at the centre of the country.
		In May 1967, Benue and Plateau Provinces were merged to form Benue-Plateau State, one of the twelve states into which the military administration of General Yakubu Gowon divided Nigeria in place of the four then existing regions.
		Benue-Plateau State emerged as one of those large states of the Federation where pressure was mounted on the Federal Government immediately after the civil war for the creation of more states.
	www.plateaustategov.org /history (267 words)

	Nigeria
		In August in Edo State, a police sergeant was arrested and detained for the shooting death of John Osazuwa, a member of the State Committee on Forestry.
		The Constitution states that a Shari'a court of appeal may exercise "such other jurisdiction as may be conferred upon it by the law of the State." States interpreted this language as granting them the right to expand the jurisdiction of their existing Shari'a courts to include criminal matters.
		State authorities claimed that students were permitted to decline to attend these classes or to request a teacher of their own religion to provide alternative instruction.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18220.htm (18909 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article (Solving the Nasarawa/Taraba/Benue states crises Tiv-Jukun-Alago crises in Nasarawa and ...
		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.
		The crisis in Nasarawa South Senatorial District of Nasarawa State was never ignited by the Tiv people but rather, based on the foregoing factors of Tiv domination and population, a conspiracy was hatched and mercenaries were hired to eliminate and displace the people.
	nigeriaworld.com /letters/2002/jan/181.html (2214 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Nigeria: Crisis in Benue state
		Benue, in eastern central Nigeria, has been in a state of full-scale tribal war for months with the army caught in the middle.
		A register kept by the state government in Benue State lists 27,000 people as having been driven from their homes.
		This was one of the last parts of Nigeria to be brought under central government control, one of the last to be offered modern education and public services, one of the last to be influenced by either Christianity or Islam.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/1617507.stm (444 words)

	Plateau State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plateau State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, and is roughly located in the centre of Nigeria.
		This was one of the twelve states that Nigeria was divided into under the military administration of General Yakubu Gowon.
		In 1996, Plateau State was further subdivided to create Nassarawa State which was carved out of the western half of Plateau State by the Abacha military regime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plateau_State (432 words)

	Nigeria ---->>> Nassarawa State
		It is bounded in the north by Kaduna state, in the west by the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in the south by Kogi and Benue States and in the east by Taraba and Plateau States.
		The state is bounded on the north by Kaduna State, on the South by Benue State, on the East by Plateau & Taraba States, while on the West by The Federal Capital Territory & Kogi State.
		Nassarawa state is a pot pourri of tourist attractions with array of hills and rocks that dot the state's landscape.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/nassarawa.htm (417 words)

	Nigeria ---->>> Benue State
		Benue State is located in the middle belt area of Nigeria and is bordered by Nassarawa State to the north, Taraba to the east, Ebonyi and Cross River to the south and Kogi State to the west.
		Many of the ethnic groups that inhabit Benue State today were associated with the rise and fall of Kwororofa Kingdom.
		By 1800, all the people in the area to be known later as Benue State had arrived in the area and had learnt to co-exist with one another.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/benue.htm (520 words)

	Nigeria: Soldiers Massacre Civilians in Revenge Attack in Benue State (Human Rights Watch, 25-10-2001)
		Benue and neighboring Taraba states, in central Nigeria, have been the scene of longstanding disputes between these two groups, which erupted again in recent weeks.
		At their state funeral on October 22, President Olusegun Obasanjo publicly urged the security forces to spare no effort in tracking down those responsible.
		The situation in Benue was reminiscent of a sequence of events in the town of Odi, in Bayelsa state in southern Nigeria, in November 1999, when soldiers seeking to avenge the murder of 12 policemen by local armed groups razed the entire town and killed scores of civilians.
	www.hrw.org /press/2001/10/nigeria1025.htm (775 words)

	Welcome To Nigeria - Cross River State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It shares boundaries with Benue State to the north, Enugu and Abia States to the west, to the east by Cameroon Republic and to the south by Akwa-Ibom and the Atlantice Ocean.
		Cross river State was one of the first regions of western education in Nigeria.
		The State capital, Calabar, can be reached by air, sea and road while other parts of the state are accessible by road.
	www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_states_crossriver.aspx (637 words)

	Nigerian Dancers Take Mexico By Storm
		The Nigeria dance and cultural troupe represented by the sensational and Internationally acclaimed Benue state cultural troupe was led by the deputy governor of Benue State Chief Ogiri Ajene.
		In his response, Chief Ogiri Ajene, the head of the delegation and deputy governor of Benue State praised the "vision" behind the African Safari and the "dynamism" of the management under the leadership of Mrs.
		He also, expressed gratitude to the Governor of Benue State Dr. George Akume for sponsoring the dance troupe to "undertake the tour of Mexico to showcase the rich cultural endowment and beauty for Nigeria".
	www.banderasnews.com /0503/nr-bystorm.htm (1045 words)

	News: Nigeria, Nigeria: Cholera outbreak kills up to 100 in Benue State
		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.
		In February, at least 46 people died of cholera in Kusa, a village in Oyo state in southwestern Nigeria, which is mainly populated by quarry workers and self-employed gold miners.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6BT42T?OpenDocument (560 words)

	THE PREVALENCE OF ANIMAL TRYPANOSOMIASIS IN NIGERIA
		The state is known to be an endemic zone for both animal and human trypanosomiases (1,2).
		Goboko Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State, which is to the north of Konshisha LGA, was hyper-enzootic for animal trypanosomiasis with a ruminant infection rate of 33.2% (2).
		Konshisha LGA is in the southern Guinea Savanna vegetation of Benue State.
	www.isrvma.org /article/55_4_7.htm (1391 words)

	Nigeria: Massacre in Benue State
		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.
		While camps set up outside Makurdi, the Benue State capital, for people displaced by the fighting in Nasarawa, were still not completely empty, a new influx from the fighting in Taraba has filled them up.
		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.
		Indeed in the state creation exercise of 1992 these areas were placed in Benue State only to be excised back to Plateau State a few days later.
		We were in the Benue-Plateau State together from 1967, when the state was created until 1976 when Benue-Plateau State was split into Benue and Plateau State and the northern part of old Benue State merged with Plateau State.
	www.kwenu.com /archive/tiv_case.htm (3981 words)

	Genocide and Nigerian Arrny massacre of Tiv civilians in central Nigeria.
		The claim has been that Tiv people who reside in Nasarawa and Taraba states are there as settlers or immigrants or non-indigenous and must therefore relocate to present day Benue State where a large number of Tiv people live, losing all their ancestral farmlands.
		Consequently, the Tiv were split among four states, with the bulk remaining in Benue state.
		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)

	Media Rights Agenda...Promoting and Protecting Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
		The July 3 to 10, 2000 edition of Benue State newspaper, The Voice, was withdrawn from newsstands in Makurdi on Monday, July 3.
		Though no reasons were given for the withdrawal, investigations revealed that it was in connection with a story published in the edition alleging that the Benue State House of Assembly had been bribed to impeach the state governor, George Akume.
		He said it was disheartening that while the legislative arm was doing everything possible to justify the mandate given them by the electorate as well as make the state media organisations function properly, they decided to “hide some of their proceedings,” from the public.
	mediarightsagenda.org /attjul00.html (1241 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Nigeria governor survives ambush
		George Akume, governor of Benue state in central Nigeria, was in a convoy of cars when gunmen burst out of the hills and opened fire, targeting his car.
		However, he did criticise the government over its handling of the army's shooting of some 200 civilians in Benue state in 2001.
		Benue is one Nigeria's most ethnically diverse states and the army was accused of taking sides in clashes between the rival Jukun and Tiv groups.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3529849.stm (273 words)

	The Benue Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Possibly because the 'Benue mission' was sanctioned at the highest level of government, little or no attempts were made to identify and bring to book those responsible for the atrocities.
		It is interesting that though Professor Jerry Gana has up to the time of writing not stepped one foot in Benue state to see what 'his soldier' had done, he would want the world to take him seriously on the massacre.
		If true healing must return to parts of Benue State, the terms of the Commission of Inquiry looking into the crises in the sub region must be enlarged to cover the ignoble role of the Army in the crises.
	nigerdeltacongress.com /barticles/benue_massacre.htm (1141 words)

	News -- Bandits renew siege to Akume's attack scene
		They are also suspected to be Nigerien rebels, brought into Plateau State by some persons to gain upper hand in the sectarian and communal crises rocking the state.
		Some officials of the Benue State government, who hurriedly left Makurdi, the state capital on Wednesday for Abuja to greet Akume, were attacked by the hoodlums.
		Meanwhile, all commissioners and senior civil servants in the state have moved to Abuja to console Akume over the incident and the death of Agom and Ngam.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/mar/5/20.html (787 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)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)