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	Makurdi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sesame seeds and cotton grown in the region are collected at Makurdi for transshipment.
		The town has an airport and is a rail and road center and the terminus of a bridge across the Benue.
		Makurdi was developed by the British in the early 20th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Makurdi.html (123 words)

	Makurdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Makurdi is the capital of Benue State in Nigeria.
		The city is located in central Nigeria and is the base for the Nigerian Air Force Mig 21 and Jaguar aircraft squadrons.
		Makurdi is located on a major tributary of the Niger River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Makurdi (119 words)

	Nigeria Army Masscre Evidence Shown
		MAKURDI, Nigeria –– State officials showed journalists a grainy video of bodies in deserted village streets, saying it supported claims that soldiers bent on revenge gunned down at least 130 civilians in eastern Nigeria.
		The raids sparked deadly violence in the Benue state capital, Makurdi, where angry Tiv students from two universities rampaged through the streets Wednesday, armed with sticks, knives and iron bars.
		Red Cross workers said they counted 10 bodies Thursday on the streets of Makurdi, where calm was restored after soldiers enforced a dawn-to-dusk curfew.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20011025/aponline121809_000.htm (532 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Soldiers leave trail of civilian blood in central Nigeria
		MAKURDI, Nigeria, Oct 25 (AFP) - Nigerian soldiers killed some 130 people in a central town to avenge the murder of fellow troops, while more civilians died in neighboring villages, a state governor said Thursday, issuing a new death toll.
		Ten more bodies were recovered in nearby Makurdi, the capital of Nigeria's Benue State, where students had launched violent protests Wednesday over the killings by the army, which had intervened to quell ethnic strife.
		In Makurdi, the correspondent said he saw one body on the Wuruku road in the town.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/c3c476f743419b2285256af0004b8439 (602 words)

	Makurdi - Encyclopedia.com
		AP Worldstream; 4/23/2005; 187 words; AP Worldstream 04-23-2005 Dateline: MAKURDI, Nigeria Dozens of people have died from a cholera outbreak in slum districts in the city of Makurdi in central Nigeria, government officials and residents said...
		In January, Obasanjo visited Makurdi and apologized for the October 2001 army killings, which were...
		Makurdi was reported calm Friday, with dozens of armed police patrolling...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Makurdi.html (963 words)

	Makurdi Hotels
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	Vanguard - Arts: Makurdi alive as GOND mark Dance day
		Shaibu Husseini disclosed that the national secretariat of the dancers’ body moved temporarily to Makurdi, the Benue State capital between April 27 and 29 2005 to observe the celebration with the State branch of the body.
		Inyang further explained that the commemoration in Makurdi tagged ‘Makurdi 2005’ would be the first time that the national celebration would hold outside Lagos since the GOND embarked on commemorating the day in 1995.
		Inyang also explained that commemorating the day in Makurdi afforded the national secretariat the opportunity to formally inaugurate the state chapter of the guild as well as institute a lecture and award scheme in honour of the late sage, Orshio Adake, the famed trumpeter who popularized what is today widely known as ‘Swange Dance’.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at405052005.html (588 words)

	Makurdi, Nigeria, Pictures
		Makurdi is located on the Benue River and supports a shipbuilding industry, which is supplied by the city's numerous sawmills.
		Makurdi is part of the Tiv cultural region.
		Makurdi is the site of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, and the headquarters for the National Air Force Tactical Air Division.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Nigeria/Makurdi_city.html (301 words)

	The Sun News On-line/citysun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Makurdi town is located in the Benue valley on the plane of the Benue River.
		Another good reason is the general tendency to have delayed rains in Makurdi town due to the absence of significant geographical and topographical features.
		Heat period in Makurdi, even though local, coincides with the lowest levels of water in the hydro electric dam that can cause irregular power supply.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/citysun/2004/may/12/citysun-may12-006.htm (1045 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : Fire guts Makurdi Modern Market, destroys goods worth N30bn
		MAKURDI — TWO weeks after hoodlums in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, killed over five persons and destroyed property worth over N50 million over the killing of a commercial bus driver by a policeman at a check-point, the multi-million naira Makurdi Modern Market has been gutted by fire.
		The crisis that rocked Makurdi after the killing of the driver was so severe that the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, had to visit the state to apologize to the people and the family of the late driver, Mr Godwin Anuka.
		Makurdi Modern Market is one of the legacies left behind by the first civilian governor of Benue state, late Mr Aper Aku.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/north/nt416032005.html (916 words)

	Vanguard - National News : Female kidnappers invade Makurdi
		MAKURDI — Kidnappers who specialize in taking females as hostages have invaded Makurdi, the Benue State capital where they strike mostly at nights in the streets of the town.
		One of the victims of the kidnappers who regained freedom after four days of captivity told Saturday Vanguard recently that she was approached by two young men at about 8:30 pm on Onitsha street in the Wurukum area of the town shortly after she had come out of a hair saloon.
		Another resident of Makurdi, who lives near the modern market also told Saturday Vanguard that her niece was kidnapped recently to escort a friend who had visited her.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/nationalx/nr206052006.html (541 words)

	UAM Alumni...About Makurdi
		The state derived its name from the River Benue, the second largest river in the country and the most prominent geographical feature in the state.
		It comprised of only seven local government namely: Gboko, Katsina-ala, Makurdi, Ankpa, Dekina, Idah and Otukpo.
		Several local government creation exercises increased these first to thirteen and later to nineteen.
	www.uamalumni.com /aboutuam/aboutmakurdi.html (220 words)

	The Reformed Ecumenical Council: Starting the Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Assefa returned in August, visiting key community and government leaders to explain what kind of process this was, and to enlist their support.
		The fourth meeting in Makurdi resulted in a public declaration by local leaders.
		In this paper, tribal leaders pledged to work for greater democracy, to stop ethnic considerations in political life, to set an example of social contact with members of other tribes, and to allow appropriate government offices deal with the boundary issues.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=4586 (388 words)

	The Sun News On-line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A victim of the last Jukum/Tiv communal crisis, who finds solace in Makurdi city, Benue State and earns a living through sales of carpet, has cried out to Governor George Akume to rescue him from the hands of the state Urban Development Board which has demolished his only means of livelihood.
		Iyopiye even claimed the boss of the board confirmed to him that his application for approval of a container on the land cannot be approved because of political interest which he could not explain.
		However, Iyopiye headed for a Makurdi High Court and filed a suit with a motion for interlocutory injunction restraining the board, including its agents or servants, from demolishing his business premises pending the determination of the substantive suit filed.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/citysun/2004/mar/10/citysun-mar10-005.htm (489 words)

	News -- Agom’s last moments — Mother-in-law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Speaking to Daily Champion exclusively at her Hudco quarters, High Level, Makurdi residence, Mama Idoko, who appeared to be in her 60s recounted that her son in-law visited her last Tuesday afternoon.
		Supported by mourning relations and sympathisers, the mother of Elizabeth, Chief Agom’s widow, said there was no indication that her son in-law would die shortly.
		A family member who did not want his name in print later told Daily Champion that the late Agom was so fond of his mother-in-law that he could not come to Makurdi and leave "without passing here to see Mama; it’s never happened before".
	odili.net /news/source/2004/mar/5/46.html (319 words)

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		They still lived with their relatives in the village three hours away from Makurdi, but Fidelis could not contribute very much to their support (it was already hard for him to support himself).
		Joy, a new friend who had come from Makurdi to Lagos to work and continue her studies–instead of being offered as a third wife to take some of the financial burden off her family–wanted to go home for Christmas as well.
		His relatives and Josephine obtained permission to take Fidelis’s body to the village near Makurdi for proper burial, and laid him to rest in the back of a little woods, alongside his parents.
	www.traces-cl.com /apr2001/niger.htm (876 words)

	Nigerian policeman pleads guilty to demanding bribe - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		MAKURDI, Nigeria (AP) - A policeman pleaded guilty yesterday to demanding a bribe from a bus driver then shooting him, an incident that sparked riots that left two people dead in central Nigeria.
		Thousands of rioters rampaged Wednesday and Thursday through Makurdi, in central Nigeria's Benue state, burning down two police stations and smashing vehicles after the shooting.
		Makurdi was calm yesterday, with dozens of armed police patrolling the streets.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20050304T180000-0500_76225_OBS_NIGERIAN_POLICEMAN_PLEADS_GUILTY_TO_DEMANDING_BRIBE.asp (233 words)

	Saint Helen's Mission
		He returned to Nigeria in 1985 to be ordained Deacon for the Diocese of Makurdi by Bishop Donal Murray CSSp.
		Joseph was ordained priest on the 9th of August, 1986 by archbishop Gabriel Ganaka of Jos for the Diocese of Makurdi.
		Following his ordination, Father Joseph returned to the seminary system as part of a team that was to found the new Major seminary in Makurdi as a Campus of St. Augustine's Major Seminary in Jos.
	www.sthelensmission.com /pages/vicar.html (956 words)

	Media Rights Agenda...Promoting and Protecting Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
		He was arrested at Benue Hotel, Makurdi where he had gone for an assignment, and then taken to the Government Hose, where he was stripped naked, given 120 strokes with a horse-whip and dumped in a toilet for about four hours.
		The beating was said to have been ordered by the state Administration who was offended by a story entitled “Makurdi – Fire and Sex” written by Orinya and published in the December 8 edition of The News.
		Upon his release, Orinya had to be treated at a private clinic in Makurdi for severe injuries he sustained during the assault.
	mediarightsagenda.org /attdec97.html (1776 words)

	EIR
		Many services were conducted in the open air because the church sanctuaries were filled to overflowing with the displaced people.
		The displaced people had taken refuge in the church buildings after fighting on 21 March led to the destruction of property and homes whose value was put at millions of dollars.
		The violence erupted when members of the Tiv ethnic group attacked the homes of settlers they accused of stealing their land near the Agboghol community on the outskirts of Makurdi, news agencies reported.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /6947_36507_ENG_HTM.htm (288 words)

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		Group Captain E. Eno, head of the bomb unit of the Nigerian Air Force Tactical Command, based in Makurdi, Benue State, told reporters on Monday that bombs and explosives were still being kept at the base more than 10 years after they expired, posing a grave danger to the public.
		Air force munitions experts say the bombs in Makurdi are not only larger in quantity but also of a higher calibre than those that exploded in Lagos.
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	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=36912&SelectRegion=West_Africa (477 words)

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		A senior government official said at least 7 people had died from cholera in Makurdi over the past 2 weeks, but local residents said the true death toll appeared to be nearer to 100.
		Many residents of Makurdi depend on the River Benue, which flows through the city, for drinking water.
		Accounts from residents in the affected districts of Makurdi pointed to a death toll nearer 100.
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	Nigerians riot over bus driver's killing - Africa - MSNBC.com
		MAKURDI, Nigeria - Thousands of rioters wielding sticks and broken bottles burned down a police station Thursday, protesting the police killing of a bus driver who apparently refused to pay a bribe equivalent to 14 cents, officials said.
		Rioting engulfed the capital of Nigeria’s Benue state, Makurdi, on Wednesday night and continued Thursday, said Benue police chief Ibrahim Mohammed.
		Daniel Ior, at Makurdi’s main hospital, said he had treated 60 people for minor injuries.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/7082473 (331 words)

	University of Makurdi, Nigeria - World Leaders of Ethical Business Studies
		University of Makurdi, Nigeria - World Leaders of Ethical Business Studies
		The University of Makurdi, Nigeria is an extension of UniversityofNigeria.com.
		The Makurdi facility was established to accommodate the increase of applicants around the world.
	makurdi.universityofnigeria.com (221 words)

	Right Step, Right Time
		George Akume, governor of Benue State, early last December, helped to avert what could have turned out a major disaster when students of Benue State University, Makurdi went on rampage.
		As early as 6.00 a.m on that day, the students barricaded the major highway leading out of Makurdi, effectively cutting off any traffic on that axis.
		The demonstration forced the school authorities to shut down the school.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10105110326.htm (552 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Death sentences for Nigerian policemen
		The sentence was passed by the High Court in the central town of Makurdi, Benue State on Wednesday.
		Earlier this week, the action of a Nigerian police officer who had acted honestly by returning money he had been wrongly paid, was deemed worthy of an official press release.
		The Makurdi judge said that he had passed the maximum possible sentence to serve as a deterrent to other police officers who have no respect for the rule of law and its due process.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2166620.stm (323 words)

	News -- Gunmen attack Gov Akume, kill Ex-Airways MD, PDP chief, Agom
		Peter Ishoribo, who confirmed the incident, stated that Akume took off for Abuja in the early hours of the morning to attend a meeting at the Presidency.
		However, Ishoribo could not give further details: "As you can see, I am here in Makurdi and I only got information that the Governor's convoy was attacked.
		The Guardian learnt that security has been tightened along the Makurdi -Lafia- Abuja Road, with hundreds of mobile policemen mounting checkpoints.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/mar/4/33.html (892 words)

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		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.
		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.
		Murtala Tanko, a Muslim undertaker in the mainly Islamic Wadata district of the city, said he had buried more than 90 people who died from cholera in the past two weeks.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=46797 (561 words)

	Global Journal of Geological Sciences - Vol. 1, No. 1 (2003)
		This study has focused on the investigation of metal contamination by refuse dumps in Makurdi, Nigeria.
		Soil samples were collected from 17 dump sites and also from a forest to serve as control.
		Finally the concept of pollution index (Pl) of soils was applied to determine the extent of multi-element contamination caused by refuse dumps.
	www.ajol.info /viewarticle.php?id=3611 (282 words)

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