15 States, Include Osun and Ekiti Are Most Prone To Electoral Violence by 2015 General Elections

A non-governmental organisation CLEEN Foundation has revealed through its research that 15 states in Nigeria may be destabilised by electoral violence during the 2015 general elections.


The organisation made the revelations in Abuja on April 9, 2014, Wednesday, while presenting the report titled 'Third Security Threat Assessment'. The NGO, which promotes public safety, security, and access to justice, warned of high security risks in the spotted areas during the 2015 general elections.

According to CLEEN Foundation, the states to watch out for as 'most volatile' are: Adamawa, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Osun, Plateau, Rivers, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara.

Fulani Herdsmen Targeting FCT - Army Raises The Alarm, Distress call saves community as troops continue onslaught on terrorists

The Nigerian Army  yesterday raises alarm that the herdsmen that have been attacking and killing innocent people in some states in the north are targeting the Fedral Capital Territory, Abuja, the seat of the government. 

The Military cautions the populace against identifying with them. Fulani herdsmen, who have been operating under the cover of the night, according to the military, were hired by some unscrupulous faceless people to unleash terror on the populace.

The terrorists have killed about 2, 000 innocent people in the last few weeks. Security forces have been dispatching troops to Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau states at the directive of President Goodluck Jonathan. Some top officers that were sent to Benue on fact-finding mission were said to have written a damning report that showed that the herdsmen were coming into the country from the neighbouring countries to attack, kill and destroy.

"It is inhuman to take another man’s life just because you are unhappy with a situation" - David Mark

The Nigerian President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has once again raises the alarm over the various killings and incessant attacks that have overshadow the Image of the country, raging from the concurrent Boko Haram attacks and killing of innocent people in the Nigeria's North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa to the North Central , where Fulani Herdsmen and Tiv peoples are also engaging themselves bloody clashes that have claimed many live while hundreds of people have  been displaced in the affected states

These states include Benue, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Traba, Plateau and Zamfara. Mark through his twitter page says 'it is inhuman to take another man’s life just because you are unhappy with a situation.'

Mass Exodus of Tiv Community begins in Taraba as herdsmen attack continues

As it seems that the Taraba state government refused to address the ongoing attacks by the Fulani herdsmen on the Tive people, the continuous herdsmen attacks has been forcing the  Tiv community to move out of the state en-mass to the neighbouring state of Benue.

 The movement has become necessary, some Tiv people opined, following the I don’t care attitudes of the Taraba state government towards setting up machineries to protect the lives and properties of the Tiv people in the state.

Heightened Tension in Benue, Plateau, Kaduna, Niger Following the Nasarawa 20

Following the aftermath of the Thursday massacre of the Fulani Herdsmen in Nasarawa state, heightened tensions has griped the surrounding states of Benue, Plateau, Kaduna and Niger.

The alleged killing of at least twenty Fulani herdsmen at a funeral in a settlement near Keana, Nasarawa State, has caused panic in the state and neighbouring states.

The reports has it that 20 people were killed by the soldiers that invaded the Islamic funeral rite but that the death toll rose to 25 as at yesterday after six more victims died following the wounds sustained in the attack. It was gathered that the six additional victims died in hospitals in Keana and Lafia .

Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Alhaji Sale Bayari, confirmed that 18 of the dead Fulani victims have been buried at a settlement along Giza road, Gidan Ardo Sodangi axis in the Keana Local Government Area of the state.

Senator Olubunmi Adetunmb - "President Jonathan: It is time to halt the fiddling"

“The President has spent a great part of the current year junketing across the globe with public funds in needless ventures that could have been handled by subordinates in government.”

In the classic, Quo Vadis, a 1951 American epic film adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz’s classic 1896 masterpiece, Emperor Nero is said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned. 

The most contemporary parallel of that fable is perhaps the tenure of Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. 
The allusion to the ancient Roman leader who according to legend played his fiddle while Rome burned may not be misplaced when juxtaposed with the disconcerting happenings in the polity especially in the security sector and the reaction of the Jonathan led administration.

Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar described it as ‘mind-boggling’ in a recent interview. The killings at the headquarters of the State Security Service, SSS, a stone throw from the Presidential villa, as a result of an alleged jailbreak clearly shows the huge security challenges the present administration is currently facing.

House Of Reps Condemn Chemical Attacks In Benue By Fulani Herdsmen

Nigerian  House of Representatives, on Thursday, under Matters of Urgent Public Importance condemned the alleged use of chemical weapons and other forms of attacks on Benue communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen that have left many dead and others displaced.

Chairman of Committee on Women Affairs, Christina Alaaga,  directed the Department of State Security (DSS), the Army and the Nigeria Police to expose  those behind the incessant  killings of the innocent peoples and bring them to book. 

The Nigerian Army as since deployed troops and officers to the troubled areas which covered three states of Nasarawa, Benue and Kastina.

The troop in a fire for fire encountered with the Fulani Herdsmen , yesterday, killed over fifty of the suspected attackers in Keana local government area of Nasarawa state.

Attacks For Attacks: Benue indigenes in America vow to fund youths to defend themselves

As the persistent attacks and killings continues in some communities in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states by the suspected Fulani herdsmen, Tiv sons and daughters in America  became furious and have restated their resolute determinations to fund their communities to defend themselves if the Federal Government failed to intervene.

Alarm: Boko Haram Insurgents Now Disguise As Herdsmen

Nigerian Governors yesterday raised the alarm over the infiltration of their states by suspected mercenaries posing as Fulani cattle rearers. 

The bandits are quite different from Fulani and well-armed, the governors said. Boko Harm insurgents disguise as military men, they use AK-47 and their mission are not known, said the governors who fear that the insurgents may unleash terror on 17 states.