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After suspected herders attacked farming communities in Taraba State’s Bali Local Government Area, one person was hurt and sixty-two homes were destroyed.

Following a dispute over a source of water, Channels Television learned the attack.

Between the villages of Tor Bali and Atongo, a pond serves as the water’s source, and Fulani herders argue over it.

A woman went to the pond to get water after being confronted by a cow, who was trying to get her water, and the chairman of Bali Local Government Area, Aboki Dauda, who claimed peace was broken.

The herders allegedly beat her after that. Later, the incident caused the woman to raise an alarm, which sparked outcry from her neighborhood.

“Thank God that no life was lost,” the author writes, “This was terrible. You can see homes being destroyed, people being displaced, but it’s amazing that no one has died.”

The Fulani herders brought their cattle there to start the trouble, and a woman who went there confronted them for spoiling the water by asking their cattle to drink from the same place, he said.

Then, with their sticks, they attacked her, and she fell, cried, and called the husband and her neighbors to help, and from there, the conflict spread throughout both communities.

“I called the local government secretariat’s herders’ leaders with a brave move. We have identified them, and we have warned that they will be held accountable if they do so again. We have a problem with Fulani herders because they don’t listen to their parents.

Ezekiel Gboo, a farmer in Tor Baki village, narrowly avoided passing away, when he said: “We were working on our farms when we saw them come from different directions with sticks and machetes and we had to flee for our lives.”

I called our Tiv leader, who instructed me to leave the police station right away, while I was running, and I pulled out my phone. I was able to escape without going any further. When they struck me with sticks and cutlasses when I stopped, they pounced on me, and that is how they injured me. They were about 30 when they struck me.

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The Taraba State Government says it will not tolerate any peaceful resolutions, whether through farmer-herder conflicts or communal clashes.

When its delegation traveled to the affected area to offer food as a source of comfort and appealed for peaceful coexistence among feuding factions, the Taraba State Government made this statement.

Saviour Noku, the Taraba State Commissioner for Special Duties and Humanitarian Affairs, welcomed the delegation led by Zaki Gbaa, the Tiv community leader.

Let’s try to live peacefully with our neighbors because I know you’re a peaceful people and want us to take lessons from what has happened. Let’s give peace another chance.

“Be proactive, stop a crisis, and be proactive is always less expensive.

The phrase “what we have created is only an interim measure” is true. The commissioner said, “I am aware that we have more plans to make you comfortable and bring you back to your ancestral homes.”

Veronica Alhassan, a member of the delegation from the Taraba State House of Assembly, requested that they embrace tranquility and reject all forms of bitterness.

The delegation also made a visit to Bakundi Palace’s chief, asking the traditional ruler for his assistance.

Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, stated on Friday that the Federal Capital Territory Administration had given compensation to all property owners who had been impacted by the Arterial Road N5’s construction.

Wike, who made the disclosure while speaking at the opening of the first phase of the newly constructed road, known as the Obafemi Awolowo Way, said he remained committed to paying the property owners despite claims that they should not be compensated because they are not non-indigenes.

He continued, “I never knew there was a place like this before until they brought the documents for me to present to the BPP and the Federal Executive Council, even when it was awarded.” However, we had a serious issue with the communities&nbsp, along with our customary method of finding out where the projects are and whether what they are doing corresponds to what we agreed. Of course, compensation was also required.

People who were living here were said to be non-indigenes and therefore don’t deserve compensation until this job would have been ended. I claimed that because he is not an indigenous person, there is someone living in his home and that you want to tear it down. I refrained from saying that is not acceptable.

“I told them all to be paid, and they were,” I said. And that is how we went down this path.

The project’s second phase will be inaugurated before the end of the year, according to the minister.

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Tinubu has succeeded.

President Bola Tinubu has done well, according to Wike, citing the quality of the project.

He claimed, however, that paying taxes would not be sufficient to provide infrastructure.

You will be aware that President Tinubu has done well for the Federal Capital Territory by the time you drive down and admire the area’s beauty, which is what it requires to support a leader who cares deeply for his country.

There are challenges, of course, and we can’t avoid them. At the end of the day, I can assure everyone in this country, especially the people who live in Abuja, that there are people who care about this country, the minister added.

The road, according to President Tinubu’s representative, George Akume, the secretary to the Federation’s government, exemplifies what can be achieved when vision and action collide.

He noted that it reflected the administration’s commitment to providing modern infrastructure that enhances people’s daily lives.

The legacy of forward-thinking leadership is now being carried into the future of our capital city, according to Akume.

The president’s team, according to the Kaduna State Police Command, had “psychiatric disorders” as a child when they were commissioning projects in Murtala Mohammed Square.

In a statement, the Command’s spokesman, DSP Mansir Hassan, claimed the person, an Anguwan Muazu native from Kaduna, was Umar Mohammed.

The police acknowledged that the man, who was an All Progressives Congress (APC) supporter, was screened and accepted into the stadium while sporting the typical campaign T-shirt and carrying banners emblazoned with President and Governor Uba Sani, just like everyone else who has been accepted into the stadium.

The person jumped into the restricted arena out of curiosity to see the President, according to the police, who claimed the person had broken the law out of excitement. The security team immediately detained the fellow, according to the police, and the officer was immediately obstructing him.

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The suspect was thoroughly searched, according to the police, and no evidence of incrimination was discovered in his possession.

Meanwhile, Rabiu Muhammad, the commissioner of police for Kaduna State, has cautioned mischief-stifters and the general public to refrain from politicizing the incident or spreading false information.

President Bola Tinubu’s visit to Benue State was criticized by Franc Utoo, an indigenous resident of Yelwata town in Benue State, saying the majority of the people they met were dignitaries from Abuja and not Yelwata people whose relatives were allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen.

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In an incident involving a cult-related shooting in Oko, in the state’s Orumba North Local Government Area, the Anambra State Police Command confirmed the deaths of two people and the abduction of two others.

Federal Polytechnic Oko is located in the town.

Two other people, including a female, were saved from the scene of the shooting, according to the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Tochukwu Ikenga, who released a statement on Friday. They are currently receiving treatment in a hospital.

A joint security force has taken control of the location, according to the statement, and police are already using eyewitnesses’ information to make possible arrests of the armed hoodlums.

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The Joint Security Force, which includes the Army, Navy, Civil Defense, and Vigilante Operatives, is assisting the Police Operatives’ efforts to take over the scene of an alleged cult-related shooting at the Total Junction and Tipper Junction, both of which are located in Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area, at 8.40pm on June 19, 2025.

“A woman who is currently receiving treatment in a hospital was saved,” according to the rescuers. Sadly, the incident also allegedly claimed the deaths of two people and the alleged abduction of two others.

“An eyewitness account revealed that the armed criminals, who were carrying a motorcycle and a black Lexus 350 SUV without a license plate, began firing indiscriminately at the Total junction.

“A lady is currently receiving treatment at the hospital, among others, was allegedly hurt.” The two others’ statements were allegedly part of a statement that claimed they had been abducted at the Tipper junction before fleeing.

The Command has urged caution and maintained that the operatives are already using eyewitnesses’ data to facilitate the arrest of the hoodlums. They claim that they are already using some clues from the scene.