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DAREDEVIL Fulani herdsmen, on Friday, shot at the convoy of former Senate President, David Mark, during his assessment tour of the destroyed Agatu communities in Benue State. The former Senate President, however, escaped unhurt. Mark was in company with the erstwhile Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro; a member House of the Representatives for Ohimini/Otukpo, Constituency, Honourable Ezekiel Adaji, security aides, journalists and party supporters during the tour of the eight communities. The communities are Aila, Akwu, Okokolo, Adagbo, Akwu, Ogboju and Odugbeho, which have been destroyed by Fulani herdsmen. The convoy was at Akwu community when some fleeing herdsmen sighted the convoy and shot at it, causing members of the lawmaker’s convoy to scamper for safety. The security men attached to the convoy were ordered to remain calm and not exchange fire. The former Senate President thereafter ordered that the convoy continue to move. Saturday Tribune observed that the ei...

The Federal Government has ap­proved the deployment of sol­diers to the state to end the lin­gering farmers/herdsmen crisis in the state. The state governor, Samuel Ortom made the disclosure yes­terday while administering Oath of Office on the President, Cus­tomary Court of Appeal (CCA), Justice Cosmos Idye and a High Court judge, Justice Augustine Ityonyiman. The governor said the inva­sion of some communities by Fu­lani herdsmen in the state was taking a worrisome dimension stressing that “more Local Gov­ernment Areas are being attacked on daily basis”. “As we speak, the Fulanis have started moving out of Agatu to other parts of the state. What we are witnessing today in Benue State is more than what happened in the North-East,” Ortom said. The governor listed Agatu, Logo, Tarka, Buruku, and Kwan­de as part of places currently at­tack by the Fulani mercenaries. Ortom urged the judiciary nationwide to support the feder­al government’s anti-corruption crusade through effe...

The Presidency has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is free to investigate former President Goodluck Jonathan, according to PUNCH reports. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, who stated this in Abuja on Friday, also explained that there was no secret pact between President Buhari and Jonathan to exclude the ex-President from the list of corrupt people to be probed by this administration. There have been calls by prominent Nigerians, including the Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, that Buhari should authorise the EFCC to probe and prosecute Jonathan. Ndume had said, “Nobody is supposed to be above the law. If Jonathan is a culprit, he should face the law. If there is evidence that the former President should face the law, then, he should. After all, he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.” Adesina revealed that the Presidency had given the anti-corruption body a free hand to investigate and try anybody involved in corru...