{"id":160193,"date":"2025-04-22T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community"},"modified":"2025-04-22T23:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:51:44","slug":"again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community","title":{"rendered":"Again, suspected herdsmen kill 11 in Benue community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Barely a week after suspected armed herders massacred over 50 farmers in parts of Benue State, fresh violence erupted in the early hours of Tuesday as gunmen stormed Afia community in Ukum Local Government Area, killing 11 residents and leaving several others injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Ter Ukum, His Royal Highness, Chief Iyorkyaa Kaave, disclosed in Makurdi while addressing a security meeting convened to assess the spate of violence in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the attack as unprovoked and part of a calculated agenda to displace indigenous farmers, the monarch condemned the continued loss of lives and property in his domain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I speak to you, these attacks began on Thursday in Logo and by Good Friday had spread to several communities in Ukum. We are still counting the dead, recovering more corpses and many of our people remain missing,\u201d the monarch lamented.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Tuesday\u2019s attack on Afia was particularly brutal, as the armed assailants stormed the community at dawn, firing sporadically at residents and leaving eleven dead on the spot, while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Kaave expressed fears that the armed herders are bent on displacing local populations to seize their lands, noting that the situation has reached a crisis point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people are different from the Fulani we knew and lived peacefully with in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, they would come during the dry season with their families and cattle. But what we are witnessing now are armed men with AK-47s, attacking our people in their sleep, and returning to occupy their homes,\u201d the monarch stated.<\/p>\n<p>He urged President Bola Tinubu to take decisive action, warning against any move to negotiate with those behind the killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president should understand this clearly \u2014 we do not want to settle with murderers. These people have a hidden but now obvious agenda: to kill, displace and occupy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Barely a week after suspected armed herders massacred over 50 farmers in parts of Benue State, fresh violence erupted in the early hours of Tuesday as gunmen stormed Afia community in Ukum Local Government Area, killing 11 residents and leaving several others injured. The Ter Ukum, His Royal Highness, Chief Iyorkyaa Kaave, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[331,254],"class_list":["post-160193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-benue","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Again, suspected herdsmen kill 11 in Benue community - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barely a week after suspected armed herders massacred over 50 farmers in parts of Benue State, fresh violence erupted in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Again, suspected herdsmen kill 11 in Benue community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barely a week after suspected armed herders massacred over 50 farmers in parts of Benue State, fresh violence erupted in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-22T21:48:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-22T22:51:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745349716.921193.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Again, suspected herdsmen kill 11 in Benue community\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-22T21:48:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-22T22:51:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community\"},\"wordCount\":331,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745349716.921193.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Benue\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/again-suspected-herdsmen-kill-11-in-benue-community\",\"name\":\"Again, suspected herdsmen kill 11 in Benue community - 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