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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia have again attacked Tse-Zoola community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen invaded the community early hours of Wednesday and butchered two residents.<\/p>\n

The eldest man in the community, Aho Zoola said the militia herdsmen, without any provocation, attacked the villagers on Wednesday and killed one Zaki Hyacinth Ajon and Benjamin Anakula.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Governor of the State, Samuel Ortom, while returning from burial of one Mrs Bridget Mom, stopped his convoy when he noticed that an incident occurred in the area.<\/p>\n

According to Ortom\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Jimin Geoffrey, the governor asked the residents if they had clashed with the Fulani herders prior to the attack but Aho, the eldest man replied that the villagers have never had any issue with herdsmen even when their herds graze on their crops.<\/p>\n

The governor after sympathising with the villagers displaced from their homes assured them that he would do everything possible to get security agencies to the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia have again attacked Tse-Zoola community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State. DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen invaded the community early hours of Wednesday and butchered two residents. The eldest man in the community, Aho Zoola said the militia herdsmen, without any provocation, attacked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,331,2465,254],"class_list":["post-41591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-benue","tag-herdsmen","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nAgain, suspected herdsmen attack Benue community, butcher two residents - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia have again attacked Tse-Zoola community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Again, suspected herdsmen attack Benue community, butcher two residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia have again attacked Tse-Zoola community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-22T17:57:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6081b3540960a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"919\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Again, suspected herdsmen attack Benue community, butcher two residents\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-22T17:57:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6081b3540960a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Benue\",\"Herdsmen\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/again-suspected-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-butcher-two-residents\",\"name\":\"Again, suspected herdsmen attack Benue community, butcher two residents - 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