Benue State

It is not yet uhuru with respect to this rainy season.

Um, we've had cases of incidents recorded in Bauchi, Edo, Bayelsa, Imo, Rivers, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Anambra, Benue, and Delta states.

And, um, in Bauchi, SEMA identified six local government areas as the worst affected by disasters.

So, um, I, I am hoping that we are prepared.

Five minutes.

Hello, how are you doing? Fine, my name is John and so I'm from Benue State and my side of the family is from this side.

I grew up first in Kaduna and went to Kanu.

Who asked you? Who asked you? Look at Proverbs 17, 27 to verse 28.

They will now clean it and drop Benway State.

after three months stature will increase they will say ah ah he has outgrown Benue they will clean it and draw Nigeria after a while stature will increase they will say ah ah they will clean it and draw Africa after a while stature stature stature in the spirit stature Hear this.

When the devil met Jesus on the Mount of Temptation, what was the negotiation? Territorial influence.

He said, bow to me.

We discussed some plans, some projects that were supposed to take off in the next year.

In fact, the conversation was going sweet because the CEO was trying to execute on some projects that would happen in my home state, in Benue State, in Makudi.

You know, Makudi is the capital of Benue State.

So, you know, it just looked as if everything is sweet, you know, everything gel, everything blend.

Because, you know, it's my home state.

And then I also gave my own example about how I had already started counting dollars in my head because of a project that was going to be done by a, an incubator in Nigeria, a startup incubator in Nigeria, who, um, was receiving financing from, uh, an American, what do you call them? You know all these bodies that give international aid and stuff like that.

So in my own mind, I was calculating my own percentage of how, uh, dollars were entering inside my own account once we start running this project in Benue State.

Uh, but anyway, you hear the full story about how everything scattered, uh, because I didn't quite, um, sort all of that, um, out.

That's talking to all the relevant decision, um, decision-makers.

And in Niger State, security forces recently fired on protesters who were demanding justice following the deaths of detained illegal miners who died while in police custody.

Though on a positive note, military operations in Benue successfully rescued several kidnap victims.

These events might seem disconnected, but they highlight the vast spectrum of challenges Nigerian decision-makers face.

When we look at how to secure the nation, we see contrasting perspectives.