NIGERIA RECEIVES ACCOLADES AS WATER RESOURCES MINISTER SHOWCASES KASHIMBILLA DAM

Nigeria yesterday in Sweden was applauded for her efforts in constructing the multi-billion naira Kashimbilla dam as one of the global example of connecting the nexus of food, water and energy.
Speaking at the African Focus Day at the 24th edition of the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Reng Ochekpe said that the Dam which cost the federal government $1 billion would generate about 30 mega watt of electricity to Benue and Taraba states.
Ochekpe said that project was undertaken by the government as a preventive measure to cushion the likely eventual breakage of Lake Nyos in the Cameroun would also be used for irrigation purposes.

9 Fulani herdsmen gang-rape 15-yr-old girl, 2 housewives

MAKURDI — No fewer than nine suspected Fulani herdsmen, yesterday, allegedly gang-raped a 15-year-old girl and two housewives (names withheld) at gunpoint, in Tse Ikyuer, Yandev, Mbagwen in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
Two of the victims, who narrated their ordeal to Vanguard in Makurdi, the state capital, said after beating and raping them, the herdsmen also made away with their N60,000 and two phones.
According to the women, who could barely walk, “one of us (the teenage girl) was raped repeatedly, after being thoroughly beaten by the herdsmen. At the moment, she is neither able to walk nor talk.”
Before they were taken to an undisclosed hospital in Makurdi for medical attention by the Police, the women, who spoke at intervals, said: “The men with their leader came to our home in the afternoon and pleaded that we give them water to drink.