There is a deleterious cancer eating deep into our national fabric and this is the herdsmen era. With the increasing campaign and advocacy from community based organizations, civil societies and the media against this menace, political leaders are yet to rise up to their onus of finding a cure to this disease that is gradually…
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, ordered the remand of one Momodu Rebo, 19, and Isiaka Idris, 22, in prison custody over alleged destruction of farm crops. Police prosecutor, Samson Osobu, said the accused and others now at large, committed the offence on January 11 at Apoto farm settlement, Eporo, Emure-Ekiti. He said police recovered…
Reports say scores of people have been feared dead in rural communities in Benue State by some suspected Fulani herdsmen. Survivors and victims of herdsmen attacks in Logo and Ukum council areas in Benue State claimed not less than 81 persons lost their lives were killed in the last two weeks. The traditional ruler of…
Reports say some heavily armed gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen stormed not less than six communities in Benue State, attacking anything in sight. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Monday while residents of the areas touched by the herdsmen were enjoying the public holiday declared by the Federal Government to mark Democracy…
President Muhammadu Buhari says he has directed security agencies across the country to henceforth deal decisively with any herdsmen that attack innocent Nigerians. Buhari made this known when he received the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday. He said his administration is prepared to deal decisively and…
fulani The Federal Government has stressed that the recently clashes between herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the country could affect Nigeria’s unity. Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, who spoke the opening session of the Strategic Stakeholders Meeting on the Pastoralists/Sedentary Farmers Conflict in Nigeria held in Abuja recently, noted that a complex approach…
In a move to restore law and order in Plateau and Bauchi States, the governments, through the Operation Safe Haven, OPSH, have placed curfew on the herdsmen and cattle. The task force announced that from 7pm, cattle and herdsmen would not be allowed to move in the Plateau State and parts of Bauchi State in…