The influx of herdsmen into Miga local government area of Jigawa state is currently causing panic among residents. Some of the herders are believed to be from Niger Republic. Kawu Magaji, the local government secretary who confirmed the development to journalists, attributed the influx of the herders to a recent violent clash between farmers and herders in Hadejia axis of the state. He [...]
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Muhammad Sulaiman, the executive secretary of Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), has said 40 villages in the state are now flooded. Sulaiman told NAN in Yola, the state's capital on Saturday, that the flooding is as a result of the heavy downpour recorded in the last three days in some parts of the state. He said a majority of the affected [...]
The Ugandan government has made it mandatory for farmers in the country to get birth certificates for their cows. Vincent Ssempijja, the country's minister for agriculture, animal industry and fisheries, announced this on Wednesday. The East African reports that the registration is part of requirements for food exportation to European countries so that food can be traced. "They want to know where the [...]
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of "deploying federal might" to promote the interest of one ethnic group over others. The group was reacting to Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, comment that Ruga settlement proposed by the federal government is not for herders alone. In a statement signed by Yinka Odumakin (south-west); Chigozie Ogbu (south-east); Bassey Henshaw (south-south) [...]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launched a multi-million euro fund which provides loans and equity investments for rural small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), farmers' organisations, agricultural entrepreneurs and rural financial institutions across the globe. The agribusiness capital (ABC) fund launched during IFAD’s annual general council meeting in Rome, Italy, seeks to mobilise 200 million euros from investors [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria will stop importing rice by next year. According to Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Osinbajo said this on Sunday at the palace of Musa Dogonkadai, the Seriki of the Hausa community in Agege, Lagos. He said leaders of those countries help their farmers to expand their farms so that they [...]
THE IFURE ATAIFURE The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Enough is Enough (EiE), and BudgIT have been doing great work. Nigerians like them and they get positive press for their efforts, which they should do everything possible not to abuse. SERAP has been at the forefront of utilizing the Freedom of Information Act, often dragging recalcitrant government ministries, departments and agencies [...]
Abubakar Elkanemi, shehu of Borno, says the people of the state are still under Boko Haram seige. Elkanemi said this when President Muhammadu Buhari paid him a courtesy call at his palace in Shehuri, Maiduguri, on Thursday. The monarch dismissed claims by security operatives that the ongoing military operations, particularly in some parts of the state and the Lake Chad region, was [...]
The first approach to solving a security problem is stripping it of all political pretences and nuances. The killings in Plateau, Benue, Zamfara and other places should be properly phrased. The casual resort to tagging or reducing mass killings or massacres to "farmers-herders clashes" is sadism. It mocks the dead and drives a dagger deeper into the wounds of the [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the clashes between farmers and herdsmen date back to 1948. The minister said this on Thursday when he received a delegation of permanent secretaries led by Winfred Oyo-Ita, head of the service of the federation. Mohammed said though the misunderstanding is as a result of "an environmental situation", politicians are trying to make gains out of it. "The [...]
BY DAVID EMOCHE Herdsmen-farmers’ crisis in Nigeria has left deep wounds in the heart of many. The thought of the hundreds of lives that have been wiped off the face of the earth or the several viable communities deserted in the middle-belt region of the country is black and unbearable. Furthermore, the crushing experience has thrown the entire country into a [...]
Muhammd Sanusi II, emir of Kano, has asked the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), to expose criminal herdsmen among them. Speaking at a national executive council meeting of MACBAN at Minna, Niger state on Sunday, Sanusi said not all herdsman are criminals. The emir said Nigerians should avoid "ethnic profiling" whenever a crime is committed. "Nigerians should avoid ethnic profiling [...]
As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate's distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy of it all. The authorities in Abuja would rather indulge in the profanity of buck-passing, lamented Professor Wole Soyinka. That climate of shame would appear to have grown even more inclement and the midnight children of impunity more [...]
Rice farmers have appealed to the federal government to maintain the ban on rice importation, saying this would boost local production. Jamilu Ibrahim, chairman of rice farmers in Daura, Katsina state, said this in an interview with NAN on Monday. He said maintaining the ban would protect farmers and boost local rice consumption in the country. He said the farmers would increase their production capacity [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says majority of those who went for hajj this year are farmers. Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is a pilgrimage to Mecca. All Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime if they can afford to do so. In an interview with Zain Asher, a CNN journalist, the vice-president said farmers could afford [...]
Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has urged commercial banks to lower interest rates for farmers to enable them to access loans for agriculture. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Niger state investment summit in Minna on Monday, Obasanjo said high interest rate was one of the challenges farmers face. While explaining that it was difficult for farmers to pay back loans and [...]
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