The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has banned herdsmen whose families are not resident in the south-east from grazing in the region. The organisation took the decision alongside the Northern Leaders and Livestock and Perishable Goods Market traders after a meeting in Enugu state on Saturday.Speaking to journalists about the development, Gidado Siddiki, MACBAN south-east chairman, said the [...]
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Ibeleji Chidinma, a deaconess in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has recounted how she gained freedom from her abductors on Saturday.Chidinma and four other passengers were abducted on Friday along the Benin-Sagamu expressway in Ogun state while heading to Lagos from the eastern part of the country and were taken to the forest.Chidinma was rescued in the [...]
Priests in the Catholic Diocese of Enugu state hit the streets on Friday to protest the alleged continued attacks targeted at them.The priests marched through major streets in their hundreds, carrying placards with inscriptions urging the state government to urgently address the "rising insecurity" in the state.They were at the state government house as well as the state police command [...]
Bandits, cattle rustlers have been granted amnesty by governors in the north-west. This was disclosed by Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina state, who read a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day security and reconciliation meeting with security agents, vigilante, volunteer groups, herdsmen and farmers on Thursday in Katsina.Over the months, many lives have been lost in clashes between farmers [...]
Kayode Ajulo, human rights lawyer, says the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria have set up a vigilante group in Ondo state, mounting checkpoints along the highway.In a post on social media, he said he had an encounter with the armed men while travelling from the Akoko area of the state to Abuja.“It is quite true that I was [...]
Lamidi Adeyemi, alaafin of Oyo, has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari saying people in the south-west are worried about the "criminal activities of herdsmen" in the region.In the letter issued on Sunday, the monarch said the people are fast losing their patience and may resort to self-help to protect their lives and properties.Adeyemi said the herdsmen, who sometimes [...]
Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, and Igbo leaders in the state have rejected calls by some northern political leaders that herdsmen in the southern part of the country relocate to the north.According to a statement by Abba Anwar, chief secretary to Ganduje, the governor spoke during a special dinner organised to honour Boniface Ibekwe, Eze Ndigbo Kano, on his [...]
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has asked herdsmen across the country to defend themselves against ethnic militia groups.In an interview with Punch published on Saturday, Saleh Alhassan, national secretary of the group, said herdsmen can exercise their right to free movement as Nigerians.He said governors in the south would be held responsible if there is an attack on herdsmen."We are Nigerians [...]
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) says it will hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible if any northerner is attacked in the south.Abdul-Azeez Sulieman, spokesman of the group, said this in a statement on Thursday.The statement was released after Buhari told herdsmen to disregard a call to vacate the southern part of the country.The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) had asked herdsmen to leave [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday told herdsmen to disregard the call to vacate the southern part of the country.The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) had asked herders to leave the southern part of the country if their safety is no longer guaranteed.But speaking through Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, the president said no one has the right to ask anyone or group [...]
BY MIRIAM SHEHUFor those familiar with the Holy Scriptures, the idea of a Promised Land was a significant component of the migration of the Jews from the land of Egypt. It was a migration anchored on the promise of a land flowing with milk and honey. For the promise of this land to materialise, it simply meant that the previous [...]
Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese, says demonising herdsmen, especially those of the Fulani extraction, could lead to a breakout of violence. Kukah, who spoke on Tuesday at a colloquium on fake news and hate speech organised by the Olusegun Obasanjo centre for African studies, an arm of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), said hate speech often precedes [...]
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has asked herdsmen to leave the southern part of the country if their safety is no longer guaranteed.Speaking after a meeting with the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNGs), Ango Abdullahi, chairman of the forum, said there was a move by some "trouble elements" to harm herdsmen in the southern part of the country.The coalition had threatened [...]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written yet another letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.This comes more than a year after the letter he wrote to the president generated so much uproar. He had criticised Buhari, asking him not to seek another term.In the new letter dated July 15, Obasanjo said he is very worried over the high level of insecurity in [...]
Bola Tinubu, a national of leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says those blaming herdsmen for the death of Funke Olakurin, daughter of Reuben Fasoranti, do not have evidence.Speaking when he paid a condolence visit to the family of Fasoranti in Akure, Ondo state capital, the APC leader said kidnapping is not peculiar to any ethnic group or a [...]
Kehinde, one of the sons of Reuben Fasoranti, Afenifere leader, says some policemen told him that suspected herdsmen carried out the attack which led to the death of his sister.Olakunrin, 58, was murdered along Benin-Ore highway while returning to Lagos after visiting her father in Akure, Ondo state capital, on Friday.Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Afenifere, had blamed the incident on [...]
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