A combined team of the army and police drawn from the police and army formations in Taraba has neutralized 10 Fulani herdsmen, who were using Taraba territory to launch attacks in Adamawa territory. The corpses of the attackers were paraded…
Tag: Herdsmen
BUHARI’S CONFUSING AND DANGEROUS RHETORIC ON HERDSMEN – MOSES E. OCHONU
It makes one dizzy trying to keep up with President Buhari’s shifting, contradictory rhetoric on herdsmen killings. He has alternated between outright denial of herdsmen’s AK-47 possession and suggesting that there could be a new, deadly group of herdsmen, a…
BENUE: 8 FEARED DEAD AFTER HERDSMEN INVASION
Eight persons were feared dead late Saturday night in a fresh attack on Agagbe community, Sengev, Gwer West local government area of Benue after an invasion by suspected herdsmen. It was gathered that the invaders also left scores injured while…
KILLINGS: POPE DECRIES ATTACK ON NIGERIAN CHURCH
Christians protest against killings in various parts of the country by suspected herdsmen… on Sunday. Pope Francis on Sunday decried an attack on a church in Nigeria during which two priests and other worshippers were killed. Associated Press reports that…
FULANI HERDSMEN: FISH OUT CRIMINALS – SULTAN MANDATES MIYETTI ALLLAH
Worried by the incedant clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the country which has resulted in deaths and destruction of lives and properties, the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, has given a…
FG’S DISTURBING SIGNALS ON HERDSMEN
For any well-meaning Nigerian, these are very disturbing times. The orgy of violence visited on some states of the federation, the mass murders of innocent citizens all over the country and the seeming lack of capacity by security agents to…
HERDSMEN/FARMERS CLASHES: OYO GOVT SETS UP TASK FORCE
A task force has been set up by the Oyo state government to look into the increasing cases of kidnapping and clashes between herdsmen and farmers at Oke-Ogun area and other parts of the state. The development was made public…
FARMERS/HERDSMEN CLASHES HAS THE POTENTIAL OF BREAKING THE COUNTRY – UDUAGHAN
Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, and Yusuf Ali, SAN, said, weekend, that incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen were inimical to the survival of Nigeria. While Gambari…
BENUE HERDSMEN CRISIS: COURT STAFF REDEPLOYED
A crisis of confidence is allegedly brewing at a federal high court in Abuja between Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako of the court and some of the staff who are from Benue State. Inside Sources gathered that some of her staff who…
AS HERDSMEN TURN “LANDLORDS” IN DELTA STATE
Unbelievable! That was the reactions of most Nigerians when Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State recently told the Assistant Inspector-General of Police for Zone 5, Mr. Rasheed Akintunde, that owners of farmlands in Uwheru, Ughelli North Local Government Area, now…