The protesters called on the Presidency to bring the culprits to book
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The development has been confirmed by the police
The invaders, described as herdsmen, were armed with several weapons, including AK47
Fayose said this in a statement on Monday
Abubakar made the disclosure at a forum organised by Search for Common Ground, Nigeria in collaboration with the Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development.
Osinbajo spoke at a crowded Lagos conference, tagged: “Towards a Better Nigeria”
Alhaji Abdullahi Babayo, the Director-General of Nomadic Affairs Agency in the state, disclosed this in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Wednesday
Obasanjo made the call at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Niger State Investment Summit held at the Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi Conference Centre, Minna.
The incident came barely three days after four herdsmen were said to have been killed by gunmen in the same area
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Micheal Eneh, who chaired the meeting of the parties in Enugu on Tuesday, said the MoU
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Federal Government supplied the fertiliser and pegged its price at N5,500 per bag
The House had on Tuesday received the report of its Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources on the bill to prohibit open grazing in the State
Buge told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kosubosu, headquarters of the council area, that the measure was to ascertain the identity of the herdsmen moving in as well as put in place proper security measures to avert clashes with farmers
The governor made the appeal when he received a delegation from the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons led by its Federal Commissioner, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday
This was one of the resolutions of the Kwara State Security Council meeting held on Wednesday at the Government House, Ilorin, and chaired by the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed
The Chairman of the Nasarawa State chapter of the Association, Alhaji Mohammed Hussaini, said in Akwanga that farmers should co-exist peacefully with herdsmen to avert violent clashes in the interest of peace
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Bayelsa State Government had donated a grazing land to herdsmen and subsequently banned indiscriminate and open grazing in the state
The Magistrate, Franca Yuwa, remanded the accused at the Makurdi Prisons custody, and adjourned the case till May 10 for mention
The TYI in a statement signed by Folu Olamiti, the Chairman of its Media Committee, alluded to the outcries and complaints from farmers in South West, Delta State, South Eastern states and recently from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in Abuja on the havoc being wreaked by suspected Fulani herdsmen on farmlands
Some of them who narrated their ordeals in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin on Tuesday, said there was the need for the state government to intervene and control the invading herdsmen