Akeredolu had on Monday via his Twitter handle handed down the order to the herders, including the arrest of those who are underaged with immediate effect.
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The letter leaves me in no doubt that the stakes for good governance, built on universal tribal participation of all federating nationalities, are high on Umar’s patriotic pulse and that he is ready to wage all his life on redrawing the skewed tribal composition of the president’s appointments so far.
The Justice Ministry needs a better head than the current Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, especially in a nether Nigerian universe of shifting political, social and security paradigms. South West, my hometown, is now the epicenter of a new, explosive and racy geopolitical struggle between saints and sinners, war and peace, freedom and lockdown, wisdom and foolishness, good breeding and barbarism, tact and stupidity.
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, on Wednesday, condemned the killing of Alhaji Abdu Balli, the Chairman of Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani socio-cultural group in the state.
Ogundoyin stated this on the floor of the house while reacting to insinuations that the bill was an attempt by the legislative to undermine the economic activities of the Fulanis spread across the state.
Jibrin told newsmen in his Nasarawa country home on Tuesday in Nasarawa State that the proposed settlement policy for herdsmen would promote peace and security in the country
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, alongside Igbo leaders in Kano have rejected call by some Northern political leaders that Fulani herdsmen in the Southern part of the country relocate to the North.
President Muhammadu Buhari is not only giving Nigeria a bad name with his handling of the herdsmen crisis, the good people of Fulani should also understand that the president might have equally damaged their brand around the world.
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have killed Funke Olakunrin, the 58-year-old daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Ruben Fasoranti.
The Commissioner of Police in Zamfara, Usman Nagogo, on Monday met with hundreds of Fulanis living in the state in his bid to amicably end the raging banditry in the state.
The police in Taraba have confirmed the death of six people following Thursday’s clash between Kona and Fulani groups in Jalingo Local Government Area of the state.
A fierce dispute has broken out between two rival kidnapping gangs after an eight-month pregnant-woman, who is a wife to a member of one of the gangs, was abducted by the opposing group in a place in North Western Nigeria.
The Fulani community in parts of Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State, have abandoned the area after an attack on February 11, which left 66 of them, mostly women and children dead.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that they also pledged readiness to live in peace and harmony with communities where their members are operating commercial ventures.
The farmers, who spoke with newsmen in several villages in the two local governments, said that they were enjoying “sweet peace” in their natural abodes.
The statement, which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Makurdi, recalled that Benue people voted overwhelmingly for former presidents Shehu Shagari and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 1979, 1983 and 2007 respectively.
The deafening thunder was accompanied by a downpour recorded in parts of the state in last couple of days.
Nasarawa state government has donated N500,000 each to the families of three police officers killed during the communal crisis between Agatu and Fulani on June 3, at Loko village in Nasarawa Local Government Area.
The Emir of Anka and Chairman of Zamfara Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, said this while speaking with newsmen in Anka on Thursday.
Lalong sounded this note of warning while addressing participants at the All Progressives Congress stakeholders meeting held in Jos.