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
Browsing: herdsmen
According to the cardinal, the leaders must assume the responsibility of governance by securing the land from those he called armed robbers, kidnappers and herdsmen
This is coming barely two weeks after a village in Ukum Local Government Area was attacked
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
ASP Stephen Nwanchor, the Public Relations Officer of the NPS in Benue State confirmed the development
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
No one had addressed the protesters as at press time
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
He also called for unity and brotherliness among governors and leaders in the South West zone
Thousands (yes THOUSANDS!!!) of Christian Biafran youths and members of Indigenous People of Biafra have been slaughtered all over the South East and South South by the Sunni-Muslim led Nigerian security agencies since Buhari came to power just under two years ago yet no arrests have been made
Entonu made the appeal in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja
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
The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the rumoured killing of a farmer working on his farm by herdsmen in the early hours of Tuesday triggered the crisis
Police prosecutor, Samson Osobu, said the accused and others now at large committed the offence on January 11 at Apoto farm settlement, Eporo, Emure-Ekiti
Alhaji Ibrahim Inga, the Director-General of the state Emergency Management Agency, told newsmen on Friday that the clash had displaced over 6,000 people already
The police had on Sunday declared three Mobile Policemen dead
The policemen were among those drafted to secure Kwayine, Gidan Dadi and Karlahi communities after clashes that followed the killing of 47 cattle in the area
Abubakar, who was on tour of media locations in the country, disclosed this to newsmen in Warri, Delta State on Friday
This was contained in a statement issued by the Press Secretary to the Minister, Ehisienmen Osaigbovo, on Friday in Abuja