…a DPO and five others were killed in separate attacks in the area last week Five people have been killed in another attack on the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by assailants suspected herders. The Naka Divisional Police Officer(DPO) Mamud Abubakar, a Superintendent of Police, and five others were killed in separate
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‘The lynching occurred after the suspects forcefully snatched a motorcycle from a farmer’ The Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressives Union, (BEPU) says available records to villagers in Birnin-Gwari show that the ‘herders’ lynched by a mob in Kaduna State on Sunday were terrorists mercenaries from the Republic of Sudan. Chairman of BEPU Ishaq Kasai, in a statement,
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Thirty-five people have been killed in fighting between semi-nomadic herders and farmers in southeastern Chad in recent days, according to a senior official. The deaths occurred in Salamat province where farmers were attacked when they encountered a roadblock, provincial secretary-general Mara Maad told AFP news agency on Wednesday. The farmer blamed local cattle herders and
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Two persons have reportedly been killed while an operational vehicle and motorcycles belonging to the Ondo State Security Network Agency known as the Amotekun Corps, were set ablaze by suspected herdsmen. The unknown persons allegedly attacked the Sanusi Village in Owo local government area of Ondo State on Thursday. According to the state Public Relations
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The Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun, on Tuesday arrested two armed Fulani herdsmen and their cows numbering 200 along Ijare -Irese Road in the Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State. The suspects were alleged to have used their cows to destroy some crops on the farms of some farmers in the area. They
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Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has lambasted elder statesman, Paul Unongo for advising President Muhammadu Buhari to deploy soldiers to the South-West zone to “protect Northerners”. Fani-Kayode in a Twitter thread on Sunday described Unongo’s advice as “reckless, irresponsible and dangerous”. Unongo, who is the Convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), made the
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The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, said on Wednesday the state government paid N100, 000 each as compensation to farmers and herdsmen for damages recorded during conflicts in the state. Ikpeazu, who stated this when he featured in aq Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily, said the move was to ensure the people gain the
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Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Monday said videos making the round on social media purporting that members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were responsible for burning of houses belonging to herdsmen were not the handiwork of the separatist movement. According to Umahi, communities, rather IPOB were responsible for the acts.
Read moreThe Abia State Government has accused herders of being responsible for the various kidnapping activities in the state. The Commissioner for Information in the state, John Kalu, said this in a statement made available to journalists on Monday. He said that the Abia State Government condemned “without reservations, the activities of criminal herdsmen suspected to
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A grassroots politician in Oyo State, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, on Monday, stormed Ogun State in continuation of his efforts to send packing the Fulani herdsmen from the South-West. Igboho arrived in Abeokuta, the state capital, alongside his supporters on Monday afternoon and immediately proceeded to Yewa in Ogun West Senatorial district to launch
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The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has fired back at the co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Aisha Yesufu, after she condemned the Eastern Security Network (ESN) for chasing out herdsmen from Isiukwuato local government area of Abia State on Saturday. Kanu had posted on his Facebook page a video
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The Ondo State Government led by Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu on Monday said it had started registering herdsmen in the state with the aim of ejecting unregistered herders from the state’s forest reserves. The Special Adviser to state Governor on Security, Alhaji Jimoh Dojumo, disclosed this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Akure
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Rights activist Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Igboho, has vowed that the Yoruba people would not allow killer herdsmen chase them away from their land. In a viral video circulated on the internet on Sunday, Igboho said the eyes of his people are opened and that they would rather lose their lives than allow invaders
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A woman in the Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State, Morenike Salami, is currently battling for her life after some marauding herdsmen attacked her while visiting her building site and in the process, cut off one of her fingers and shattered her jaw. The attackers, said to be about eight in number, had
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The Ondo State government on Tuesday described the statement credited to the presidency on the directive given herdsmen to vacate the state’s forest reserves as a brazen display of emotional attachment. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, had in a statement titled: “In tackling crime, Ondo State Government
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