Women from Ihitte-uboma local government area of Imo State have protested the brutal killing of madam Uchechi Okafor by unidentified assassins last weekend. The women clad in black attires protested in Ihitte-uboma council area of the state and displayed placards with various inscriptions. Addressing the women, the state Commissioner for Special Projects, Simon Ebegbulem described […]
Dayo Johnson – Akure Scores of farmers including their wives were wounded when suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded and set four communities in lgbatoro/Ala/Imafon communities in Ondo North, Ondo state ablaze over disagreement on grazing and destruction of their farmlands. The state police commissioner Undia Adie had swiftly deployed detectives to the troubled communities to maintain
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Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, the Conservator-General, National Park Service, NPS, has said the conflicts with the service staff, herdsmen, loggers and farmers at the seven parks across the nation deserve Federal Government’s immediate attention. NAN reports that Goni made this known during a courtesy visit to the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Adamu at the Force […]
NPS raises alarm as herdsmen clash with farmers, loggers nationwide
Godsgift Onyedinefu Twelve thousand farmers affected by Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State have been enlisted in the federal government’s National Food Security Programme. The farmers are expected to benefit from the emergency agricultural programme, which is to be executed by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). This was disclosed in a statement signed by…
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Ten onion farmers were on Saturday shot dead by suspected armed bandits in Kursasa village of Kware district in Shinkafi local government area of Zamfara state. Kware district has suffered series of deadly attacks in the last six weeks by suspected armed bandits. Between February and March, at least 62 people were killed in two […]
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The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, has raised the alarm over plans by some politicians to employ mercenaries to carry out assassinations, infiltrate domestic staff of political opponents and use the social media for smear campaigns to disrupt the governorship and state House of Assembly elections on March 9.
Tim McDonnell for NPR Deadly conflicts between farmers and cattle herders in central Nigeria over land and natural resources reached a high point in 2018, according to a new report from Amnesty International. In 2018, more than 2,000 people were killed in such conflicts, the report found. That’s more than the previous two years combined, and…
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Boko Haram jihadists have killed at least 16 farmers and left dozens missing in the latest attacks in restive northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, militia and residents said on Wednesday. The civilian militia fighting the Islamists found 15 bodies in fields around Kazaa and Daraa villages, five kilometres (three miles) outside the garrison town of Monguno…
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The rice farm in Edo, 70 percent of which was affected by the flood, was partly financed through the FADAMA III additional financing project… Tony Osauzo, Benin Across the country, so many Nigerians have heeded the call of the Federal Government to be part its agricultural revolution and contribute their quota to efforts to boost the…
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The Special Representative of UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, says the conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria are becoming more sophisticated and deadlier. Chambas, who is Head, UN Office for West African and the Sahel (UNOWAS), in a report presented to the UN Security Council, said the violence […]
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