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Ekiti Court Remands 2 Herdsmen For Destroying Crops

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, ordered the remand of one Momodu Rebo, 19, and Isiaka Idris, 22, in prison custody over alleged destruction of farm crops. 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. He said police recovered…

Buhari Orders Clampdown On Rampaging Herdsmen

President Muhammadu Buhari says he has directed security agencies across the country to henceforth deal decisively with any herdsmen that attack innocent Nigerians. Buhari made this known when he received the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday. He said his administration is prepared to deal decisively and…

Farmers/Herdsmen Conflicts Threaten Nigeria—FG

fulani The Federal Government has stressed that the recently clashes between herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the country could affect Nigeria’s unity. Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, who spoke the opening session of the Strategic Stakeholders Meeting on the Pastoralists/Sedentary Farmers Conflict in Nigeria held in Abuja recently, noted that a complex approach…