herdsmen killings

Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has charged the Federal Government to stop the continuous killings by herdsmen across the country particularly in the Middle Belt, oF mostly Christians if “it does not have a hand in it.” Bishop Simeon Okah The body also drummed … Read more via...

In 2002 when he first went public with his House of Nigeria F.R.E.S.H., which eventually metamorphosed into Fresh Democratic Party, Chris Okotie, pastor, Household of God Church International Ministries, told the story of a certain man in an unnamed town who went to bed at night and while he...

The Nigeria Police has reacted to report that President Muhammadu Buhari queried the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris for allegedly not obeying his order. The police said claims by Presidency officials that Buhari had queried Idris as a result of the matter was false. The …...

•Famine looms: All the food, all the yam and cassava and the rest of them have been destroyed and given to cows BY PETER DURU, MAKURDI Chief Edward Ujege, the President General of Mdzough U Tiv, is also the Chairman of tribal leaders in Benue State. In this … Read more via Vanguard News –...

The Benue State Special Assistant on Herdsmen Matters, Alhaji Shehu Tambaya, has said sponsors of killings in parts of the state would soon be exposed. Tambaya in an interview with our correspondent in Makurdi on Friday said it was inhuman for some people with blood running through their veins …...

Warns against stray animals, unauthorized movement of animals By Olasunkanmi Akoni Amid wide condemnation against proposed grazing zone for herdsmen across the federation, the Lagos State Government, yesterday, said that the ban placed on unauthorised movement of animals especially live cattle...

Residents of 16 out of 23 LGs now displaced, says Ortom Rose Ejembi, Makurdi General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has visited Benue State where he prayed that God should bring an end to the continuous bloodshed occasioned by incessant … Read...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered state governors to ensure that people of their states do not “block cattle routes”. Speaking during a programme on Ekiti State Television, EKTV, Fayose claimed that Buhari gave the directive during a meeting...

Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, representing Abia North District, has lamented the destructive activities of herdsmen, alleging that with the way the security threat is being treated, the APC Federal Government seems to value the life of animals more than that of human beings. Ohuabunwa spoke while …...

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has said that 19 Northern governors have what it takes to to stop herdsmen killings. The governor said his other colleagues with unity and understanding had the capacity to surmount the herders/farmers’ clashes which had caused the deaths of several people...

Nigerian army troop arrested two herdsmen in Benue state – The herdsmen were arrested while allegedly planning to destroy Governor Ortom’s fish farm The Nigerian army troops, 707 Special Forces Brigade, on Tuesday, February 6, arrested two armed … --Read more via Nigeria News today &...

Herdsmen attack, sack Gov Ortom’s farmhouse BY PETER DURU MAKURDI—Suspected herdsmen, yesterday, attacked Waku village and a part of Gbajimba town, all in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, killing two persons, and destroying Governor Samuel Ortom’s farm house in fresh attacks in the...

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take firm action to stop to the killings by armed herdsmen. The party stated this on Sunday night in a communique at the end of its National Working Committee, NEC, … Read more via...

Gov insists killings preceded anti-open grazing law Herdsmen-farmers’ clash claims lives in Adamawa Abimbola Akosile in Lagos, George Okoh in Makurdi, Daji Sani in Yola Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State saturday condemned the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, for blaming the...

THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Saturday said the leaders of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, were attempting to justify the ungodly killings by herdsmen across the country because they were allegedly complicit in the crime. JNI MEETING: From right: Sultan of Sokoto and...

Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has criticised the Minister of defence, Mansur Dan-Ali for justifying Fulani herdsmen killings in some parts of the country. The minister of defence after a meeting with Buhari on Thursday blamed the implementation of anti-open grazing...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assured Nigerians that the rising attacks on communities by herdsmen will soon be brought under control by security forces deployed to the vulnerable areas across the country. The National Economic Council (NEC) had last week set up a committee to be headed...

The Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, on Thursday, rejected proposed establishment of cattle colony in any party of Yoruba land. The elders met in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital where they deliberated on pressing national issues. The group also called out some northern governors for gathering to...

Barely two weeks after threatening to raise an army against the killer herdsmen in Benue State, elder statesman and Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Dr Paul Unongo has stepped down. He resigned yesterday at an emergency meeting of the Forum in Abuja. Unongo, who succeeded the …...

Mr. Ayodele Fayose has embarked on a task of dousing tension, following the reported killing of a herdsman, known as Babuga Dengi, on Monday in Oke Ako in Ikole Local Government Area of the state. Amid concerns about a reprisal attack, Governor Fayose, summoned a meeting on Tuesday to … via...