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Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state on Tuesday confirmed that Boko Haram insurgents had killed 31 fishermen at Baga in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. Shettima made the confirmation at the presentation of relief materials donated to the state by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to the Internally Displaced Persons […]
A Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced Ajayi Adetona, 45, to three months imprisonment for trespassing into a farm and stole maize. The convict, who lives at Kugbo, was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft, punishable under Sections 348 and 287 of the Penal Code. Adetona, however, […]
The Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) has raised alarm over the smuggling of expired rice into the country and fraudulently selling it to unsuspecting customers as locally produced rice at exorbitant prices. This was revealed in a statement jointly signed by the association’s Chairman and Secretary, Peter Dama and Saifuddeen Abdulrahman respectively. “We have […]
Governor Samuel Ortom has raised the alarm over alleged plot by suspected herdsmen in the West African sub-region to invade Benue State to prevent the implementation of the anti-open grazing law this came as the Ekiti State High Court has sentenced a herdsman, Ali Haruna, to two years imprisonment for destroying crops worth N1.5 million […]
♦ whistleblower number on the bag not connecting ♦ report to security agencies -FEPSAN The Federal Government’s Presidential Fertiliser Initiative designed to get fertilizer to smallholder farmers at the approved prices has been hijacked by middlemen, our investigation has shown. A bag of the NPK 20:10:10 brand is supposed to sell at the approved price […]
The Oyo State Police Command on Saturday said it has launched a manhunt for a Fulani herdsman that killed a farmer in Igbeti, Oke-Ogun area of the state. The farmer, Musiliu Aliu, was hacked to death on his farm by the herdsman during an argument over the latter’s cattle grazing on Aliu’s farmland. It was […]
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Komptu Idris have been called upon to intervene and bring to an end the menace of fake fertiliser sales and circulation in Yobe State by some unpatriotic citizens. Sparking to journalists in his office, the Yobe State chairman of Fertiliser Sales Association, Potiskum branch, Alhaji Ali Maitaki. According […]
Nasarawa state House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on Governor Umaru Tanko Almakura to arrest, prosecute and relieve any government official found culpable in diverting fertilizer meant for farmers in the state. Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, the speaker of the House made the call in Lafia after the chairman, House committee on Agriculture, […]
The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has intercepted a 40ft container of frozen Tilapia fish imported from Turkey and valued at N22.1 million. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Muhammad Jibrin, said this on Monday when he led newsmen to APM Terminals, Apapa, where the container was intercepted. Jibrin said that the container […]
The Federal Government says it will henceforth arrest, prosecute and fine illegal importers of frozen foods into the country through the land borders and seal cold rooms where it is sold. Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of state for Agriculture and Rural Development, announced this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday. Lokpobiri said […]
The Oyo State Government has stated that herdsman caught with guns would be treated as criminals and prosecuted accordingly. This was stated in a communiqué issued at the end of the Oyo State Inter-Religious/Ethnic Committee ,OYSIREC, held in Ibadan at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s office. The meeting was attended by religious, tribal, ethnic […]
The Yoruba Initiative (TYI), a socio-cultural and non-political group in the South-West, has decried the encroachment into farm land by suspected herdsmen in the region. Mr Folu Olamiti, the spokesman of TYI in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the increasing encroachment into farm land was already posing threat to the economy of the […]
The issue of Fulani herdsmen has raged in the polity for some time. The herdsmen are now the fourth deadliest group in the world, according to the United Nations. Following the menace of the herdsmen in different parts of the country, some state governments have made laws regulating the movement of cattle and cattlemen in […]
Farmers in the State of Osun have been advised to desist from illegal harbouring of Fulani/Bororo cattle rearers in their community so as to guide against farmland destruction commonly caused by cattle grazing on cultivated farmlands in the State of Osun The Committee Chairman on peaceful coexistence between Fulani/Bororo and Farmers in the State of…” […]
From the National Assembly comes a promise of legislative antidote to the deadly and perennial attacks by herdsmen on farming communities in the country. President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, broke the cheering news in Gboko Benue State, while delivering his remarks at the coronation ceremony of the new Tor Tiv, His Majesty, […]