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[ad_1] Six persons, including four armed herdsmen and two farmers, were confirmed dead in a bloody attack on Agasha community in Guma Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state by suspected armed herdsmen. Vanguard gathered that the herders had late Monday night stormed the community, shooting sporadically and scaring the people out of their beds. […]

[ad_1] Troops of Operations Whirl Stroke of the Nigerian Army in the early hours of Tuesday killed four suspected herdsmen who invaded the Agasha community in Guma local government area of Benue State. Tribune Online learnt that the suspected herdsmen had early in the morning of Tuesday killed two people and shot an elderly woman […]

[ad_1] While climate change contributes to the upsurge in disease outbreaks across the world, the current rate of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss will worsen future pandemics like the coronavirus, scientists have said. Even though climate change did not cause the emergence of COVID-19 they said it could indirectly make the effects of a current […]

[ad_1] The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has asked herdsmen who sneaked into Bomadi Council Area, Delta State, to leave the area in peace, saying riverine communities did not want their trouble. Chairman of CAN, Bomadi chapter, Snr Apostle Sunday Ekeremor, stated this when CAN Local Monitoring Team on compliance of partial lifting of church […]

[ad_1] Suspected Herdsmen from stretches of Gongoshi and Babagarsa in Taraba State attacked two villages and killed two people. The villages are Gon and Bolki in Numan Local government areas of Adamawa State. A contact from Nzumosu who identified himself as Clement Adams, one of the Youth leader and a member of vigilante told the […]

[ad_1] FORMER General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG and elder statesman, Chief Frank Kokori, has lamented the continued attacks by suspected armed herdsmen in parts of Delta State, saying that the state was fast becoming an epicentre of herdsmen in the South-South region of the country. Kokori who is […]

[ad_1] For the second time this century, the interdependence of the global food supply is in sharp focus. In the first instance, the economic crisis of 2008 created high food prices and pushed an additional 100 million people toward hunger. For many, though, that crisis neither began nor ended in 2008. Now, amid the COVID-19 […]

[ad_1] Former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, and elder statesman, Chief Frank Kokori, has lamented the continued attacks by suspected armed herdsmen in parts of Delta State stating that the state is fast becoming an epicenter of herdsmen in the South-South region of the country. Chief Kokori who […]

[ad_1] HUNDREDS of residents of Okpanam community, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, have escaped from the community, following the worsening  insecurity, which culminated in the killing of the chairman and Secretary of the town’s Vigilante Group, Emeka Nwaedozie and Festus Monye, last Thursday, by suspected herdsmen. The deceased persons and another person battling for […]

[ad_1] Five persons including two women have been reportedly killed in three separate attacks on communities in Gwer West and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue state by suspected armed herdsmen. This came as the Paramount ruler of Tyochin kingdom and Chairman of Gwer West Traditional Council, Chief Daniel Abomste raised the alarm that herdsmen […]

[ad_1] Alhaji Umaru Sanda, the Gangwari Ganye of Ganye Chiefdom, Adamawa State, has urged the Federal and Adamawa  Governments to provide subsidy for Cocoa, Coffee, Kolanuts and other agricultural produce farmers in his domain. The first class traditional ruler made the call at  a news conference to mark his 20th anniversary on the throne, held […]