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[ad_1] Benue State Government has arrested about 406 Fulani herdsmen and impounded 6,842 cattle since December 2018. Disclosing this to newsmen in Makurdi at the weekend, the Commander of the State Livestock Guard, Mr Linus Zaki said that the arrested herdsmen were handed over to police authority for onward prosecution in the court of law. […]
[ad_1] 24-year old Daniel James, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State and a resident of Akure cheated death after he was attacked with a machete severally on the head by some suspected Fulani herdsmen along Imafo axis of Akure, the capital city of Ondo State on Thursday. Daniel, who survives on the daily returns […]
[ad_1] THERE were mixed reactions, last week, over the transfer of 62 southern police officers from the ranks of Superintendent of Police, SP, to Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, and including 15 Divisional Police Officers, DPOs, from Delta State Police Command to the northern part of the country. Some affected officers suggested the exercise was […]
[ad_1] The imbroglio between the Oyo State government and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over the 1,800 bags of rice continued on Wednesday with the Oyo/Osun command closing its gate and refusing the state government access into its Ibadan premises to return the bags of rice. Keeping to its word to return the rice deemed […]
[ad_1] ASABA-YOUTHS at Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, rose against suspected herdsmen, who stormed the Admiralty Neighbourhood Estate in the town to kidnap a victim, Monday, and chased them away. Vanguard learned that some concerned residents of the estate were at Police Headquarters, Asaba, to lodge a complaint about the frequent abductions […]
[ad_1] Nine days after a Celestial Church Pastor was killed at Ibusa, near Asaba, an Anglican Priest, Revd. Anthony Oyi was yesterday kidnapped with his wife, his children and one of his friends by suspected herdsmen at Issele-Mkpitime, Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State. The Priest who resides at Oko-Ogbele and a native of […]
[ad_1] The Police Command in Edo on Saturday recovered the bodies of two kidnapped victims allegedly killed by their abductors. According to the command, the deceased were kidnapped by suspected Fulani herders on Jan 1 and killed on Jan 7. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, told newsmen during […]
[ad_1] NOTWITHSTANDING the security seal in Delta State, where Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, introduced a dusk-to-dawn curfew, Tuesday, to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, some suspected armed herdsmen have flagrantly undermined the security measures and unleashed a reign of terror on residents at Ibusa and Okpanam communities in Oshimili North Local Government Area of the oil-rich state. […]
[ad_1] Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state directed the 23 Local Government Council Chairman of the state to commence the recruitment of new members the state Livestock Guards to shore up the enforcement of the state’s open grazing prohibition law. The directive followed the recent surge in activities of armed herdsmen in the state that […]
[ad_1] The President-General of the apex Igbo cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has lamented the alleged indifference of the Federal Government to the plight of the orgy of violence being unleashed on the people of Plateau State by suspected Fulani herdsmen. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity […]
[ad_1] Not less than six persons have been reportedly killed in some parts of Edo state by suspected armed herdsmen and cult related fight over supremacy. Two farmers in Odighi, Ovia North East local government area were allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen on their ways to their farms. An eyewitness, Hilary Omoregie, disclosed yesterday that […]
[ad_1] Makurdi—A 25-year-old farmer, John Chinter, was reportedly killed by suspected armed herdsmen that invaded Tse Igba community in Mbabai council ward of Benue state, yesterday morning. It was gathered that the deceased before his untimely death was a member of IFAD-VCDP supported farmers’ cooperative society in the community. A member of the cooperative, who […]
[ad_1] The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa Command, has seized smuggled rice and beans worth over N12.7 million in Kano State. Mr Isa Danbaba, the Pubic Relations Officer of the command, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday in Kano. “In spite of the outbreak of Coronavirus and the subsequent measures put in place […]
[ad_1] Residents of Odighi, a town in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State are presently living in fear following the alleged beheading of two people by suspected herdsmen on their way from the farm. The residents of the agrarian community expressed sadness over the incessant attacks on members of the community in […]
[ad_1] A frontline aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu ahead 2020 governorship election yesterday condemned the level of insecurity in the state and streak of attacks on farmers in rural communities across the state which led to the killing of two farmers in Odighi, Ovia North-East local government area […]