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As herdsmen kill farmer, Tension is mounting in the sleepy community of Anaku in Ayamelum local government area of Anambra State, following the reported killing of a farmer in the area by herdsmen. Anambra State Deputy Governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke, who visited the community in company of the state Commissioner of Police and the state […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Audu Ogbeh, has expressed Federal Government’s readiness to prosecute people trespassing landed properties of Federal College of Agriculture, land grabbers Akure (FECA), Ondo State. Ogbeh, who stated this in Akure, during the diamond jubilee celebration of the college, identified land grabbing, destruction of farms and plantations as […]
Over 4,500 farmers in Kano state are to appear before a mobile court set up recover loans from defaulters under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. The farmers are part of the 5,000 who benefited from the loans which the Central Bank of Nigeria says less than 10 per cent of them had paid back. In a […]
The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested three herdsmen for attempted murder and unlawful possession of an AK-49 rifle. The suspects’ names were given as Mohammed Bello (40), Muhammed Momoh (30) and Yisau Umoru (18). PUNCH Metro gathered that they were arrested following information received by the police that one Ige Orisade was […]
An estimated 200 families have been displaced at Mbiabong Ito, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State as a result of the alleged invasion of the community by Fulani herdsmen. Information gathered from the area which is about 100 kilometres from Calabar indicated that Fulani herders in their scores invaded farmlands in the community, […]
An Abia State based journalist, Mr. Steve Oko, was in tears on Monday as he conducted his fellow journalists round his cassava farm destroyed by cattle apparently led into the farm by herdsmen yet to be identified. Oko, who is the state correspondent of the Authority newspaper, said that he was horrified and devastated when […]
The Oyo State chapter of Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has demanded the prosecution of all police officers involved in the brutalization of students and staff of Federal College of Agriculture, (FCA) and Institute for Agricultural Research and Training, (IAR&T), Moor Plantation, Ibadan, during Monday’s protest. The group, which made this demand in a statement signed […]
No fewer than two staff of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan were hospitalised on Monday after some overzealous men of the Oyo State Police Command clashed with students of the Federal College of Agriculture, Moore Plantation, Apata Ibadan. DAILY POST gathered that trouble started some minutes before 8 am on Monday […]
Following the enactment of the anti-grazing bill by Samuel Ortom-led Benue State Government, about 10 million cows owned by members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN )will have to be moved from Benue to the neighbouring Nasarrawa State, Awe Local Government. According to the Chairman of the association, the association was collaborating with […]
Less than a week after a businessman and a federal civil servant took their own lives in different parts of Kwara State, another person who was a farmer in Idera community in Ifelodun local government area of the state has reportedly killed himself. The farmer cum hunter reportedly, shot himself with his dane gun. A […]
The Speaker, Benue Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, says the Anti-Open Grazing Law, which comes into effect in the state on Nov. 1, will be fully implemented and enforced. Ikyange gave the assurance on Tuesday when members of the Strict Movement against Ravages in Tiv Land (SMART-Land) visited him in Makurdi. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Officials of both Bank of Agriculture and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are battling to explain to Adamawa State Government the disappearance of over N265.7m meant for Anchor Borrowers programme in the state. The apex bank and Bank of Agriculture, Yola branch; are being accused of diverting the money to commercial banks and fixing them […]
Benjamin Ogunbodede, a former director-general of the Institute of Agriculture Research and Training (IART) Ibadan, has been handed a 40-year jail sentence over an alleged N177 million fraud. Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, a judge of the federal high court in Ibadan, Oyo state, gave the ruling on Tuesday. The ex-DG was arraigned on a 17-count charge alongside […]
The Data Analyst and Farmer Satisfaction Representative, Amo Group of Companies, Mr. Alaba Yunusa, has said that 70 per cent of the chicken consumed in Nigeria is imported. He made the statement while guiding journalists round some facilities belonging to Amo Byng, Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Limited and natnudO Foods in Oyo State. Yunusa pointed […]
Douglas F. Schaefer, 68 and Peggy A. Schaefer, 61, of Stanton, Texas surrendered to authorities on third-degree felony warrants out of Bell County for Theft of Livestock. The charges are the result of an investigation conducted by Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Special Ranger Marvin Wills. In July, Wills was contacted by a […]