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14 farmers were arrested by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Gombe State on Tuesday for cultivating Cannabis. Mr Aliyu Adole the Commandant of the agency in the state told newsmen in Gombe that the farmers were arrested with 413.19 kilogrammes of Cannabis. He said nine of them were arrested with 322.6 kg […]
Mr Ibrahim Atakunya, community leader of Rije Community in Kuje Area Council, FCT, has called on herdsmen to avoid grazing on farmlands to avert clashes and food crisis in the area. Atakunya made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kuje on Saturday. He said it was against any […]
The Police Command in Enugu State says it has commenced investigation into the alleged poisoning of the food of a prominent man in a restaurant in Enugu, the state capital. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), for the command in the state, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this in a statement he signed in Enugu on […]
A 72-year-old grandmother, Victoria Akinseye, was in tears as she displayed the torn under wears she wore the day suspected herdsmen took turns to rape her on her farm in Ore, Odigbo council area of Ondo State. Victoria said the herdsmen had done the unthinkable and would reap the fruit of their wickedness to her. […]
The Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, has lampooned the Federal Government for failing to take decisive steps to end the escalating clashes between herdsmen and local farmers in parts of the country. Speaking yesterday when the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, hosted members of the NEF in Makurdi, Assistant Secretary of the forum, Alhaji Mustapha Wali, […]
There was noticeable tension in Calabar, Cross River State, as the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jubril, handed over 145 snakes and reptiles to the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for scientific research. The reptilees were on transit to Europe, seized by the Nigerian Customs Service, after they were smuggled into Nigeria from […]
Two persons, suspected to have smuggled 145 poisonous snakes and other tropical rainforest reptiles from Cameroon to Nigeria, have disappeared from the custody of the Nigerian Agricultural and Quarantine Agency in Calabar, the office they were handed over to by the Nigerian Customs Service along with their consignment. Mr. Ibrahim Jubril, the Minister of State […]
The Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Usman Jibril, yesterday in Calabar officially handed over three boxes containing 145 assorted snakes to authorities of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) in Akwa Ibom State. The presentation took place at the premises of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the presence of officials of […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Thursday in Abuja placed two officials of the Bank of Agriculture in National Assembly custody for failure of the bank’s Managing Director, Kabir Adamu, to appear before it. The staff that were detained are: Emmanuel Ameh, the Executive Director, Regional Banking, Bank of Agriculture and the […]
Herdsmen yesterday, invaded farmlands in Imo State and destroyed over 200 farms in Amakohia-Ubi Autonomous community, Owerri west Local Government Area of Imo state. The farmers are now counting losses following the invasion of their farmlands by herdsmen. President General of the community, Mr. Cyril Ndumanya confirmed this to Vanguard, yesterday, in Owerri. He said […]
Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN) has threatened to arrest and prosecute adulterators of fertiliser in the country. President of the association, Mr. Thomas Etuh, issued the threat in Kaduna at a stakeholders’ forum where over 60 registered fertiliser distributors were issued certificates under the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI) programme. He said the […]
Two tractor drivers were killed by Boko Haram insurgents in Jere Local Government Area of Borno, Alhaji Muhammad Dilli, the state Commissioner of Agriculture, said. Dilli told newsmen in Maiduguri that the insurgents attacked the tractor operators while working on a farm “in the past few days’’. He listed the slain tractor operators as Kashim […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has disclosed that it is planning to organise a livestock development conference later in the month to address challenges in the sector. FAO’s Country Representative to Nigeria, Suffyan Koroma, made the disclosure when he presented his letter of commission to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, in […]
Some farmers in Gombe State have accused the Bank of Agriculture, BOA, and the state Ministry of Agriculture of distorting the Nigerian government agriculture loan facility under the Anchor Borrowers Programme. The Secretary of the All Lower Farmers Association (ALFA), Sani Idris, expressed the grievances of the farmers when he addressed journalists in Gombe on […]
Desirous to curtail worrisome activities of herdsmen across the state, the Ondo State government yesterday said an anti-grazing law is in the works. Reports of killings, destruction of farmlands and rape abound across the state. Last week, a farmer, Orimisan Balogun, was hacked to death by rampaging herdsmen in Ore area of the state for […]