Agriculture

Some traditional rulers in the South-West have been accused of inviting herdsmen from foreign countries to settle in their domains. They allegedly harboured herdsmen from West African countries in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State and other parts of Yorubaland. A former Director, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Col. Kunle …

The Northern Elders Forum and the Coalition of the Northern Groups have asked Fulani herdsmen to leave the southern part of Nigeria and return to the North. They said the herdsmen should return to the North where their (herdsmen) safety and that of their property could be guaranteed. The northern …

The South-East Governors Forum has said movement of cattle into the geopolitical zone through the bush paths by foot will no longer be allowed. A statement by the Director General, South-East Governors Forum, Prof. Simon Ortuanya, said that was an agreement reached with herdsmen living in the zone, adding that …

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, have called on Nigerians to defend the sanctity of their ancestral land. They urged the people to recognise that the internal colonisation project is ever recurrent, as there are backward, primitive, undeveloped minds that have failed …

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has said there is a surreptitious plan by the Federal Government to repeal the Land Use Act and take over the control of lands in the country from state governors. This, it said, was to enable the government to subsequently implement the suspended …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, while dismissing the suit filed by the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore challenging the 2017 Open Grazing Prohibition and Establishment Law passed by the Benue State House of Assembly, awarded a cost of N100,000 against the plaintiff to be paid to all the defendants …

Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka joined the raging cattle settlements dispute, describing the policy as a keg of gunpowder. The planned Ruga (settlements) is the Federal Government’s antidote to the bloody herders/farmers clashes, which have taken many lives, setting Nigeria on edge. Even before its execution, the policy has sparked …

The Ijaw Youth Council has described the proposed Ruga settlements for herdsmen in some parts of the country as a recipe for crises, insisting that the Ijaw people will resist such a plan. IYC President, Eric Omare, said it was wrong for one ethnic group to impose its wish on …

As reactions continue to trail the federal government’s proposal for establishment of Ruga settlements in some states, the South East Governors Forum has disclosed its proposed deal with the members of the Miyetti Allah as panecea to achieving lasting peace among farmers and herdsmen. Chairman of the South East Governors …

On 6th February 2014 the leader of IPOB and the lion of the East, my friend and brother Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said the following, “As they campaign vigorously for elections, you would think, they are coming to grow the economy, enthrone justice, breed unity and tolerance, love for one another. …