Tag Archives: Fulani

TENSION, yesterday, enveloped Agbor-Nta, Ika South Local Government Area, Delta State, following the arrest of a suspected Fulani herdsman by members of the community vigilante group in the forest. The suspect whose name was given as Abu Alli, was said to be lurking in the community’s forest where he was …

Don’t asphyxiate us, let us breathe. Remove your knees from the neck of Nigeria, and let the country be. What do we owe you, that you make it seem we must never have peace? That was the sum total of the caution given early this week by the Department of …

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has cited some officers and men’s insufficient commitment as factors affecting the success of the counter-insurgency operations in the country. Buratai who spoke on Tuesday at the opening of a five-day leadership workshop for mid-level officers and soldiers in Abuja, said …

  The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday lamented that the country had been witnessing what it called escalated despondency, depression and misery since the conclusion of the last presidential election. The party urged Nigerians to support one another at this trying time, in order to check the rising social degeneration, …

The National Council of Women Societies has lent its voice to the call by the Army High Command for parents in Borno State to stop donating their daughters to Boko Haram for suicide missions. A statement signed by Hajiya Binta Ibrahim, the council’s Public Relations Officer, described the act as …

Fulani herdsmen has been accused of  attacking a man at his farm in Kaduna. A facebook post by a man who witnessed the crime has gone viral with a lot of persons calling onthe government to do something about it. The facebook post: ‘This blood sucking demons are at it …

Edo residents, under the Amalgamation of Concerned Edo Professionals, Students and Civil Society, have staged a protest against the proposal by the state House of Assembly to establish a nomadic cattle grazing law. The protesters, who carried placards and chanted, “Kill this bill,” as they marched through the streets of …

  The authorities of Ohovbe Primary School Ikpoba, in Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, watch helplessly as cows invaded their school, disrupted classes and generally sacked pupils and teachers. See the photos:

Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the Disturbance of Peace at Sabo Area, Ile-Ife, set up by Governor Rauf Aregbesola has commenced sitting and received 104 memoranda from victims. Mr Bisi Babalola, the Secretary to the panel, made this known while briefing newsmen at Oba Okunade Sijuwade Memorial Hall, Enuwa, …

No fewer than three persons lost their lives in a clash between Hausa and Fulani traders in Abbatoir, Agege area of Lagos, yesterday, while several others were injured. However, Lagos State Police Command said only one person died. Property were also destroyed in the clash that disrupted business activities at …