Tag: Communal Crisis
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2 injured, many missing as Ebonyi, Abia communities resume land dispute
Two persons were reportedly wounded and many allegedly missing in a renewed clash between Amata, Ishiagu community in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi and Lokpanta community in Abia state over ownership of farmland. The two communities which have been locked in an inter-communal conflict over ownership of a vast arable farmland near their borders…
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Edo CP wades into Ehor communal crisis, vows to unravel root cause
Mr Lawan Jimeta, the Commissioner of Police in Edo, has waded into the violent crisis that hit Ehor community in Uhumwode Local Government at the weekend, vowing to dig into the roots of the incident. Jimeta, who visited the scene of the violence on Sunday, decried the level of destruction to lives and property, and…
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Killings, communal crisis persistent in North because govt failed to implement our recommendations – Sultan
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar Sa’ad III, has attributed incessant killings and other crisis particularly in the Northeast, to government’s failure at both the local, state and federal levels to implement several recommendations of the traditional rulers. The monarch, who spoke on Monday in Kaduna State, at a meeting of the Northern Traditional…
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Fresh communal crisis: Osinbajo orders security reinforcement in Taraba
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday ordered police reinforcement, deployment of extra military battalion and personnel of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to the troubled areas of Taraba. Osinbajo gave the order in Abuja while commiserating with victims of the recent violent attacks in a number of communities in the state where…