Tag: Farmers
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Farmers/herdsmen clashes: Osinbajo, nine governors form committee to tackle menace
As part of deliberate attempts to end the farmers/herdsmen incessant clashes that have cost several lose of lives and properties across the country, Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and nine state governors have constituted a committee with the mandate to end the killings. The Vice President is chairman of the committee. This was one of…
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2019: Politicians using herdsmen/farmers’ clashes for selfish gains – Miyetti Allah
The National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural Association, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Badejo on Wednesday in Kano said politicians are using the incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers across the country for their selfish gains ahead of the 2019 elections. Badejo, who spoke to reporters in Kano, said the worrisome trend, over…
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Herdsmen/farmers clashes: Learn to accommodate your countrymen, Buhari begs Benue leaders
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and other leaders not to embark on reprisal attacks due to the recent killings allegedly perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen in the state. The President said this on Monday when he received a delegation of political leaders, traditional rulers and elders of the state…
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Buhari has clear plans to end herders/farmers clashes – El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, said on Monday that the federal government has very clear plans to end herders/farmers clashes in the country. The governor told newsmen after laying wreath to mark the Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Kaduna that the issue is being tackled head-on. “We met with the Minister of Interior, there…
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Herdsmen/farmers clashes: Why we are proposing cattle colonies – FG
The Federal Government has explained the reason for its planned establishment of cattle colonies, saying it is a measure to quickly curb the incessant bloody clashes between farmers and herdsmen. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this when Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau visited him in Abuja. Mr Tolu Makinde,…
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Police arrest officer for ‘killing seven farmers in Adamawa’
The Adamawa Police Command on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a policeman who was alleged to have shot to death seven farmers in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the arrest followed a petition by a Civil Society Organization, Progressive Mind for Development Initiate. The petition signed by the president of…
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Abdulsalami Abubakar moans Nigeria losing $13.7bn to herdsmen, farmers clashes yearly
A former military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, says Nigeria loses $13.7 billion annually as a result of farmers-herdsmen conflicts in Benue, Kaduna, Nasarawa and Plateau states. Mr. Abubakar made the disclosure at a forum organised by Search for Common Ground, Nigeria, in collaboration with Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development. The forum,…
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Buhari approves no-interest loans to 23,400 traders, farmers, others
In order to ease the mode of doing business and make life more easy for the people, the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration has approved the disbursement of a ‘no-interest loan’ to 23,400 beneficiaries in 13 states including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. This was made in a statement, signed and issued by spokesperson to…
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Oyo Govt empowers 717 rice, cassava farmers
The Oyo State Government has said that it would empower 450 cassava producers in the state through the state’s funded Anchor Borrower’s programme and another set of 267 farmers in the production of rice and cassava under the FADAMA III additional financing project. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, Barrister Oyewole…
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Rice will remain expensive for the foreseeable future – Yemi Osinbajo
The deputy president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that rice, the staple food of most Nigerians will remain expensive for the foreseeable future. Osinbajo made this revelation when a Nigerian citizen challenged him on the soaring price of the staple food in the country while he was on an unscheduled…