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Nigeria: It’s Wrong to Call Fulanis Killers — Okorocha

12Feb

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Fulani Herdsmen, Justice, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Nigeria: It’s Wrong to Call Fulanis Killers — Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha, said, yesterday that it would be wrong for anybody to link the Fulanis to the killings by herdsmen in the country. Okorocha defended the Fulanis, when members of Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim led by its Supreme Head, the Prelate His Eminence Solomon Alao, visited him at the Government House, Owerri, as stated in a release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo. On whether the Imo State Government has created a cattle colony, proposed by the Federal Government, Okorocha, said there was a cattle market in the state and not a cattle colony, stating that the state government encouraged indigenes to go into cattle business because it was lucrative and that government would continue to support them with provision of ranches. The governor also ...

Nigeria: Senator Shehu Sani’s Constituents Vow to Recall Him

12Feb

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Senator Shehu Sani’s Constituents Vow to Recall Him

Constituents of Senator Shehu Sani have vowed to start a recall process against him for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress Party as well as deviating from the mandate that was given to him. Addressing a press conference in Kaduna Monday, the group under the aegis of Concerned Indigenes of Kaduna Central Senatorial District said since his election into the National Assembly, Senator Sani has not achieved any tangible result except engaging on social media war. Leader of the group, Aliyu Saidu, who also claimed to be Senator Sani’s Deputy Campaign Director in the 2015 election, lambasted the senator for deviating from what the party and his constituency sent him to do at the national assembly. Said said rather than investing his legislative resou...

Nigeria: Herdsmen Kill Father of Two in Ekiti

12Feb

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Nigeria: Herdsmen Kill Father of Two in Ekiti

There was palpable tension in Ipao-Ekiti, Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Sunday, as suspected herdsmen identified as Bororos allegedly killed a father of two, Olayemi Tunde, 32. Olayemi was reportedly killed yesterday afternoon while returning from his farm. Vanguard gathered that Olayemi, a commercial motorbike driver who also has a farm in the farm settlement in the Community had gone to his farm to harvest some cassava when he met his death. Narrating how the incident happened, Chairman of Ikole Local Government Area, Mrs. Abiola Ajayi, who briefed newsmen on the tragic development in a telephone conversation, said: ‘’The deceased was an Okada man who has a farm in the settlement. He had gone to his farm to harvest some cassava . He was with one other person. ...

Biafran suit in America: US rejects Nigeria’s Defence of Immunity

9Feb

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Biafra, Justice, Nigeria

Biafran suit in America: US rejects Nigeria’s Defence of Immunity

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has asked a United States federal court to commence the trial of 16 Nigerian officials it sued over their alleged direct or indirect complicity in the extrajudicial killings of its members, who launched peaceful protests following the arrest and detention of its Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. This was contained in a statement issued by the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful and made available to Vanguard in Enugu, yesterday. The defendants include the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Alhaji Lawal Musa Daura, the former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, and his successor, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris as well as the Governors of Abia State, Dr O...

Nigeria: Herdsmen to Pay for Grazing Reserves, Says Osinbajo

9Feb

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Nigeria: Herdsmen to Pay for Grazing Reserves, Says Osinbajo

…state, community police will end killings – VP Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday stated that the Federal Government lacked the powers to seize land from states for the establishment of grazing reserves or livestock production centres. Osinbajo also announced that herdsmen would pay for the services to be rendered by the proposed ranches or grazing reserves by the government. He stated these at the opening ceremony of a two-day summit on national security organised by the Senate in Abuja. Also in attendance are the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.); the service chiefs and senators. Osinbajo said, “Let me reiterate that on no account will any land be seized or forcefully taken...

Nigeria: I’ll Review Appointments to Address Marginalisation – Buhari

8Feb

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Nigeria, Religion

Nigeria: I’ll Review Appointments to Address Marginalisation – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari told Catholic bishops in Abuja today that he would take a second look at appointments made by the Federal Government to redress issues being raised. He said the review will be done after a compendium of all appointments has been submitted to him. He told the bishops, under the aegis of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, that no ethnic group or political zone has been deliberately marginalised in the appointments made so far by his administration. The Nigerian leader was obviously reacting to criticisms that he may have violated the Federal character principle in some of the appointments made. The last time a compendium of appointments was done, the South West region led the rest of the country. President Buhari also explained that the policy prop...

Nigeria: 2019 – South-South APC Leaders Adopt Buhari

8Feb

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Nigeria: 2019 – South-South APC Leaders Adopt Buhari

Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, South-South All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders and stakeholders, yesterday, converged in Abuja and unanimously adopted President Muhammadu Buhari as the choice of the zone for second term tenure. To actualize this, the leaders of the party from the geo-political zone which comprises Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers states, have inaugurated a South- South Presidential Campaign Committee with Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State as chairman, while other elected senators, members of the House of Representatives, states Houses of Assembly, among others, will serve as members. The meeting which lasted for over three hours, started Tuesday night and ended in the early hours of yesterday, was held at the Abuja residence of ...

Nigeria: Buhari’s Scandalous Recall of NHIS Boss

8Feb

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Corruption, Nigeria

Nigeria: Buhari’s Scandalous Recall of NHIS Boss

IN a baffling move, President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrated clannishness and lack of respect for procedure once more by reinstating the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf. Yusuf was suspended in July 2017 following serious allegations of corruption reported to the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, and is being investigated by both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. The premature recall sits uneasily with Buhari’s commitment to openness and transparency. Yusuf, who was appointed in 2016, allegedly cornered N919 million, being part of the contributions of the subscribers to the scheme. He claimed that some of the amount was expended on the training of the NHIS staf...

Nigeria: Herdsmen Enjoying Support of Highly Placed Nigerians – Benue State Govt.

6Feb

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Nigeria: Herdsmen Enjoying Support of Highly Placed Nigerians – Benue State Govt.

Piqued by statements credited to top government functionaries over the Benue killings, the state government has insisted that the rampaging killer herdsmen attacking various communities in the state are enjoying the backing and support of highly-placed Nigerians. Addressing reporters yesterday in Makurdi, over the call by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, for a repeal of Benue State’s anti-open grazing law which the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, had claimed was responsible for the killings, Benue State Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Lawrence Onoja, Jnr alleged that such remarks were clear indications that highly-placed Nigerians were fueling the killings. Onoja, who recounted the over 46 times Benue communities came under the attack of suspected her...

Nigeria: Nigeria: Herdsmen Attack, Sack Gov. Ortom’s Farmhouse

6Feb

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Nigeria: Nigeria: Herdsmen Attack, Sack Gov. Ortom’s Farmhouse

Suspected herdsmen, yesterday, attacked Waku village and a part of Gbajimba town, all in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, killing two persons, and destroying Governor Samuel Ortom’s farm house in fresh attacks in the area. The latest attack came less than 24 hours after Yogbo, another community in the same local government area, also came under heavy attack by suspected herdsmen which left six persons dead and several property and farmlands destroyed. However, the attack on Yogbo was repelled by the Police, who chased the invaders out of the community. Confirming the latest attack at the State Police Command Headquarters, the Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni and Chairman of Guma Local Government Area, Mr. Anthony Shawon, said the herdsmen, who were backed by militant g...