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Nigeria: Give us justice, else no 2019 campaign, Ortom warns FG

19Feb

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Nigeria: Give us justice, else no 2019 campaign, Ortom warns FG

The governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, has again called on the federal government to act fast in its bid to find lasting solution over herdsmen attack in the country, especially Benue. The governor equally threatened the federal government with the forthcoming 2019 election, noting that he has already stopped anything that has to do with politics till federal government stops herdsmen from killing his people. In an exclusive interview with ‘The Osasu Show’, the governor expressed dissatisfaction over federal government’s approach in treating the case. In his words, “It is as if the federal government has taken sides with Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association. Both the IG of police and defence ministers statements are testaments to what I am saying. “Though I don’t know t...

Nigeria: Southerners are Biased, Plotting to Split North – Prof Ango Abdullahi

18Feb

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Nigeria: Southerners are Biased, Plotting to Split North – Prof Ango Abdullahi

…Says cattle rearers are fighting back over injustice …Asks: What makes the kidnapping of Olu Falae so special? …‘Those who live in Lagos don’t know what is happening in Nigeria Professor Ango Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, is the spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF). Abdullahi, in this interview, bares his mind on the controversy dogging the creation of state police and herdsmen, describing the claims linking herdsmen to killings in the Middle Belt as a political agenda to split the ‘monolithic North’. He deplores what he points out as injustice meted to herdsmen, accusing the southern part of Nigeria of bias against them. A national security meeting has reportedly accepted the creation of state policing as the way out of the insecur...

Nigeria: Underage Voters are Registered Because Registration Officers’ Lives are Threatened – INEC

15Feb

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Nigeria: Underage Voters are Registered Because Registration Officers’ Lives are Threatened – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission says some underage voters are being registered in some parts of the country because the lives of registration officers are being threatened by some members of the community. The Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said this on Wednesday during a programme on the African Independent Television titled, ‘Kakaaki.’ Osazze-Uzzi, while answering questions over pictures and videos on the social media showing children registering and voting in northern Nigeria, said when officials refused to register underage persons, their lives were threatened by members of the community and they eventually caved in. The INEC director said, “I agree that it is the responsibility of the registration officer to do that (refuse to...

Nigeria: Soldiers Kill Vigilante, Release Arrested Herdsmen in Edo

15Feb

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Nigeria: Soldiers Kill Vigilante, Release Arrested Herdsmen in Edo

Tragedy struck in Obadolovbiyeyi community in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State when a vigilante, Efe Igbnovia, was shot dead by some soldiers. It was gathered that a local vigilance group had in the early hours of Wednesday arrested some suspected herdsmen for alleged armed robbery on the Benin-Abraka Expressway. Igbinovia was said to have been asked to watch over the suspects while his colleagues conducted a search for the fleeing members of the gang. It was learnt that a group of soldiers stormed the area and fired continuously. PUNCH Metro learnt that the military men, who were said to have arrived in the community in a Honda with the number plate, AP 641 KTN, shot Igbinovia dead and freed the suspects. Some angry youths reportedly blocked the path of a ...

Nigeria: No Cattle Colony in Ebonyi, Governor Umahi Insists

12Feb

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Nigeria: No Cattle Colony in Ebonyi, Governor Umahi Insists

David Umahi of Ebonyi State, weekend insisted that no part of the state would be given for establishment of cattle colony. This came as Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, warned South East Governors against providing any land for the proposed Cattle Colony in any state of South East, saying it would amount to putting Ndigbo under herdsmen siege. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Emmanuel Uzor, the Governor initiated measures to maintain peace between farmers and herdsmen across the state by engaging traditional rulers and leaders of Miyetti Allah in the area for the purposes of sustaining peace among the two groups. Uzor said the governor while addressing traditional rulers, presidents of town union and other stakeholders at the Akanu Ibiam International Conference Centr...

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

12Feb

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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: 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. ...

Nigeria: Herdsmen Behead Farmer In Iseyin

12Feb

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Nigeria: Herdsmen Behead Farmer In Iseyin

Agbekoyas would declare war on herdsmen if… An elderly farmer was on Saturday beheaded by herdsmen in his farm at Iseyin, Oyo State. His son, who was with him in the farm, was also said to have been injured by the herdsmen who also destroyed crops in the farm. President-General of Agbekoyas Worldwide, Kamoru Okiki Aremu, who disclosed this to Vanguard Sunday night, said the deceased, identified as Mustapha, alias Bebe Jeje, was a gentle man who was very popular at Iseyin. He said unless the federal government and Governor Abiola Ajimobi immediately arrest and prosecute the culprits, the Agbekoyas would declare war on herdsmen all over Oyo State. ”We are grieving. These herdsmen went to Baba Jeje’s farm, beheaded him and also injured his son who was with him. ”We have had ...

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...

World: Is America Any Safer 15 Years After September 9/11?

8Sep

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World: Is America Any Safer 15 Years After September 9/11?

Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which was a far-off military base. This massacre hit the center of our government and blasted away part of our most iconic skyline. It left a stench that New Yorkers could smell weeks later as remains continued to be recovered from the ashes. Suddenly, we were vulnerable. Not just to disease, tornadoes, accidents, or criminals, but to the kinds of enemies that had always threatened others but never us. Barack Obama remembers that after the second plane hit, he left the Chicago building that housed his state-Senate office. “I stood in the street and looke...