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…raise alarm over influx of armed herders into Benue By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue state government has impounded 376 cows and six-armed herders in Kaseyo, Guma Local Government Area, LGA, for violating the state’s grazing law. Deputy Governor of the state, Mr Benson Abounu who made the disclosure in Makurdi also raised concerned about
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By Peter Duru The Middle Belt Movement for Justice and Peace, MBMJP, has warned that the plan by the Federal Government to rediscover grazing routes and reserves in states across the country is a recipe for crisis in the various communities since developments have overtaken the ancient map. The group urged the Gederal Government to
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When three years ago, in 2017 precisely, the Governor Samuel Ortom led State Executive Council presented an Executive Bill to the Benue State House of Assembly for deliberation and passage of the Benue State Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of 2017, no one envisaged that the coming of that piece of legislation would mark a turning point in the several years of armed herdsmen induced torments, brutality and killings in virtually all the rural communities of the state.
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By Peter Okutu Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, weekend stressed that nobody in the state and indeed the Southeast geopolitical zone was considering establishing Rural Grazing Area, RUGA, for herdsmen. According to Umahi, people were playing politics with the security of the state using RUGA to sell their dummy even as he warns against
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The Federal Government is set to partner Gombe State Government on the establishment of modern grazing reserves to harness the livestock potential in the state. Alhaji Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this when he paid a courtesy call on Gov. Inuwa Yahaya in Gombe. Nanono said that he was in
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THE planned introduction of Rural Grazing Area, RUGA, Settlements in the 36 states of the Federation by the Federal Government was suspended following the heated controversy it generated and its rejection in many quarters.
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ABUJA—The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Socio-Cultural Association, yesterday, dragged Benue State government before the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, seeking to upturn the Anti-Open Grazing Law currently in operation in the state.
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Dr Junaid Mohammed, a Second Republic federal lawmaker, was also a member of the 2014 National Conference convoked by the Goodluck Jonathan administration to find solutions to Nigeria’s nagging challenges. Known for speaking his mind on topical issues no matter whose ox is gored, Junaid, a medical doctor turned politician, in this interview, reviews the latest letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari.
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A man sets out with cattle and roams from Timbuktu to Calabar, on foot. And that is his life in 2019? He has no shelter. He has no education. He has no healthcare. He lives a wretched and perilous vagrant life. And we say he is entitled to live so dangerously in the name of freedom?
Read More A man sets out with cattle and roams from Timbuktu to Calabar, on foot. And that is his life in 2019? He has no shelter. He has no education. He has no healthcare. He lives a wretched and perilous vagrant life. And we say he is entitled to live so dangerously in the name of freedom?
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