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MIDDLE Belt Forum, MBF, yesterday, accused the Federal Government of conspiracy to impeach Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to enable it implement the avowed agenda of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, with a view to repealing the anti-open-grazing law in operation in the state.
Read More At last, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, Monday, declared that he has left the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and was considering pitching tent with another political party in due time to run for a second term in office.
Read More THE Indigenous People of Biafra yesterday faulted South East Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria for disagreeing with the region’s governors over ban on cattle movement in the region, saying the arrogant tone of the statement implied threat against the Igbo.
Read More AN interest group, Voice from the East, has urged all the South East governors, like Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Delta and Rivers to emulate Abia State government in banning open grazing.
Read More As an interim measure to forestall further killings and destruction of property, Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has placed a 90- day total an on grazing in Odighi, Odiguetue communities and environs.
Read More The Provost, Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Vom, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Professor Garba Sharubutu, has stressed the need to regulate grazing as a panacea to the recurring herders/farmers clashes in the country.
Read More A Pan-Igbo group, Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), has demanded immediate enactment of Anti-Open Grazing bills to check wanton killings and destruction of farmlands and properties in five South East and two South South States.
Read More Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, has decried the destruction of the university’s multi-million naira research and training farms by cattle illegally grazing on the campus and poisoning the dam with chemicals.
Read More Edo State Government has banned night grazing, the carrying of guns by herdsmen and has set up a seven-man committee in each of the 18 Local Government Areas in the state to check clashes between herdsmen and farmers.
Read More Sen. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, has said that while the Federal Government is determined to address the issues of farmers herdsmen clashes in Benue, it is constrained by the constitution.
Read More the Church of Christ in Nations, COCIN, has called on the Plateau State government and other states affected by the menace of open grazing to ban the practice to give succour to farmers.
Read More Kaduna—The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has described the anti-open grazing law recently passed by Benue State government as a time bomb, and called on the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to protect Fulani living in the state.
Read More Barely 48 hours to the commencement of enforcement of the Open Grazing Prohibition Law in Benue State on November 1, the Tiv traditional Church, Nongo U Kristu U I Ser U Sha Tar, NKST, also known as the Reformed Christian Church, has declared its support for the law and urged the state government to ensure its strict implementation.
Read More ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, disclosed that it had established a new security group, called Cattle Ranger, to curb cattle rustling as part of efforts to ensure success of its grazing policy in the country.
Read More Mr Ibrahim Atakunya, community leader of Rije Community in Kuje Area Council, FCT, has called on herdsmen to avoid grazing on farmlands to avert clashes and food crisis in the area.
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