Herdsmen convert Ondo govt forest reserve into militia camp – fresh report reveals
Mrs Funke Olakunrin would have survived but police demanded N1,000 for fuel - Driver The time to act is now, we have nothing to lose - Gani Adams Fresh facts emerged on Saturday that herdsmen have converted the Ondo Government reserve located in the Odigbo Local Government Area into a militia camp, fresh report by the Punch has revealed. This indication buttressed the widespread claim that killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, 58-year-old daughter of the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, were herdsmen who sneaked out of the reserve to rain bullets on the vehicle she was
Herdsmen kidnap woman, stepson in Ondo, demand N10million ransom
A woman, Mrs Olawumi Adeleye and her stepson, Destiny Paul, were allegedly abducted on the Airport Road, in Osi town in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. The Punch reports that the victims were said to have been kidnapped by the bandits on their way from the church on Sunday evening. According to a source, the herdsmen blocked the road with cows, forcing the victims, who were in a Lexus car. they were thereafter abducted and taken to an unknown destination by the bandits. The source said, “Mrs Adeleye was coming from the church with her boy,
FG Opens Radio Station To Mitigate Herdsmen Crisis
The Federal Government says it has acquired an Amplitude Modulation radio broadcast licence to reach herdsmen across various locations in the country as parts of measures to enhance nomadic education. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, stated this in Abuja during an interview with newsmen, adding that the establishment of the radio frequency was to end the perennial farmers-herders crises across the country. The minister noted that the radio service would operate on frequency of 720KHz, and would air in Fulani language, as the government believes that the radio medium is one of the viable means to reach the herdsmen.
OBJ In The News, Says Boko Haram, Herdsmen Fighting To Islamise Nigeria
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented the deadly activities of Boko Haram and herdsmen in the country. According to him, the challenges have grown beyond what Nigeria alone can tackle following the groups’ collaboration with the Islamic State West African Province fighters. Obasanjo said, “It is no longer an issue of a lack of education and employment for our youths in Nigeria which it began as, it is now West African Fulanisation, African islamisation and global organised crimes of human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gun trafficking, illegal mining and regime change.” The ex-Head of State spoke on Saturday at
Insecurity: Ekiti set to begin registration of herdsmen
The Ekiti State Government has said it is now ready to conduct the registration of herdsmen in its territory to ensure the safety of farmers and their produce, as well as other residents. The Coordinator of the State Anti Grazing Task Force Marshals, Sola Durodola, who spoke to journalists on Saturday in Ado Ekiti, said the move became necessary to prevent herdsmen-farmers’ clashes in the state. Mr Durodola explained that the registration of the herdsmen would assist the government to know their number and be able to trace any act of criminality carried out by any of them in any
Herdsmen Kill Two Farmers, Injure 3 In Ekiti State
SUSPECTED herdsmen early yesterday attacked Eda, one of the communities under Iyemero town in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The gory incident claimed two lives and three persons were inflicted with injuries. Sources identified one of the dead as Mr. Danjuma Ali, a farmer. The identity of the second person, whose body has been deposited in the morgue of the General Hospital, Ikole-Ekiti, is yet to be known as at the time of going to the press. The Nation reports that those undergoing treatment at the emergency section of the Federal Teaching Hospital (FETHI), Ido-Ekiti include: Mrs. Jennifer Akoko,
Herdsmen Set Governor Ortom’s Rice Farm Ablaze
Over 20,000 hectares of rice farm belonging to Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom have been set ablaze by suspected herdsmen in Tse-Adorogo, Mbabeagh, Nzorov, Guma Local Government Area. In a telephone interview with The Nation, the governor said he had not harvested his rice farm, which is incorporated under Oracle Business Limited, before the suspected herdsmen set it ablaze. Orace Farms, which started when the governor was the Chairman of Guma Local Government Area, is into massive rice and soybeans cultivation. It was learnt that this was the fourth time Ortom’s farms had been attacked. When he was Minster of
Thunderous Rain Kills 23 Cows In Ekiti State
No fewer than 23 cows have been killed by thunder in Ekiti state, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The deafening thunder was accompanied by a downpour recorded in parts of the state in last couple of days. The incident, which occurred at Okeowa Eluju , a farmstead in Iloro-Ekiti, Ijero Local Government Area of the state, has caused apprehension among local residents. While confirming the incident, a Fulani herder and owner of the dead cows, Abdulkadri Kadiri, said he was devastated by the development. NAN reports that Kadiri described the incident as a strange occurrence. “I went to
Ortom Raises Alarm, Says Herdsmen Planning To Kill Me
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has raised the alarm of an alleged plot by militants herdsmen to kidnap, torture and kill him. Governor Ortom raised the alarm on Friday when he addressed church leaders, traditional rulers and other stakeholders in the state ahead of the 2019 elections. The forum was organized by the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi. Ortom said his sin remains the enactment of the grazing law in the state, adding that he got intelligence report that the militant herdsmen were planning to kidnap him along the busy Makurdi-Lafia Road and thereafter torture and kill him. He said
Revealed: How Herdsmen Are Renaming Communities Forcefully Taken By Them
According to a document obtained by the Vanguard, it has been revealed how the herdsmen in Nigeria are renaming communities invaded by them after their original occupiers have been attacked and displaced. The reports gave list of numerous communities invaded and renamed by Herdsmen dated back 2001 till date. The occupied communities include “Rotchun (aka Rafin Acha), Dankum (renamed “Mahanga”), Hywa (renamed”Lugere”), Fass (renamed “Tafawa”), Davwak, Chwelnyap, Lyoho Dakar, and Angwan Dalyop which were all attacked Between September 7 and 10, 2001 with the original inhabitants displaced. Others are, “Janda, attacked on 8th February, 2010; Darin, attacked on 28th April,
