By Kingsley Chukwuka Bandits suspected to be Lakurawa terrorists on Sunday invaded Unguwar Doruwar community of Katsina State, shooting without target to scare residents before rustling their cattle. The terrorists also during shooting, killed three villagers and injured two others before vanishing into an unknown destination. The Lakurawa terrorists invaded the village with a number […]
Cattle rearers in the country have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of letting them down on the security of their lives and properties throughout his tenure. They claimed that Buhari, a cattle breeder himself, ought to have brought cattle breeders and farmers together with a view to finding an amicable solution to the persistent conflicts that […]
The Kaduna Police Command, on Friday, said its operatives neutralized one bandit, arrested six and recovered 130 cattle and 80 sheep. This was expressed in a statement on Friday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige. The statement said the command acted on information that cattle rustlers were in Unguwan Haske Village of […]
Confusion has set in among pastoralists in Taraba state as 40 cattle died after allegedly eating a type of poisonous grass called ‘killer grass’. According to Daily Trust, all the cattle belong to a pastoralist in Gamgam village in the Bali Local Government Area. It was gathered that the incident occurred around 11am Sunday shortly […]
Warring parties in Southern Kaduna on Thursday agreed to an immediate cessation of attacks, kidnappings and cattle rustling following a three-day peace summit. The peace summit, which was held in Kafanchan, was convened by the Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) in collaboration with friends of Southern Kaduna. The warring parties said this in a communiqué […]
Umuahia – Mr Dan Okoli, the Commissioner for Homeland Security in Abia, says that herders in the state will henceforth be profiled as part of the measures to prevent future conflicts with farmers. Okoli made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Umuahia, saying that the essence […]
The leaders of Agbekoya, Alhaji Lalekan Lasisi Akekaaka has said that the clashes between farmers and the Fulani headers were due to that fact that many government officials buy cows and give them to the Fulani people to rear for them to make money in Ibadan. Akekaaka speaking with the Punch said: ‘Like I said, […]
Dutse – The Farmers and Herdsmen Board in Jigawa on Thursday said that the creation of grazing reserve and cattle routes had drastically reduced the face-off between the farmers and herdsmen in the state. The Board’s Executive Secretary, Alhaji Rabiu Miko, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse that the state government had […]
Says FG loses $1.3 billion annually on importation of dairy The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar, has disclosed that out of the 19.5 million cattle in Nigeria, 85 percent are owned by individuals, herders and operators in the informal sector. She further disclosed that the country loses $1.3 billion […]
The Special Task Force in Plateau (STF), code name Operation Safe Haven had dispelled rumor making the rounds in state as reported by some National Dailies that the Fulani herdsmen are planning to lunch attack as a result of some alleged rustled cattle numbering 350. The Commander of the STF, Major General Anthony Atolagbe, who […]
A traditional ruler, Chief Iorbee Lada, has called on the leadership of Miyyetti Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria to impress on herders grazing cattle in Benue State to formerly register with traditional rulers and community leaders, so as to fashion out how they could move with their cattle without destroying farm lands and so […]
A Fulani community leader, Alhaji Dodo Oroji, has appealed to the incoming administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to address the problems of grazing reserves and stop cattle rustling in order to save Fulani herdsmen in the country. Oroji made the appeal in an interview on Monday, in Kaduna. He said it was important to […]
The Kara Cattle Market on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is more than a place to buy and sell cattle. GBUBEMI GOD’S COVENANT SNR reports a community of many tribes and tongues devoid of politics, ethnicity and tribalism and, it doesn’t cost the earth to own or buy a cow. The Kara Cattle Market situated in […]