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Miyetti Allah

Presidential aide meets Plateau cleric, Miyetti Allah in renewed peace efforts

Abiodun Essiet, the senior special assistant to the president on community engagement, has met with Plateau-based cleric Ezekiel Dachomo as part of ongoing peacebuilding initiatives in the state. In a statement on Sunday, presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga said Essiet was dispatched by President Bola Tinubu as a peace envoy to Plateau. During her two-day visit, […]

Miyetti Allah demands probe into killing of Fulani, seeks compensation in Kwara

The Kwara State chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called on the state government and security agencies to investigate the alleged killing of Fulani residents in Edu Local Government Area. In a statement issued in Ilorin, the state chairman of MACBAN, Alhaji Shehu Garba, urged the government to also […]

Miyetti Allah levels weighty accusation against Nigerian Police

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Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, one of the umbrella bodies of herdsmen in Nigeria, on Friday accused policemen along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway of “arbitrary arrests of Fulani herders and criminal extortion”. Saleh Alhassan, the National Secretary of the group, made this allegation in a press statement. According to him, sinless Fulani herders grazing cattle in villages […]

Miyetti Allah Leader Assassinated In Kaduna

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Unknown gunmen have assassinated the Chairman of the Lere LGA chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) in Kaduna, Abubakar Abdullahi. Naija News reports that the incident was made known on Friday by MACBAN Kaduna spokesperson, Ibrahim Bayero. According to Bayero, gunmen invaded Abdullahi’s home in Lere LGA of Kaduna in the early […]

Anti-open grazing law: One cow could cost N2m – Miyetti Allah warns Lagos

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Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has warned that the price of a cow could skyrocket to N2 million in Lagos State if the government goes ahead with the anti-grazing bill. Meikudi Usman, the Zonal Secretary of Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, in the South West, stated this during a one-day public hearing organised by […]

Open Grazing Bill: Miyetti Allah demands 750,000 hectares of land for ranching in Delta

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Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), on Tuesday, requested the Delta State Government to grant its members 750,000 square meters of land as designated space for grazing and ranching as deliberations progress on the ban on open grazing bill before the State House of Assembly. It was gathered that against […]

Miyetti Allah to send members to America to learn modern cattle ranching

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The Miyetti Allah association is planning to train some Fulani pastoralists on modern ranching methodsTo this end, some of them will be travelling to California, USA, in early 2022 to learn how it is being done over there. This will expose them to modern and sophisticated techniques in cattle husbandry, dairy abattoir and cattle field […]

Miyetti Allah to Buhari, NASS: Stop Govs from implementing anti-open grazing laws

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*Describes the legislations as satanic, obnoxious The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), on Monday, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to do everything possible to stop governors from implementing the anti-open grazing laws enacted in some states, describing the laws as satanic and against their age-long tradition. Recall that […]

Miyetti Allah: Ban On Open Grazing Will Remain Ineffective In S/East Until…

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The South East Chairman of Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Gidado Siddiki, has rejected the ban on open grazing in the region by the Southern governors. According to Siddiki, the ban will remain ineffective until an alternative to open grazing is provided for the herders. The herdsmen leader revealed that the government has […]

Miyetti Allah Backs Buhari On Recovery Of Grazing Routes

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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has welcomed the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for all encroached grazing routes across the country to be recovered. In an interview on Arise News on Thursday, Buhari had directed the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to begin the process of recovering land from […]

“They are all jokers” – Miyetti Allah mocks Southern Governors over open grazing ban

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Fulani socio-cultural organization, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has described the 17 governors of the southern States as jokers for banning open grazing in their region. The National President of the Association, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, stated this in an interview with Daily Sun in Abuja. “Governors don’t have the constitutional power to do what they have […]

Miyetti Allah okays ban on open grazing

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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has okayed the decision of the Southern Governors to ban open grazing in the region. This was disclosed by the National Patron of MACBAN, Senator Walid Jibrin, on Thursday, while addressing newsmen in Kaduna State. READ ALSO: Updated: Ban on Open Grazing: Southern governors decision final, […]

Miyetti Allah asks herdsmen to leave southern states over ban on open grazing

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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has called on all Fulani herdsmen in the southern states of Nigeria to leave the region following a call by the governors to ban open grazing. In a statement signed by Chairman of the Bauchi State chapter of MACBAN, Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmed, and made available to […]

Miyetti Allah: Fulani people ready for breakup of Nigeria, more than any other ethnic nationality

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The National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhassan Saleh, says the Fulani ethnic group is more prepared for division of Nigeria than any other ethnic nationality. Amid the insecurity and tension caused by clashes between farmers and herders in some parts of Nigeria, southern governors had recently banned open cattle grazing in the entire […]

Miyetti Allah, Nnamdi Kanu ‘fight’ over alleged killing of herdsmen

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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association (MACBAN), and the leader of the proscribed Igbo separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have resorted to a war of words following the alleged killing of herdsmen in Anambra State. The accusations and counter accusations between the two groups came on Thursday after the National Secretary of […]

FG seeks Miyetti Allah’s help to end security challenges in Nigeria

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The Federal Government on Monday called for collaboration with the Miyetti Allah group towards ridding the country of the security challenges facing it. The President, in a statement on Monday by his Media Assistant, Garba Shehu, stressed the commitment of his administration to work with all members of the Miyetti Allah society in a bid […]

So-called bandits are displaced herdsmen fighting for their rights – Miyetti Allah

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The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore (MAKH), one of the umbrella bodies of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria, says the bandits currently wreaking havoc in many parts of the country are displaced herdsmen who are fighting for their rights and freedom. Spokesman of the group, Saleh Hassan, said on Wednesday that the herders decided to take the […]

Ortom’s supporters tried to kill him, not Fulani herdsmen: Miyetti Allah

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Miyetti Allah says supporters of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue, not Fulani herdsmen, attempted to assassinate him. On Saturday, Mr Ortom said herders attacked him on his farm near Tyo-mu, along Makurdi-Gboko Highway. The governor linked the attack to the state’s anti-open grazing policy, saying his government will not repeal a law adopted in 2018 […]

Miyetti Allah Says No Food For Yorubas Until Fulanis Are Safe

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Miyetti Allah Has Said that there is No Food For Yorubas Until Fulanis Are Finally Safe in the Religion. Daily Times reports that the Coordinator of the Kwara State chapter of Miyetti Allah Association of Cattle Breeders, Aliyu Mohammed, has said that the blockage of cattle and foodstuffs to the South West through Kwara State […]

Sultan, Miyetti Allah move to address herdsmen’s question

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Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and the leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) on Friday met in Abuja to address challenges confronting pastoralists in the country. The Sultan, who is the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the association, harped on the need to find workable solutions to address security […]