Sentences with phrase «nigerians by herdsmen»

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has warned that Nigeria is on the verge of another Civil War following the yet - to - be addressed incessant killings of other Nigerians by herdsmen.

Not exact matches

Against the backdrop of continued attacks and killings in Taraba State by herdsmen and bandits, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Saturday 12 May 2018 deployed its Special Forces to the newly established 23 Quick Response Wing (QRW), Nguroje in Taraba State.

Against the backdrop of continued attacks and killings in Taraba State by herdsmen and bandits, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Saturday 12 May 2018 deployed its Special Forces...

Buhari, who gave the assurance during his meeting with Trump at the White House, said Nigerians were concerned about the resort to arms by some herdsmen.

The Nigerian Army on Friday said allegations made against it that troops were colluding with herdsmen to kill innocent citizens of North Central States particularly Taraba, by retired Gen. TheophilusYakubu Danjuma and refused to protect the people were untrue.

Following the incessant killings of Nigerians by suspected killer herdsmen with no solution at hand, a House of Representatives hopeful for Ughelli and Udu Federal Constituency,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N10bn for the renovation of villages ravaged by herdsmen in Benue and other Nigerian states.

Following the incessant killings of Nigerians by suspected killer herdsmen with no solution at hand, a House of Representatives hopeful for Ughelli and Udu Federal Constituency, Comrade Akpokona Omafuaire, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, stressing that,» He is incompetent.»

The Nigerian Army has spoken on the recent killings recorded in some Benue communities by suspected herdsmen.

Kukah, who stated this when Nigerian Catholic Bishops visited the communities attacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen, leading to massive destruction of lives and properties.

Officers of Nigerian Army's Guard's Brigade have foiled an attempted invasion of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by heavily armed Fulani herdsmen from both the Nasarawa and the Gwagwalada axis.

Under them hundreds of thousands of innocent Nigerians have been raped, maimed, robbed and massacred by well - armed, well - funded and well - organised Fulani militias and herdsmen all over the country yet not one of the perpetrators has been arrested or brought to justice simply because they are members of the President's ethnic group and they are his loyal foot - soldiers.

In the article titled: «Impunity rides again through killer herdsmen», Soyinka lamented that many of the solutions already proffered by concerned Nigerians have been jettisoned.

With the spate of Insurgence in the North east which is currently being quelled by the Nigerian troops, the invasion of killer herdsmen into communities and resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta coupled with agitations by pro-Biafra protesters have been a major source of concern to the Federal Government.

Prof. Ango Abdullahi, former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, has said nobody can deny the Fulani herdsmen access to parts of the country if the Nigerian Constitution is anything to by.

Public scepticism has been re-enforced by the blockbuster accusation by General T.Y Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister that the Nigerian Military under Buhari are «colluding» with «armed bandits» (read Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen) to carry out ethnic cleansing across communities in central Nigeria!

Personal affairs such as health and the accident of his son get jet - speed attention but the health, education needs, unemployment and electricity needs of Nigerians, and carnage of farming communities by Fulani herdsmen get the country's unification consideration and setting up of a committee and no arrest.

«Having said that, let it be known that we find the statement by the Presidency stating that 756 Nigerians were killed by Fulani herdsmen in two years under the government of former President Jonathan as a mischievous assertion by a callous Presidential spokesman who thinks that death is something to be trivialized.

«While in office, the former President knew that the capacity of the Nigerian police would be challenged by the sophistication of arms available to the herdsmen and so after he was elected President and sworn in on May 29, 2011, former President Jonathan summoned a National Security Council meeting and ordered that Fulani herdsmen attack must be decisively dealt with.

«In July 2012, the Plateau state government reported that herdsmen killings had reached a head in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area leading to tens of deaths of Nigerian citizens by Fulani herdsmen, many of whom were not even Nigerian citizens.

In an interview on AIT and monitored by DAILY POST, Bakare said expectations of Nigerians had not been met by the Federal Government and that he was particularly disappointed about the handling of killings by herdsmen, particularly that of Benue State.

He said naming the beneficiaries of the money would disabuse the minds of Nigerians of the conflict that Christians were the targets of incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen.

The Federal Government is not helping its own image with the belief by Nigerians that the presidency is always silent when the issue concerns Fulani herdsmen.

The massacre of MASSOB / IPOB members in Aba, the Ezu - River, killing of six Igbo traders in Abuja (the Apo six) the invasion of Igbo land by the Fulani herdsmen, all these, Amnesty International has not and will never see reasons to indict Nigerian Government because they are being controlled by the North.

The Christian Association of Nigerian has condemned the killing of Christians in Southern Kaduna describing it as ethnic and religious cleansing by «Islamic fundamentalists disguising as Fulani herdsmen», with evil intention of wiping off non-Muslims.

It is news of innocent Nigerians being killed all over the place by bandits, kidnappers, and Fulani herdsmen.

Barely 24 hours after troops of the Nigerian Army arrested a notorious herdsman said to be the brain behind most killings in Benue state, another herdsman has been nabbed by soldiers.

The police boss described as untrue, comments by some notable Nigerians that the law enforcement agents had yet to apprehend any herdsmen in connection with the killings in the state.

By failing to protect Nigerians from Fulani herdsmen attacks, the CAN leader said the government had failed to uphold the constitution which it swore to uphold.

Rather than arrest and prosecute the Fulani herdsmen, security forces usually manned by Muslims from the North offer them protection as they unleash terror with impunity on the Nigerian people.

The cleric urged the Nigerian military to sustain the current onslaught against Boko Haram, insisting that killings by both the sect and herdsmen must stop.

Achi - Okpaga said, «The spate of blatant and inconceivable killings of helpless Nigerians by the Fulani herdsmen have been so alarming and uncontrollable.

A group of Niger Delta agitators has urged the Nigerian Army stop the incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

ORA while insisting that the idea of the federal government to establish cattle colonies or grazing reserves for the herdsmen was a direct ploy to take Nigerians» lands and give to the Fulanis, implored all herdsmen to move their cattle to the allocated lands reserved for such purpose by both Kano and Niger state governments saying that the allocated lands were enough to accommodate herdsmen and their cattle.

The Middle Belt Rights Congress, MBRC, has reacted to the arrest of suspected notorious killer herdsmen, Idi Gemun, Aliyu Teshaku and others by the Nigerian troops...

While the military was quick to illegally and unconstitutionally declare armless IPOB members as terrorists for peacefully agitating for their rights, it becomes so dumb and voiceless to the gruesome genocide being carried out by the killer Fulani herdsmen against Nigerians.

Dan - Ali statement came just the Nigerian Army claimed that General Danjuma's accusation that the Army was colluding with the herdsmen to kill the people was occasioned by the refusal of the army to remain neutral in the crises rather than supporting one side against the other.

Rising from their expanded meeting on the state of the Nation on Wednesday, leader of the group, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, disclosed that they discussed extensively, the ongoing massacre of innocent Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen, particularly, the Agatu and Enugu killings where dozens of people were killed.

A statement by Jimoh Moshood, the police spokesman, said the measures have been taken by the IGP to nip in the bud and prevent further attacks on innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen and other criminal elements in the mentioned States.

To this end, the Deputy Inspector General of Police Operations has been dispatched by the IGP to Benue State to muster, coordinate and supervise the implementation of the new security strategies put in place by the Force to put an immediate end to the senseless killings and violence unleashed on innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen and other criminal elements in the two States.

While the Nigerian state seems to be deploying its security machinery to tackle threats to peace by militants in the Niger Delta and Boko Haram in the North - East, not much has been done to counter the threats posed by Fulani herdsmen who consider the whole country their private turf.

And, as is often the case in attacks of this nature across the length and breadth of the country, especially those concerning the Fulani herdsmen, the victims suddenly realise their vulnerability — they can not be protected by the Nigerian state.