Sentences with phrase «by herdsmen in»
Five people have been killed in fresh attacks by herdsmen in different locations of Benue State.
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Labo speaking on Channels Tv said this was the only solution to halt killings by herdsmen in some parts of the country, adding that putting herdsmen on watchlist would attract the international community.
He said the step was taken in view of the state governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki's pronouncement, banning only night grazing by herdsmen in the state.
The group, in a statement on Tuesday by its President, Kwaghbo Simeon, and Secretary, Chado Isaac, lamented that despite continued killings by herdsmen in Benue State, the Federal Government had yet to address the problem with the required seriousness.
Disclosing that they lost over 68 people to attacks by herdsmen in Taraba State, Ubeh said it would be in the interest of anybody if the people take up arms to protect themselves because government is failing in its responsibility.
A group, Mdzough U Tiv, Lagos State chapter, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to proscribe the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, as a solution to the killings by herdsmen in the country.
He decried the loss of innocent lives and the destruction of cash crops and farmlands by the herdsmen in several rural communities across the Edo South senatorial district.
The statement said, «The state government should prepare a bill to be sent to the state House of Assembly for consideration against the indiscriminate grazing of cattle on our farmlands to curtail this widespread evil by the herdsmen in Ondo State.»
The state governor, Samuel Ortom while fielding questions from newsmen in Makurdi, said the case will cover the 73 persons first killed by herdsmen in January this year.
He said: «Since President Muhammadu Buhari met with the Archbishop of Canterbury in London on Wednesday, and spoke on the likely impact of gunmen trained by former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, on the killings by herdsmen in Nigeria, some people have virtually flown off the handle, ululating as if wailing was going out of fashion.
Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's comments on former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, on the killings by herdsmen in Nigeria was misinterpreted to score cheap political goals.
In Bassa LGA within the past week, about 40 persons have lost their lives as a result attacks by herdsmen in Nzharuvo, Dundu and Rafiki / Dong villages.
The Tuesday attack came barely four days after the murder of 10 persons by herdsmen in the Guma LGA, and the destruction of houses in the Naka, Gwer LGA by men suspected to be military personnel who claimed to be searching for killers of a soldier.
They will never subject themselves to the whim and caprices of a President who looked the other way when thousands of people were being killed by herdsmen in Benue, Taraba, Plateau and other States.
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), South - South region, has accused the Federal Government of supporting the wanton killings by herdsmen in some states of the Middle - Belt.
The Plateau State Governor, Mr. Solomon Lalong, has apologised for his comments on the killings by herdsmen in Benue State.
It was further gathered that the father and son were abducted by the herdsmen in the farm on Friday while their bodies were found by some Agatu hunters on Saturday morning.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N10bn for the renovation of villages ravaged by herdsmen in Benue and other Nigerian states.
Hundreds have been killed by the herdsmen in central Nigeria this year.
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A Christian news agency has said at least 30 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria by Islamist Fulani herdsmen.
An attack by herdsmen on a Catholic church in central Nigeria - which police say left 16 people dead... More
When he was sixteen, he was captured by Irish pirates and spent six bleak years as a herdsman in County Mayo, during which he turned with fervor to Christ.
A mass funeral was held on Thursday for 72 Christian farmers killed by Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria.
Luka Binniyat has been remanded in custody by Kaduna State High Court after being accused of publishing a false report of an attack by nomadic Fulani herdsman.
Binniyat had been detained since 12th July, charged with «breach of the peace» and «injurious falsehood,» in connection with a story he wrote about an attack by armed Fulani herdsmen in southern Kaduna in January 2017 that later proved incorrect.
A mass funeral was held on Thursday for 72 Christian farmers killed by Fulani herdsmen in central Ni... More
The attack is thought to have been by Fulani herdsmen, a group who have had several clashes with the Christian community in Nigeria over the years.
The incident came barely three days after four herdsmen were said to have been killed by gunmen in the same place.
A witness said that the crisis started when some Fulani youths stormed Ungwan Uka village to avenge the death of a certain herdsman allegedly killed by some village youths at a farm in the area.
«Was I funding the Agatus in Benue State when I condemned their killings by Fulani herdsmen?
Chukwudum said that government should be blamed for the invasion of Nimbo community in Uzo - Uwani Local Government Area by suspected herdsmen.
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...
John Charles The representative of the Pope in Nigeria will lead about 50 Catholic bishops to the mass burial of two priests and parishioners, who were killed by herdsmen at Mbalon community in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State on Tuesday.
Every state and community across Nigeria affected by the menace of Fulani herdsmen and the absence of rule of law are advised to join IPOB on the 30th of May to sit - at - home to bring Nigeria to a halt in honour of those that died.
While leading the debate on the motion, Senator Danjuma La'ah said, «on the 23rd December, 2016 and even as we speak, communities of Ambam, Gaska, Dangoma, Tsonje, Pasankori, Gidan Waya and Farin Gada of Jama'a and Kaura local government area have been under serious attack by the herdsmen, resulting in several deaths, injuries, and wanton destruction of properties worth billions of naira».
The Benue State government has banned public processions following Wednesday uproar when residents in Makurdi took to the streets to express their grievances over incessant killing of people in the rural areas by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Security has been beefed up in communities in Kwahu East Districts where eight people have lost their lives in an attack by Fulani herdsmen.
Ogbonnaya who rose from the All Progressives Congress (APC) South - East stakeholders meeting said the call is uncalled for, as President Muhammadu Buhari has directed relevant agencies to take appropriate actions in halting the killings by suspected herdsmen.
The Senate confirmed that within the last 12 months, Nigeria has «witnessed a harvest of killings by the Marauding Herdsmen with several cases of massacre in Agatu in Benue State, Uzo Uwani in Enugu State, with several attacks in Taraba, Delta and Edo States, to mention but a few.»
Youths in their hundreds are currently protesting the killings of people of the state by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.
Pastor Tunde Bakare, General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, has berated the Department of State Services, DSS, over its alleged silence on the killings perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on the Federal Government to do more to end attacks and killings allegedly by criminal herdsmen in...
The panel set up by Chief of Army Staff, Lt.General Tukur Buratai, to investigate alleged military connivance with herdsmen in Taraba State submitted its report yesterday...
Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is not behind herdsmen killings as claimed by some people in the country...
The Nigerian Army has spoken on the recent killings recorded in some Benue communities by suspected herdsmen.
«Recently, some religious leaders led by former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, were in Southern Kaduna to mediate between the herdsmen and farmers.
The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday expressed displeasure with the mindless killings of people by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State and other parts of the country.
The Command in a statement signed by its spokesman, Ahmad Mohammed said the killings were as a result of a reprisal attack between the villagers of Ohali - Elu and herdsmen in the area.
Hagher, a Second Republic senator and President of the African Leadership Institute, United States, specifically criticised President Buhari for the way he had handled the killings by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.