Sentences with phrase «killings by herdsmen»

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.

A former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said he decided to run for the 2019 presidential election because of the spate of killings by herdsmen across the country.

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.

Civil rights groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the incessant killings by herdsmen, particularly in the...

Four persons were reportedly killed by herdsmen at the Guma and Agatu local government areas of the state on Sunday, while one herdsman was reported killed at Lower Benue, a suburb of Makurdi, on Saturday.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday spoke on what is expected of President Muhammadu Buhari over unjust killings by herdsmen the country.

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.

Soyinka said he came to his conclusion based on «unforced errors,» adding that the President's body language had aggravated killings by herdsmen in the country.

«My driver's younger brother and five others students of college of education Gidan Waya were ambushed and killed by herdsmen yesterday #SouthernKaduna,» he said in one of the tweets.

Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has once again challenged the Federal Government to stop the continuous killings by herdsmen across the country particularly Christians in the Middle Belt, if «it does not have a hand in it.»

He also warned that the situation could degenerate into a civil war, if the bloody killings by herdsmen are not treated as a matter of national importance.

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.

The gunmen attacked and killed two men including a member of Operation Rainbow, the Plateau State Security outfit, in a farm at Takowok village, while four others in Rahol Gasa were also killed by the herdsmen.

The Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called for prayers to stop killings by herdsmen.

To demonstrate its seriousness about tackling killings by herdsmen, the group called for the declaration of Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association and the proscription of the association.

Somorin lamented that recurrent killing by herdsmen such as the latest invasion of Ukpabi, Nimbo Community in the Uzo - Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, was becoming too many.

The Joint Task - Force (JTF) in Enugu State says it has re-strategised to meet current security challenges and check indiscriminate killings by herdsmen.

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.

Civil rights groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the incessant killings by herdsmen, particularly in the Northern part of the country.

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.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar, has queried the competence of the security agencies and their inability to stop the attacks and killings by herdsmen in Benue State.

Hundreds have been killed by the herdsmen in central Nigeria this year.

He said, «As a people, we need to tread carefully here on the killings by the herdsmen across the country.

The Minister, while addressing newsmen in Abuja, had said that the blockage of cattle routes across the country was the remote cause of the killings by herdsmen..

, on Tuesday, in Abuja, held a crucial meeting with heads of internal security agencies over the killings by herdsmen and other security challenges in the country.

The Plateau State Governor, Mr. Solomon Lalong, has apologised for his comments on the killings by herdsmen in Benue State.

The President had last Tuesday visited Taraba State where he expressed sympathy with victims of the killings by herdsmen.

We also believe that the criminal silence of the executive and the government not saying anything about the killings by the herdsmen is corruption.

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.

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.

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.

It notes that the failure of the government to raise an effective campaign against the killings by herdsmen is the reason they have continued to kill, while there is no visible plan to pacify the aggrieved.

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.

He wondered why Bello and Oyegun should say that there was no alternative to President Buhari in 2019, while Nigerians were being killed by herdsmen, Book Haram and hunger on a daily basis

He explained that his uncle, Julius Ntwangwa, who worked with the Benue State Agriculture and Rural Development Agency, was among those killed by the herdsmen, who dropped his corpse at the back of the house.

The students» colleague had travelled home to inform his parents that he had successfully completed his final year project when he was killed by herdsmen.

Speaking after the State Security Meeting in Makurdi, Ortom said that no matter the level of intimidation and killings by the herdsmen, the anti-open grazing law would not be reversed or repealed.

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.

Two civil society organisations, CD and CACOL, said the Buhari - led Federal Government did not deserve to continue in office unless it addressed the «incessant killings by herdsmen» in Benue State.

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Dr «Supo Ayokunle has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to forget re-election in 2019, if the incessant killings by herdsmen, as well as general insecurity in the country is not urgently addressed.

He said that no matter the intimidation and killings by the herdsmen, the law would not be reversed or repealed.