Sentences with phrase «persons by herdsmen»

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.

Some indigenes of Benue State on Thursday besieged the main gate to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to protest against the killings of their people by herdsmen.

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Ever since the killings of our people started by Fulani herdsmen, Federal Government of Nigeria has never set up a special security committee, to find a way of addressing this existential threat.

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.

Youths in their hundreds are currently protesting the killings of people of the state by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.

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.

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 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.

Over 50 persons had been killed in attacks on Benue communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen after they invaded some parts of the Guma and Logo local government areas of the state on New Year's Day.

The gruesome murder of 24 people by Fulani herdsmen is quite condemnable.

At least six persons, including two teachers of the Makurdi Local Government Education Authority, have been reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen near Ikpayongo, Gwer Local Government...

Noting that the attacks by armed herdsmen predated the current administration, the governor said the recent attacks had displaced 170,000 people with children of school age constituting 60 per cent.

At least six persons, including two teachers of the Makurdi Local Government Education Authority, have been reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen near Ikpayongo, Gwer Local Government Area of Benue State.

Olumo said, «No tribe, including the Yoruba, will fold its arms while the lives and property of the people are being wasted by Fulani herdsmen.

Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) New Era, on Monday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately resign over his alleged failure to put a stop to the killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen across the country.

Shettima sympathised with Tiv people over the incessant attacks on their communities by suspected herdsmen, adding that the NGF would never abandon the state.

Frederick Fasehun, President of the Oodua People's Congress, OPC, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari over the persistent killings perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen across the country.

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union on Tuesday condemned the attack by suspected herdsmen on residents of Baking Kogi in the Jema'a Local Government of Kaduna State.

The Oodua People's Congress (OPC), has condemned the attack on Chief Olu Falae's farm by suspected herdsmen.

His decision came on the heels of the recent killing of people in the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

He said; «I have come here to commiserate with the people of Oke - Ako over the murder of two of our people by these evil Fulani herdsmen.

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.

Apart from killing people on his farm, neighbouring farms have been subject of attacks by these gun - wielding herdsmen.

«I am sure the people of Taraba State won't be hoodwinked by the President's cosmetic sympathy, show of concern and crocodile tears, which he never bordered to shed when hundreds of indigenes of the State were being killed by suspected herdsmen,» the governor said.

Worried by the spate of attacks and killing of innocent persons by armed herdsmen, the leadership of the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, Kaduna South District,...

The Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and the Agbekoya Farmers Association, AFA, have mobilised fighters in the Southwest against the continued killing of innocent farmers by Fulani herdsmen.

Mdzough U Tiv, Kaduna State Chapter, has observed that there is a grand plan by Fulani herdsmen to exterminate Tiv people from their God given land...

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The killings in Plateau communities have continued unabated as 8 people were said have been killed by suspected herdsmen in Nding loh, Fan District of Barkin...

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.

It would be recalled that the people of Benue State have been victims of extra-judicial killings occasioned by herdsmen almost on daily basis.

«No Niger Delta leader or person from this region that truly shares the pains of the people will subject him / herself to the antics of our oppressors; not now that our existence and dignity as a people is being threatened by Islamic mercenaries masquerading themselves as Fulani herdsmen.»

Observers can not be blamed for comparing Buhari's lack of action on the repeated plundering binge of Fulani herdsmen with the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, and his silencing by the military, when he proved stubborn while on bail.

Barely a week after the official launch of a five - year road map for peace strategy in Plateau State by President Muhammadu Buhari, suspected herdsmen have reportedly killed about 70 persons and injured scores in the state.

Minister of Defence, Mansur Muhammad Dan - Ali on Sunday declared that the call by elder statesman and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General TY Danjuma, to the people of Taraba state to take up arms and defend themselves in the face of Fulani herdsmen killings, is an invitation to anarchy.

The People of Southern Kaduna in Diaspora (SOKAD) has described as, «deficient of logic and reason» the non inclusion of Kaduna state by the sub-committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) set up to visit frontline States suffering from herdsmen versus farmers violence.

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.

The Benue state police command on Tuesday made clarifications on the figure of persons that were killed over the last two months during attacks by suspected herdsmen.

The statement read in part, «Governor Ortom commiserates with families of the victims, describing the attack on the young protesters as insensitive to the current mood of the people who are in grief over the killing of many innocent persons by armed herdsmen in Guma and Logo local government areas of the state.

In the most recent carnage, the «herdsmen» were «associated» with grave violence in Southern Kaduna resulting in the death of over 800 persons by the accounts of the Kaduna Catholic Diocese and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

No fewer than three youths including students were allegedly killed on Wednesday during the protest against the recent killings in Benue communities by suspected herdsmen which left over 50 persons in Logo and Guma local government areas of the state.

The Governor appeals to the people of the state to remain calm and resist the temptation to take the law into their hands as the State Government is exploring every lawful means to restore peace in the communities affected by renewed herdsmen attacks.»

This was a peace pact that was brokered by the Agatu people and the Fulani herdsmen.

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 Benue State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has claimed that the ongoing attacks on Agatu Local Government Area by suspected Fulani herdsmen was...

Ortom said that the fear of the people stemmed from continuous threat by the herdsmen who despite the killings still issued threat on daily basis to take over Benue land.