IG says only 3, not 500 people were killed by herdsmen in Agatu

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, has described reports that over 500 people were killed in Agatu community of Benue state by Fulani herdsmen. The IGP, at the investigative hearing organised by the House of Representatives committee on the killings in Benue State claimed that 3 people and not 500 died from the... Read More

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May 26, 2016

The Conversation: ‘Fayose wants to start a civil war’

Every week, we go searching for everyday Nigerians and we have an unfiltered conversation via WhatsApp or BlackBerry with them on the most urgent issues facing our nation. There is no artifice, and no preparation. We want to know exactly how people see their country and it’s biggest challenges – just the way you talk... Read More

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May 26, 2016

Herdsmen desperately beg Fayose

Following the Ekiti State Governor’s eye-for-an-eye tack in handling the Fulani Herdsmen crisis, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has appealed for the overturn of the ban on herdsmen and their grazing cattle. Channels Television spoke to the secretary general of the association, Baba Ngelzerma, and he talked about the readiness of the group... Read More

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May 25, 2016

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

Here are the top five stories we will be tracking today. EFCC vs Omisore The Economic and Financial Crime’s Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday declared the former Deputy Governor of Osun states, Senator Iyiola Omisore, wanted in connection to N700 million fraud. However, Omisore, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has denied the... Read More

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May 24, 2016

Governor Fayose incites hunters in Ekiti to fight herdsmen

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, on Monday, banned Fulani herdsmen from operating within the state. The Governor also incited hunters in the state to curb the herdsmen attack in whatever means possible. This follows the recent attacking of a community in the state. Watch video below https://youtu.be/s5KdwFJt9EE

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May 23, 2016

Fayose bans Fulani herdsmen from Ekiti state

The controversial Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose has banned the movement of cattle for grazing and rearing purposes in the state following the attack on Oke-Ako in Ikole local government area of the State by Fulani herdsmen which left 2 dead and several injured on Friday, May 20. According to Premium Times, the governor, in... Read More

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May 22, 2016

“President Buhari defended Fulani herdsmen in 2000” | Fayose opens a can of worms on herdsmen attack

In reaction to the killing of two residents and the injuring of others in Oke Ako in Ikole local government area of Ekiti State by Fulani herdsmen, Governor Ayodele Fayose has declared that he cannot guarantee there will be no reprisal attacks if the carnage by the herdsmen were to continue. Fayose, consoling the people... Read More

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May 15, 2016

Fulani herdsmen ‘attack Benue community, 5 dead’

While the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, was busy praising the Buhari administration for the removal of fuel subsidy, Leadership is reporting that Fulani herdsmen attacked his state, killing five persons. The herdsmen were said to have attacked Agwabi community in Binev council ward of Buruku local government area of Benue State on Friday night.... Read More

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May 15, 2016

“We are not planning on attacking Enugu” – Fulani community

The Fulani community in Enugu state, on Saturday, assured the people of the state that they are not planning to attack any community in the state, thus dispelling the rumour of a planned attack on Nze Community in Udi local government area of the state. Speaking at the palace of the traditional rulers of the... Read More

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May 11, 2016

The IGP has sent detectives to Enugu over ‘Fulani herdsmen’ killings

The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase has sent a high-powered team of police detectives to the Nimbo community in Enugu state where dozens of people were killed by the herdsmen. According to The newly-installed State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, the dispatched police detectives are to “unravel the remote and immediate causes of the incident and... Read More

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May 11, 2016

Nigeria will soon start importing semen (yes, semen) from Europe

According to the Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, Nigeria has plans to start importing semen from Europe. No fear: semen to be imported are for cows and not humans. The minister, while speaking at the open session in the National Assembly on Tuesday, March 10 explained the different ways the Federal Government was looking to... Read More

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May 11, 2016

Fayose says he will not allow any grazing reserve in his state

Governor Ayodele Fayose has declared that while he is open to state governments establishing grazing ranches for herdsmen in their local communities, he will not give any part of his state’s land as grazing reserve for the herdsmen. In recent times, the spate of killings attributed to the herdsmen has drastically increased with hundreds of... Read More

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May 8, 2016

Fulani herdsmen attack Taraba communities, 13 dead, several injured

Perhaps emboldened by the inaction of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration towards curbing their activities, the dreaded Fulani herdsmen have struck again. This time in Korum, Orawua and Gidan Bature communities in Gassol Local Government Council of Taraba State. About 13 persons were allegedly killed in the Saturday attack, which was confirmed by the Police... Read More

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May 4, 2016

Enugu police commissioner removed over herdsmen attack

The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Nwodibo Ekechukwu, has been removed by the Nigeria Police Force over the attack of suspected Fulani herdsmen on Ukpabi Nimbo in Enugu State. Last week Monday, about 20 people in Ukpabi Nimbo community in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state were killed while many other residents... Read More

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May 3, 2016

Nigerians in London protest Fulani herdsmen attacks (PHOTOS)

Following the increase in Fulani herdsmen attacks in the country, Nigerians living in London, United Kingdom, on Tuesday, took to the streets, to protest the killing and perceived inaction of President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government. Photos from the protest:

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April 29, 2016

Reuben Abati: Cattle herdsmen as the new Boko Haram

“No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the seeming emergence of the former as the new Boko Haram, forbidding not Western education this time, but the right of... Read More

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April 26, 2016

Confusion: Army, police disagree on whereabouts of arrested Fulani herdsmen

The Nigerian army and police made contrary claims on the location of the 56 Fulani herdsmen that were last week, arrested with weapons in Abuja. The army had announced the arrest of 56 armed Fulani herdsmen at a military checkpoint in Abuja and another 36 at a checkpoint in Keffi, Nasarawa State. Speaking on the... Read More

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April 19, 2016

Opinion: Why Nigerians must boycott beef now

by Edikan Uko We should stop eating beef in Nigeria. Here’s why? It is now officially worse than blood diamonds. The people who rear cows and trade in cows are terrorists popularly known as Fulani herdsmen. They are no ordinary ‘herdsmen’, they are terrorists. A report published by Independent UK, named the Fulani Herdsmen as the... Read More

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April 15, 2016

Minister of Interior blames social media for Fulani herdsmen attacks

The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau has tagged social media as the reason why there have been more clashes between the deadly Fulani herdsmen and farmers, across the country. Dambazau said this on Thursday, April 14 during an inaugural meeting on the Fulani Herdsmen conflict in Abuja. The minister’s blame of social media for the... Read More

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April 4, 2016

Fulani herdsmen attack Enugu community; 2 siblings killed, 19 missing

Fulani herdsmen have struck again! This time on a Thursday, in Abbi Community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State, where two people were killed. While the Nigerian government is yet to take decisive action on the bloody massacre in Agatu, Benue state, several weeks after it occurred, the pastoral Fulani continues its spate of... Read More

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April 4, 2016

Catholic Priest abducted by Fulani herdsmen

A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Aniako Celestine, was on Saturday, abducted by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Owa community in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. Father Celestine, who is in charge of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Ukana, Udi LGA, was kidnapped on his way from his home town, Ezeagu. Vanguard reports that the herdsmen... Read More

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November 13, 2015

‘Yorubas are too sensitive’ – 7 things we learned from Gani Adams’ new interview

In a recent interview where he spoke on the increased rate of attacks by Fulani herdsmen in Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams, the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress, had quite a lot to say. Find below 7 things about the Yoruba race, as explained by Otunba Gani Adams. 1. Fulani herdsmen are perpetual threats to Yoruba people... Read More

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February 8, 2015

Drama as cows block expressway in Ondo, cause accident (See Photos)

by Anike Jacobs During the week, a mild drama occurred in Akure, the Ondo state capital over the sharing formula of cows numbering 11, crushed to death by a luxurious bus. According to Vanguard Newspapers, the incident occurred around 4am along the Akure-Owo expressway. Although no death was recorded or any passenger wounded in the bus but their sleep was disrupted... Read More

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November 2, 2014

Fulani herdsmen kill 20, set scores of houses ablaze in Nasarawa

by Akan Ido Twenty people have been reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen today following a wave of attacks on Gidan Gambo, Abaagu, Atabela, Assakio, Assahangwa, Adamu Agyo and host of other communities in the southern senatorial zone of in Nasarawa State. Areas affected in the fresh attack by the suspected Fulani insurgents included Ikposogye, Lega Obi,... Read More

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March 20, 2014

Opinion: I doubt if Fulani herdsmen are responsible for these attacks

by Tahir Talba Fulani herdsmen have attacked and have been violent, yes; but that characteristic or conduct has always only come to play when issues regarding cattle, farmlands and tribal discord are involved. There skirmishes and battles and fights have never been religious, and neither have they been this sophisticated, brazen and frequent. I would... Read More

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March 14, 2014

Benue crisis: Fulani herdsmen kill 22 people in Suswam’s village

by Adeola Balogun Barely 3 days after the Governor of Benue, Gabriel Suswam, escaped an attack by Fulani mercenaries by the whiskers, his hometown has been ransacked by the mercenaries. The governor’s village at Anyii in the Logo Local Government Area of the state was invaded by the marauders who are said to have killed... Read More

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December 23, 2012

Gruesome: How herdsmen raped bride and killed 21 people in Ogun

For allegedly refusing some herdsmen the usage of their farmlands to graze their herds, no fewer than 21 people of Ketuland in Yewa North local government area of Ogun State were slaughtered while women, young and old, including a bride, were allegedly raped. Among those allegedly killed were five members of a family. Some Ketuland... Read More

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IG says only 3, not 500 people were killed by herdsmen in Agatu

The Conversation: ‘Fayose wants to start a civil war’

Herdsmen desperately beg Fayose

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

Governor Fayose incites hunters in Ekiti to fight herdsmen

Fayose bans Fulani herdsmen from Ekiti state

“President Buhari defended Fulani herdsmen in 2000” | Fayose opens a can of worms on herdsmen attack

Fulani herdsmen ‘attack Benue community, 5 dead’

“We are not planning on attacking Enugu” – Fulani community

The IGP has sent detectives to Enugu over ‘Fulani herdsmen’ killings

Nigeria will soon start importing semen (yes, semen) from Europe

Fayose says he will not allow any grazing reserve in his state

Fulani herdsmen attack Taraba communities, 13 dead, several injured

Enugu police commissioner removed over herdsmen attack

Nigerians in London protest Fulani herdsmen attacks (PHOTOS)

Reuben Abati: Cattle herdsmen as the new Boko Haram

Confusion: Army, police disagree on whereabouts of arrested Fulani herdsmen

Opinion: Why Nigerians must boycott beef now

Minister of Interior blames social media for Fulani herdsmen attacks

Fulani herdsmen attack Enugu community; 2 siblings killed, 19 missing

Catholic Priest abducted by Fulani herdsmen

‘Yorubas are too sensitive’ – 7 things we learned from Gani Adams’ new interview

Drama as cows block expressway in Ondo, cause accident (See Photos)

Fulani herdsmen kill 20, set scores of houses ablaze in Nasarawa

Opinion: I doubt if Fulani herdsmen are responsible for these attacks

Benue crisis: Fulani herdsmen kill 22 people in Suswam’s village

Gruesome: How herdsmen raped bride and killed 21 people in Ogun

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