At least seven people have been killed in a fresh attack on Agbo Vengav Udam community in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected armed herders. Residents told PUNCH Online that the assailants stormed the village around 7 pm on Thursday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing seven on the spot and abducting three others. A local source, …

The National Youth Service Corps has withdrawn corps members serving in Mbaa, a volatile community in the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, due to escalating security threats. This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by the Assistant Director of Information and Public Relations of the NYSC in the state, Yahuza Adamu. Adamu explained that the decision was …

As part of efforts to encourage farmers and promote food production, the Ekiti State Government has announced the prohibition of underage herding and night grazing throughout the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, Brig Gen Ebenezer Ogundana (retd), warned herders operating in the state not to make a mess of the government’s huge investment in agriculture, …

The 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Tuesday, expressed his readiness to extend the hand of help and support to the Federal government to find a lasting solution to the incessant herders/farmers clashes recorded across the country. The Monarch who made this known while receiving the Leadership of a Fulani group, Tapital Pulaku Njode Jam Nigeria, who extended …

Amidst the recent herders/farmers clashes across Ondo State, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa,  on Tuesday, directed the state security outfit, Amotekun, to establish forest rangers to end killings, abductions and other crimes in communities. Many farmers were abducted, and murdered in some communities in the state last month. Consequently, farmers have abandoned their farmlands while women in some affected communities have protested …

Three people have been killed and eight others injured in a clash between farmers and herders in Kodomun, a community in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State. In the community long known for similar confrontations, the fresh incident is said to have been triggered by the alleged killing of a youth in Kodomun by suspected herders. Emotion was said …

Amidst the challenges of food security, the Kogi East Critical Stakeholders (KECS) has said herders have taken over the administration of fishing and agrarian communities and were levying taxes on the people of Kogi State while sacking them from their farmlands and fishing grounds. The group while briefing journalists in Abuja yesterday said the herders were equally expanding their control …

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, said it would commence the Pulaku Initiative, a large-scale resettlement programme to address the root causes of incessant clashes between farmers and herders in various flashpoints nationwide. Pulaku also called the “Fulani code of conduct”, is an integral cultural and ethical value system specific to the Fulani. The farmer-herder crisis, more pronounced in the North-Central, …

The Nigerian Army and Police Force have been urged to immediately launch an inquiry into the alleged extortion of farmers and herders in some conflict-ridden communities of Benue, Taraba and Kaduna States. A recent investigative report by Daily Trust had indicted soldiers and police officers deployed in Adaka and Wadata communities of Benue, Jalingo town in Taraba and Zangon Kataf …

The Benue State Police Command on Wednesday paraded nine suspected rustlers, who conspired with criminal herders to rustle cows and shared the proceeds. The state command spokesperson, Deputy Superintendent Catherine Anene, while parading the suspects, said they specialised in rustling of cattle that fuelled killings in the state. Anene said: “In recent times, the investigation into herder/farmer conflict in most …