Eko Hot Blog reports that Nigerians on Twitter are reacting as video of the Chief of Army Staff Major General Taoreed Lagbaja Motivating Troops in Plateau State surfaces online. The COAS was in Plateau State yesterday to formally flagged off the ongoing operations to quell the unfortunate herders/ farmers clashes in Mangu Local Government Area … Read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again written a letter to President Buhari over the farmers-herders crisis. EKO HOT BLOG reports that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has highlighted how the Federal Government (FG) paved the way for the crisis between farmers and herders in the country. Obasanjo made this known in a letter addressed to President … Read more
In February, the state conducted a two-week registration of farmers and herders, but not all those involved seized the opportunity The Ekiti State government has given farmers and herders another two-week window to register with the state government or be ready to leave the state. The two-week grace begins on Sunday, March 22. The Commissioner … Read more
The APC leader stressed the need for all to move in unison but decisively to end the spiral of death and destruction occasioned by the crisis The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has proferred solutions to end the lingering crisis between herders and farmers in the country. Tinubu, in a … Read more
The incident is one of the latest in a trend of farmers-herders clash in some parts of the country The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has condemned the killing of two farmers after clashing with herders in Isaba, Ikole Local Government Area of the state. Fayemi, who spoke through Akin Omole, his Commissioner for Information … Read more
Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has warned that the raging crisis between herders and local communities across the country could degenerate into a full blown civil war if not properly addressed. There’s been tension in the country for weeks on end over the allegations that herders are behind the wanton killings and abductions in the south-west. … Read more