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Two persons suspected to be involved in the attack by herdsmen on Oke Ako village in Ekiti State on May 20, have been remanded in prison by an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court. Police Public Relations Officer, Alberto Adeyemi, who made this known on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, said the suspects, Usman Salihu, 50, and Abubakar Auta, 52, were earlier ...
June, 2016
May, 2016
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26 May
Herdsmen recorded video of Enugu massacre !
The Nigeria Police Force says it has arrested five suspects for their role in the Enugu attack by suspected herdsmen which led to the death of about 20 persons in the Ukpabi Nimbo area of the state on April 25, 2016. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, said this in a statement on Wednesday. Kolawole revealed that the police ...
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17 May
Two fulan herdsmen jailed 20-years for unlawful possession of Gun
Two Fulani herdsmen, Hassan Abidu and Yakubu Salem, have been sentenced to 20 years with hard labour by a Delta State High Court siting in Asaba for unlawful possession of firearms. The convicts suspected to be members of a group of armed nomads terrorizing indigenes of Ibusa and its environs especially farmers, were pronounced guilty on a two count charge ...
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10 May
I won’t Allow Fulani Herdsmen To Operate In Ekiti – Fayose
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the state government will not release any portion of the state’s land to serve as grazing reserves for Fulani herdsmen. Fayose said he only supports a situation whereby state governments establish ranches for herdsmen in their local communities. He said moving large herds of cattle from one point to the other is ...
April, 2016
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30 April
Enugu Gov Exposes Security Lapses As Bane Of Herdsmen Invation
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Friday reviewed last Monday’s invasion of Ukpabi Nimbo Community in Uzouwani Local Government Area of the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, where scores of people were killed and property worth millions of naira destroyed. Ugwuanyi disclosed that “only the security agencies can answer why” the attacks took place as they had given him ...
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28 April
Fulani herdsmen: Now or never
Abimbola Adelakun In January, President Barack Obama addressed a press conference on the epidemic of gun violence in America. The figures are as staggering as they are sobering. In 2015 alone, an estimated 13,000 people were killed as a result of this scourge. Obama, within the limits of the constitution, has made several moves to check the spate of violence ...
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26 April
Enugu Gov Weeps Uncontrollably On Seeing Victims Of Herdsmen Attack
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State wept uncontrollably today during his visit to Uzo-Uwani local government area of the state – The governor visited to pay condolence to the bereaved people who were attacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen .During the visit he declared a two-day fasting in Enugu state to commit the situation into God’s hands It was also tears ...
November, 2015
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2 November
Uncovered: MTN Huge Fine, Linked To Role In Olu Falae’s Kidnap!
Accordingto reports coming out from South Africa, the record fine levied on MTN Nigeria is linked to the role that unregistered MTN sim cards played in the kidnap of former minister of finance Olu Falae. The source, South Africa’s City Press, reports that Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said the phone lines that the kidnappers used to conduct ransom negotiations belonged ...
October, 2015
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8 October
Again, Fulani Herdsmen Attack Falae!
CHIEF Olu Falae’s farm in Akure has again been attacked by Fulani herdsmen, barely two weeks after the herdsmen kidnapped the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and kept him for four days. The herdsmen reportedly moved in their cattle into the farm situated at Ilado on the outskirts of the state capital at about 2am on Monday ...
September, 2015
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29 September
Falae Exposes Police IG As Chronic Liar… “Ransom Paid, Police Didn’t Rescue Me”
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has admitted that “certain amount of money” was paid as ransom before he was set free on Thursday by his abductors. Falae’s statement contradicted the claim by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, that no ransom was paid before the elder statesman was rescued. Falae, who was ...
