Economy

Food Blockade: Food Prices Fall In North, Farmers, Traders Run At Loss

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Farmers and traders in Kano are lamenting as farm produce, which can’t be sent to the South due to the ongoing strike by sellers of cows and foodstuff, are now being sold at the North at ridiculously low prices. In a video shared by Daily Trust, the farmers and marketers at the Gun-Dutse Continue Reading

Security

‘We have put measures in place to secure farmers’ lives’ – Oyo Govt.

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Farmers in Oyo State have been assured that all measures are in place to secure their lives as the State government would not allow individuals masquerading as herders to halt the pace of development in the agricultural sector of the State economy. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon Ojemuyiwa Ojekunle, gave this assurance […]Continue Reading

Agriculture

Farmers Bemoan Destruction Of Farm Produce By Hoodlums

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Over One hundred farmers from Ijaye Farm Settlement in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State this morning embarked on a peaceful protest to the State Secretariat, Agodi Ibadan. The farmers who carried placards with different inscriptions were protesting against the destruction of their farmlands by herdsmen in the council area. Speaking on behalf of […]Continue Reading

Security

Farmers/ Herders Clash: Ogun Govt. Delivers First Batch of Palliatives

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Ogun state government has delivered first batch of palliatives to the victims of the recent conflict between herders and farmers in Ogun West Senatorial District of the state. The Chairman, Subcommittee on palliatives who is also the Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mr. Olaolu Olabimtan told newsmen that the Committee was in Ogun West Senatorial district to Continue Reading

Economy

Shasa Crisis: Ganduge Gives Palliative to Kano Indigenes

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Kano state government has expended about twenty million naira as pallatives for 185 kano indigenes who are victims of the recent clashes which occurred between an indigene and a settler at the popular Shasha market in Ibadan,Oyo state capital. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje while doling out #100 thousand naira each to the affected persons at Akinyele […]Continue Reading

Security

Farmers-Herders Clash: 4 Northern Govs. Visit Ogun

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Four Northern Governors and Two southern Governors have converged on Abeokuta at a stakeholders parley to find lasting solution to Farmers and Herders clashes in the South West Region. Speaking at the Forum, the Northern Governors called on the federal government to encourage and support the herders in practicing modern system of animal husbandry.In their […]Continue Reading

Security

Gov. Abiodun Orders Investigation Into Farmers/Herdsmen Clash in Ogun

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Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has set up a Special Security Task Force towards maintaining peace in all areas of the state prone to herders/farmers conflict. Governor  Abiodun who announced this in a statement in Abeokuta, also ordered the security agencies in the state to investigate the recent clash between herdsmen and farmers in […]Continue Reading

Security

Ogun Police Condemn Attacks on Fulani Communities

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Ogun State police command has cautioned against attacks on herdsmen’s’ settlements in Yewa part of the State and other areas.According to a statement issued by the command spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi in Abeokuta, the police authority noted with sadness the attacks on settlements inhabited by Nigerian herdsmens of Fulani extraction in which some of them […]Continue Reading

Security

Farmers Herders Clash: Stakeholders Move for Peace

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Farmers and herders ìn Eggua have agreed to constitute a conflict resolution committee involving representatives of all the communities in the area to prevent invasion by unknown herders that annually commit atrocities. The two parties made the resolution after a meeting with the state farmer’s herder’s conflicts resolution committee held at Tata in Yewa Both […]Continue Reading

Security

Oyo Police Commissioner Tasks Herders, Farmers on Harmony

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Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Nwachukwu Enwonwu has called for collaboration among stakeholders in Ibarapa/Oke Ogun axis over incessant crisis between herders and farmers. Mr Enwonwu stated this at the familiarization tour/threat assessment of the entire areas. He said the tour was to assess the alleged invasion of armed bandits and the incessant […]Continue Reading

Agriculture

Implications of Low Rainfall in the Last Few Months

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Farmers in Osun State have been urged not to be discouraged by the level of rainfall this year but prepare more land for the next planting season. This was the submission of some stakeholders who spoke with our correspondent, Temitope Mosadomi in Osogbo, on the implications of lack of rain in the last few months.  […]Continue Reading