Tag: Grazing Reserves

“Create grazing reserves to resolve farmers/herders clashes”, Fulani leaders beg Govs.

Aminu Imam
Fulani leaders beg Govs

National President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-cultural Association, Dr. Bello Bodejo and Secretary, Engr. Saleh Alhassan have appealed to Governors to create grazing reserves for herders in their respective States. The duo said this is one of the ways government can curb conflicts between farmers and herders across the nation. Speaking in Iseyin, during the South-West Peace Summit and Inauguration of Oyo executives of the association, the Fulani leaders warned that farmers and herders clashes, if unresolved, pose great threat not just to the economy but also to national…

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FGs demand for grazing lands will worsen insecurity – Midde-Belt group

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A group, Middle Belt Patriots, has urged state governors not to succumb to pressure from the Federal Government to cede lands to herders for grazing. The group said yielding to such demands would worsen the security situation in the middle belt and other parts of the country. Recall that President Bola Tinubu, while speaking at the flag-off of the agricultural mechanisation revolution for food security in Minna, Niger State capital on Monday, had called on State governors to give parts of the land in their States for ranching purposes. In…

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‘Ban on open-grazing is counter-productive’ – Baba-Ahmed insists

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Spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has expressed that the ban on open grazing by some State governments is counterproductive and damaging to the nations spirit of coexistence. Baba-Ahmed made the comment during an interview on a television programme yesterday. His words: We are not against open grazing; we are in support of ranching, domesticating cattle, modern ways on how both the cattle and the Fulani man can rest from this worrisome way of which it can be done. What we are insisting on is that this…

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Buhari approves review of grazing reserves in 25 States

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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday gave a go-ahead for the immediate review of Grazing Reserves in 25 out of the 36 States of the federation. This, he said, was in line with the recommendations of a committee earlier in the year to review with dispatch, 368 grazing sites, across 25 States in the country, to determine the levels of encroachment. According to a press statement issued by the Presidents spokesman, Garba Shehu, President Buharis directive followed his approval of the recommendations of a committee chaired by his Chief of Staff, Prof.…

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