Tag: Southern Nigeria

Onion marketers stop supply to entire South from today – Association

Aminu Imam

The Association of Onions Producers, Processors and Marketers of Nigeria, (OPMAN), has threatened to stop the supplying of onions to the entire southern part of Nigeria unless certain conditions laid down by the association are met. The association disclosed that about N4.5 billion worth of onions and other properties were destroyed by suspected hoodlums across the Southern States in the last few months, in addition to the loss of lives of members of the association without any compensation. The National President of the association, Alhaji Aliyu Isa, disclosed this while…

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“We protected you during civil war, now we’re subjected to maltreatment in your region”, Ganduje accuses Southern Govs

Aminu Imam

Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has condemned how the Southern Governors banned open grazing in their region, stressed that the North protected them during the civil war, but they are paying back by maltreating the herdsmen in the South. Ganduje stated this while receiving the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, during the Sallah traditional ‘Hawan Nasarawa‘ at the Government House, in Kano State. He further explained that open grazing is an outdated way of rearing cattle which has bread poverty and that it is no longer accepted, but that…

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