What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges.
Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-running tensions in the country’s northern and central regions. A surge in bloodshed in 2018 prompted Nigeria’s federal government to formulate a far-reaching set of reforms for the livestock sector.
Why does it matter? The new Plan represents Nigeria’s most comprehensive strategy yet to encourage pastoralists to switch to ranching and other sedentary livestock production systems. Modernising the livestock sector is key to resolving the herder-farmer conflict, which threatens Nigeria’s
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The gang kidnapped Nwachukwu from his house and contacted his wife to pay N5m ransom.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 24, 2021
A suspected member of a kidnap gang, Bello Mohammed, has been held for the abduction and killing of a businessman, one Osondu Nwachukwu, who operated a sachet water factory in Lafia Nasarawa State.
Mohammed and four other members at large, identified simply as Maikano, Dogo, Hassan and Jubril, reportedly carried out the act.
He was arrested on March 11 by operatives of the Inspector-General of the Police Intelligence Response Team after the case was reported to the police.
Punch reports that the gang kidnapped Nwachukwu from his house and contacted his wife to pay N5m ransom. The wife reportedly appealed to them to collect N40,000 and was told to drop the money at a designated point in the bush.
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The Nigerian government on Monday declared 22 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 13 states as those recording high cases of COVID-19 infection.
Nigeria has a total of 774 local governments in its 36 states.
The National Incident Manager (NIM) of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Mukhtar Muhammad, while speaking at a PTF briefing, said the 22 LGAs were identified after critical analysis of the pandemic.
He said the LGAs, mostly in the state capitals, contributed over 95 per cent of new cases recorded in the last six weeks.
Ngeria has recorded an average of over 1,000 daily cases in the last six weeks as the country experiences the second wave of the virus.
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