• We’ve already passed anti-open grazing laws, say governors • Grazing reserves will curb farmland encroachment, FG insists Again, Southern state governors, including those of Delta, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa; Benue, Samuel Ortom; Rivers, Nyesom Wike; and Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, tackled President Muhammadu Buhari over the order to review with.The Advocate
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One of the biggest problems Nigeria is facing is the issue of insecurity. Farmers-herders clashe is perhaps one of the key security challenges that have escalated and transformed into many aspects of crimes which are being perpetrated in the form of cattle rustling, armed banditry and kidnapping, thereby heightening the tension in the country.
Farmers-herders conflict in Nigeria is mainly associated with quarrels over land resources, mostly between Muslim Fulani herders and predominant Christian farmers across Nigeria. However, this tussle is more pronounced in the Middle Belt/North Central states of Plateau, Nasarawa and Benue.
A 2019 report by Foreign Affairs put the death toll as a result of these violent clashes at 10,000 within the span of two years, while thousands of individuals were displaced. Alas, these violent economic struggles have been politicised and then reduced to ethnic and northern Nigeria problem. But today, the south, specifically the South East and the
FG replaces controversial RUGA with new scheme, begins camps in six states The Punch
Published 24 July 2021
Two years after the suspension of the controversial Rural Grazing Area scheme in July 2019, the Federal Government has introduced a replacement scheme called the Livestock Intervention Programme to address the lingering farmer-herder crisis across the country.
This comes amid the Federal Government’s intensified efforts to revive colonial-era grazing routes in many states across the country as per the directive by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).
According to documents from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development sighted by one of our correspondents, the LIP scheme will see the Federal Government establishing eight large herders’ settlements in each of the six pilot states, namely Adamawa, Kwara, Niger, Bauchi, Kaduna and Gombe.
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