Media organizations and practitioners across the country have been urged to take ownership of the Nigerian brand by being strategic while playing their
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A former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has described the extreme monetisation of politics and political processes by some political actors in the country as the biggest threat to the nation’s democracy.
By Segun Awofadeji
Following controversy trailing his recent comments that carrying of AK-47 by Fulani herders was a last option for self defence, Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has clarified his comments, saying he was misunderstood.
His Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Comrade Mukhtar Gidado, in a statement Sunday night said, “to the extent that not every herdsman is a criminal, the reference to AK47 was simply to put in perspective, the predicament and desperation of those law-abiding Fulani herdsmen who, while carrying out their legitimate cow-rearing business, have become serial victims of cattle rustling, banditry, kidnapping and assassination”.