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01/27/2021
Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Fulani militants have been conducting attacks and causing mass devastation throughout the Middle Belt of Nigeria for many years. These attacks have increased over the past several years though. Increasing violence in Kaduna, Plateau and Benue States has caused millions of people to be displaced. More recently, these attacks have begun to spread further south in the country.
Oyo State, in Nigeria’s Southeast, is several hundred miles south of the Middle Belt states where attack have become super common. Despite this, reports are being made that militants have invaded Oyo as well. The Convener of the Igangan Development Advocates, Mr Oladiran Oladokun, spoke to the Punch Nigeria about the attacks in Oyo State. He says that the militants have displaced many farmers from their land, as well as “o
One of the farmers at the Lamingo area of Jos, Marcel Ndubuisi, said he spent most part of last year battling with the pests on his farm.
He also said the activities of middlemen and the high cost of fertilizer was making the business very challenging.
He urged government to intervene and support them in tackling their challenges.
The woman leader in the tomato market at the Cele-bridge area of Jos, Ruth Izang, said the pest invasion had seriously affected the quality of tomatoes harvested.
She said whenever the pest attacked the crop it became easily perishable.
She added that the farmers always struggle to purchase the chemicals to control the pests for their farms.
Even though women make up a majority of the workforce in many artisanal mines, they are mostly relegated to the menial and lower-paid sectors of mining.
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Rev James Musa is the husband of Mrs Abigail Musa, who was delivered of a set of quintuplets after 23 years of marriage, and has been stranded at the Fertile Ground Hospital, Zaramaganda Road, Jos, Plateau State, over N3.7m accumulated hospital bill. The 47-year-old full-time pastor at Church of Christ in Nations from the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State tells ALEXANDER OKERE how the babies’ arrival has affected his family
When did you meet your wife?
We are from the same village and I met her there. We got married in November, 1995, and for 23 years, we never had a child.