Many people don’t know this, but insecurity has been ravaging Zamfara for almost a decade now.
Most analysts wrongly claim its all because of Gold fields Though it’s a contributing element, it actually constitute a small portion of the multi-varied factors responsible for it. Farmers-Herdsmen clash is as old as Cain & Abel, but they have their dispute resolution techniques which have worked since beginning of the Human Race.
However, Injustice, abuse of power by constituted authority, decay of Local institution, neglect of rural communities, & proliferation of arms into sub-Saharan Africa after the Fall of Gaddafi all contributed in aggravating the conflicts. The foremost major attack was in 2014 in Yar Galadima ward of Dansadau Emirate. Almost 200 people were brutally slaughtered.
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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, asked those who are beneficiaries of government patronage to always engage in corporate social responsibility, instead of seeking to favour individuals with gifts. Buhari spoke in Daura, Katsina State, Friday, when he visited the Emir of Daura, Dr Umar Faruk Umar.
2. The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has asked governors to sign the death warrant of 3,008 inmates on death row at custodial facilities across the country. Aregbesola said this in Osogbo, Osun State, while inaugurating the newly constructed headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS in the State, on Friday.
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Sola Ebiseni
Nigerians are so divided under the Buhari administration that several strange things are happening. Significantly, it has succeeded in shattering and scattering the myth of one north which Sir Ahmadu Bello and the founding members of his school of thought, both in politics and the academia, have managed with such dexterity that the average southerner would pass off all northerners with a generic name of Hausa. The pandering to Fulani supremacy by the Buhari Government have lifted the veil from the artificial tribe called Hausa/Fulani created to give the Hausa elite a false equal sense of belonging only in the governance of Nigeria