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Following a reported attacked by some suspected Fulani herdsmen in Ogun state, 66-year-old woman, Alhaja Muslimot Morenikeji Salami, has succumbed to death. According to reports, Salami was attacked by the ...

The Executive Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has denied reports of the Edo state government ceding lands to herdsmen for grazing. The denial was made known in a statement released ...

Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, 2019 presidential candidate and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has clearly told President Muhammadu Buhari that there are grave consequences of his ...

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen on Thursday, reportedly killed no fewer than seven persons, four of whom were farmers, returning from their farms in Edo State. It was gathered that ...

The Sarkin Fulani of Abeokuta, Muhammad Kabir Labar on Tuesday said 23 herdsmen were killed and about 20 houses burnt in the recent crisis in Ogun State. Speaking at a ...

Four persons were killed by suspected herdsmen that invaded Rikwechongu and Zirshe villages of Irigwe Chiefdom, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State in the early hours of Sunday. It ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered immediate deployment of four units of riot policemen to address the violence in parts of Oyo State. The intervention and stabilization forces ...

The Ondo State Security Network Agency (popularly known as Operation Amotekun) has reacted to reports that  a farmer and a vigilante operative were murdered by herdsmen at Jugbere Farm Settlement ...

Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity on Monday stated that many herdsmen are undergoing trials in several parts of the country for alleged killings ...

Enyinnaya Abaribe, Senate minority leader, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to publicly declare that he does not support violent herdsmen. Abaribe speaking on Channels Tv on Monday morning, said the ...

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The Divisional Police Officer at Igbon Police Station in the Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State identified as Ayodeji Adepoju has allegedly shot and injured an operative of the ...

The Northern Christian Youth Forum (NCYF) has frowned at some section of Nigerians linking President Muhammadu Buhari with killer herdsmen in parts of the country. The group said those behind ...

Bala Mohammed, Bauchi State Governor, has proffered reasons herders must carry weapons. According to the governor, herdsmen need to protect themselves. The governor ascribed the practice to the failure of ...

Suspected herdsmen, on Thursday, hacked two people to death at Owode-Ketu, in Yewa North area of the state. According to report, the herders allegedly ambushed them, along the Owode Ketu-Ijoun ...

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned the Nigerian Police Force to always be truthful in its engagements with the people, declaring that the police lied in claiming that herdsmen ...

The residence of Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, located inside Jegba republic between the outskirt of Kemta Housing Estate and Ilugun – Itoko community in Abeokuta Ogun State, was neither ...

Popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has debunked trending reports of civil war attributed to him. Igboho said he never called for civil war in any interview he ...

Seven transport union workers have been kidnapped at Iwaraja junction along Ilesha/Akure expressway in Atakunmosa West Local Government Area, Osun. WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that the seven transport workers were travelling ...

Operatives of Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps have intercepted a truck loaded with about 80 men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen at Iwo Road area of Ibadan, ...