February 11, 2021

Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has advised the federal government to ban foreign herders from coming to Nigeria as a means to taming the rising spate of insecurity in the country.

He also said it was wrong to tag all herders as criminals, saying many Fulani are doing legitimate business of rearing animals and needed the support of various stakeholders to do it better.

Ganduje also faulted the recent comment by Governor Nasir El-Rufai who said the North-West of Kaduna State governors were working at cross purposes, hence the escalation of security challenges in the region.

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But an increasingly assertive Xi pushed back, according to Chinese state media, telling Biden that issues such as Beijing’s crushing of opposition in Hong Kong and saber-rattling on Taiwan are China’s ‘internal affairs.‘

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The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Muhammed, has lamented that it is a pity that some states in the Southwest region of Nigeria don’t want to accommodate other tribes especially the Fulani.

He was reacting to the recent development in some states in the Southwest where herdsmen were given quit notices and asked to leave.

The governor was speaking as a Special Guest of Honour during the launch of the inaugural edition of the Bauchi Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ’s magazine titled “Correspondents’ Watch” on Thursday.

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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has tackled his Kaduna Counterpart, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, over his knowledge of security matters saying that he is either ‘misunderstood’ or ‘ill-informed’ on the insecurity affecting the north.

In an interview with BBC, El-Rufai had said the lack of synergy on how to tackle banditry is fuelling it.

But speaking on Radio France International on Thursday, Ganduje said he once spoke with El-Rufai and the governor of Bauchi State on how to tackle insecurity.

He said he initiated the conversation based on the advice of security agents on how Falgore forest in Kano could be …

Just a few days after a widely publicized speech on the state of insecurity in the nation, Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has once again called on President Muhammadu Buhari to avert the country’s drift to anarchy and disintegration by acting swiftly to curb the menace of Fulani herdsmen.

In a letter to President Buhari, Ortom noted that security challenges have assumed new dimensions where the now emboldened assailants and armed herdsmen daringly enforce their will on legitimate owners and occupants of ancestral lands.

He noted that the challenges were caused by actions and inactions of the Federal Government, which …

Governor Yahaya Bello has appointed Mrs. Hannah Onyinoyi Odiyo as the new Head of Civil Service of Kogi State.

Mrs Odiyo takes over from Mrs Deborah Ogunmola.

Until her appointment, Mrs. Odiyo was the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Kogi State.

Her appointment was confirmed in a statement issued to journalists in Lokoja on Thursday, by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Arike Ayoade.

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The statement reads ‘His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has approved the appointment of Mrs.