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We Must Recover Grazing Routes – FG Insists

June 20, 2021 1:36 am

Federal Government has vowed not to back down on its plan to retrace and recover grazing routes across the country, insisting that it was meant to address the clashes between herdsmen and farmers.

Africa Dialy News, New York gathered that stock routes, popularly called grazing routes, are currently being retraced and recovered by the Federal Government for herders to graze their cattle which is contrary to the expectations of many Nigerians particularly in South that the grazing routes retracing and eventual recovery might not see the light of day.

Officials of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development who …

Fears Over FG’s Fresh Move To Reactivate Grazing Routes

December 10, 2019 2:25 am

Last week, the issue of cattle herders and the controversy over the modus operandi of their business, resonated in Nigeria once again. It has literally become a recurring decimal in the country. This time, the government wants to reactivate the grazing routes and convert them to ranches. The development was made known by the Federal Government, through the Executive Secretary, National Commission for Nomadic Education, Prof Bashir Usman, who announced government’s readiness to remodel its grazing reserves into ranches in 17 states of the federation.
Critical observers are tempted to believe that following the refusal of some state governors …

FG Begins Remodelling Of Grazing Reserves Into Ranches

December 3, 2019 12:13 pm

The Federal Government has begun remodelling of grazing reserves into ranches in seven states as part of efforts to transform and modernise the country’s livestock industry.

The Executive Secretary, National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE), Prof. Bashir Usman, made this known on Tuesday in Zaria at the opening of a three-day capacity building workshop on the remodelling of grazing reserves into ranches.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training was organised by NCNE for 120 nomadic education extension agents and other officers of the commission.

Usman, who was represented by the Director, Social Mobilisation and Women

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Oyo: Fulani Herdsmen Vow To Go To Court Over Grazing Bill

October 23, 2019 12:53 pm

The Oyo State Open Rearing and Grazing Regulation Bill 2019, which has already passed the second reading at the state House of Assembly, may run into a hitch as Fulani herdsmen in the state have resolved to approach the court to stop it.

The bill, which was jointly sponsored by the Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin, and the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Abiodun Fadeyi, had two weeks ago witnessed a public hearing where stakeholders including farmers, groups and the Fulani community bared their minds on how to make it workable.

The National Chairman of Gan Allah Fulani Development Association …