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Don’t Leave Ondo Forests – Northern Elders To Fulani

January 21, 2021 7:10 am

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has told herders in Ondo State to remain in their locations and reject any move to label them as criminals.

Spokesman of the forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, in a statement on Wednesday, asked the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to stop the ultimatum given to herders to vacate forest reserves in the State.

Baba-Ahmed noted that the governor’s order was provocative and unhelpful.

Recall that on Monday, governor Akeredolu gave herders a seven-day ultimatum to leave the forests, citing the rising insecurity in the State.

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Afenifere, NEF Differ On Northerners’ Protection In South

October 28, 2020 12:37 am

THE Northern Elders Forum on Tuesday raised the alarm over what it described as a deliberate targeting of northerners in southern part of Nigeria.

The forum said there had been ‘reported killings, destruction and stealing of property belonging to northerners and other assaults, which had been going on for days’.

The organisation, therefore, called on northerners in the South to ‘compile a verifiable inventory of lives and property lost, and approach relevant authorities for appropriate restitution.’

But the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere warned the northern elders to be careful about statements that …

We Are Tired Of Excuses, North Now At Mercy Of Bandits – Northern Elders

June 15, 2020 5:18 am

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has raised the alarm over the rising insecurity of communities and properties in the North.

NEF noted that the recent escalation of attacks by bandits, rustlers and insurgents had left the only conclusion that the people of the North were now completely at the mercy of armed gangs who roam towns and villages at will, wrecking havoc.

The convener, Northern Elders Forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi, observed, “It would appear that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and governors have lost control over the imperatives of protecting people of the North, a constitutional duty that they …