herdsmen in ekiti

A report reaching The Punch said some herdsmen in the early hours of today stormed Orin Ekiti and killed a pregnant woman. The eight months pregnant woman is said to be a Tiv woman from Benue State. It was learnt that the assailants also injured several other people in the attack. READ MORE...

Bauchi state governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar has condemned the statement credited to the Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, asking Fulani herdsmen to leave Ekiti state in the wake of incessant clashes between farmers and cattle herders suspected to be Fulani. Abubakar said Fayose’s...

The decision of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State to ban open grazing by Fulani herders in Ekiti is condemnable and unbecoming of a governor, a group has said. Jamu Nati Fulbe Association, a socio-cultural group of Fulani herders in the South-west, said herders are Nigerians who have...

A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere has expressed support for what it described as a courageous move by the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose to ban cattle grazing in the state. The governor yesterday placed a ban on cattle rearing in the state when he visited Oke-Ako in Ikole...

Former President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association (MACBAN), Alhaji Bello Ardo, has said that the Fulani have a right to move freely and conduct their business across the nation’s landscape. Ardo said this in challenge of Ekiti state Governor Ayodele Fayose’s order...

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose yesterday declared a war on herdsmen, who are unleashing terror in communities in the state. The governor urged the people to rise against the herdsmen and kill them to defend their lives, families and farmlands. The governor gave this charge when he visited...