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It is no longer news that Ndigbo and their state governments have repeatedly and vehemently, rejected the establishment of RUGA Settlement in any part of Igboland...... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2Aq7Xan Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has told the Federal Government to jettison the planned RUGA scheme, saying the association was opposed to the implementation of the programme anywhere in Nigeria.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2PxT54f Get More Nigeria Metro News

Kano State Government says it is planning to convert five forests to grazing reserves for herdsmen in the state.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/31TUKSZ Get More Nigeria Political News

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB has accused Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi of ordering the arrest and detention of Ezza people to dispossess them of their land for the suspended Rural Pastoral Grazing Areas (RUGA) of the Federal Government. In a statement Saturday signed by its...

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, yesterday told the oppositionPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) to suspend its Board of Trustees (BoT)Chairman, Senator Walil Jubril for supporting suspended RUGA settlement for herdsmen proposed by the federal government. Walil had openly declared that the...

Nnewi—Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, alleged that Igbo governors have secretly donated lands in their respective states for RUGA, saying that IPOB will never allow that. The group also alleged that all the antagonistic activities of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State are …...

Akwa Ibom State government has condemned the comments by the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang on RUGA settlement, saying that it was based on greed and a desperate quest to cling to power despite already spending 20 years in public … Read more...

Nnewi—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, alleged that since the rejection of RUGA, and National Life Stock Programmes, NLSP, by the people of South-East, the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari has been supporting unprovoked attacks...

Abia—Traditional rulers from the Olokoro clan in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State have faulted the report that land has been acquired in the area for Ruga settlement. Chairman, Umuahia South Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Godfrey Onwuka, explained that there … Read more...

From what we know of the cattle colony scheme, based on a presentation by the then Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Audu Ogbe, the cattle colony scheme is not a scheme for the settlement of Fulani herdsmen. Here is what he said in his presentation..... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Saturday said he was not happy with the manner in which Fulani are treated in the country. He also said the Federal Government’s Ruga programme shouldn’t be implemented.... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2GwDU4e Get More Nigeria Metro News

The World Igbo Congress (WIC) has invited all governors, senators, members of House of Representatives and other stakeholders from Southeast to its 2019 convention to discuss the Ruga debacle and other security threats facing the region. In a release signed by … Read more via The Guardian...

Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Government to abolish the movement of Fulani herdsmen from the.... Read more via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/30IwYsr Get More Nigeria Political News

Leaders of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) have called for the collaboration of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in uniting the.... Read more via Legit Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2Y4ocYh Get More Nigeria Political News

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has called on the federal government to outrightly cancel the planned construction of the controversial Ruga settlements for herdsmen across the ..... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/32sVorL Get More Nigeria Political News

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, said it is not interested in either the gains or the losses associated with RUGA settlement being planned by the.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2O1NbHF Get More Nigeria Political News

Beyond merely denouncing the controversial RUGA herdsmen settlement proposed by the Federal Government, some communities in the southeast have begun closing land sale gaps that may let.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/32zIc4r Get More Nigeria Political News

Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has said that the state would implement the Ruga settlement initiative to resettle herders and boost economic activities.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2LSeiCo Get More Nigeria Metro News

Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration not to impose the Ruga settlements programme on the states.... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2GbASCs Get More Nigeria Political News

Oby Ezekwesili has called on President Buhari to invite all parts of Nigeria to an important conversation. Oby Ezekwesili has described the backlash against President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspended Ruga settlement.... Read more via Pulse Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2NSmPrz Get More Nigeria...