The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has distanced itself from a statement issued by Garus Gololo, chairman of the association in Benue state, wherein he asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to resign or be forcefully removed. In a statement on Wednesday, Othman Ngelzarma, national secretary of MACBAN, said Gololo spoke in his personal […]
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has said his state does not have land for cattle colonies. The governor said this on Monday while speaking with journalists after he and Benue leaders held a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa. The establishment cattle colonies has been seen as an option to prevent […]
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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) says it lost one thousand Fulani and “over two million cows” Fulani to attacks orchestrated by the Benue state government. Fulani herdsmen are alleged to have killed over 100 persons in recent attacks carried out in Benue and Taraba states. Reacting to the development on Sunday, the group […]
Continue ReadingThe National Butchers Association of Nigeria (NBAN) in Niger on Thursday said that its members had reduced the number of cattle slaughtered from 200 to 60 per day.Alhaji Sale Mohammed, NBAN chairman in the state who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, said that this was due to increase in running […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Cattle rustlers in Kaduna State have once again been bettered by security operatives. Some cows, numbering 1,232, were recovered in the combined operations by the military, police, the State Security Service (SSS), and some other agencies in the Kamuku and Kuyanbana forest ranges that straddle the borders of Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Niger, […]
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