LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWRANGERS)-Security and defence intelligence expert, Group Captain Felix Iheanacho (retd.) has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government on the dangers of the proposed Ruga settlement for herdsmen. “We have been seeing reactions. Most of the communities and areas where these settlements are proposed are already expressing resentment about the plan. “I,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president on Thursday denied that government proposals to share out land to end a wave of violence over grazing rights amounted to “colonization” of fertile areas by his own ethnic group. Clashes between semi-nomadic herders, mostly of the Fulani ethnic group, and settled farmers in central states have killed around 100…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday called on all Fulani herdsmen resident in other parts of the country, especially Benue and Taraba States, to relocate to Kano since the state has vast grazing land to accommodate them and their cattle. Ganduje, who stated this while inspecting the vaccination of over…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The National President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Socio-cultural Association, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo (Lamido Fulbe), has warned that nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019, while adding that the Fulanis are being stigmatized. .He spoke to WILLY EYA of SunNews. On how he feels about how his tribe, the Fulani, is associated…