LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has suspended the planned Ruga Programme. An aide in the presidency confirmed this to Channels Television. The source, however, says the Governors Forum will be speaking on the matter soon. Meanwhile, the National Executive Committee (NEC) on the farmers-herders crisis has confirmed the suspension of the Ruga program by…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Professor Wole Soyinka has lent his voice to the controversy surrounding the RUGA Cattle Settlements saying it could set the country on fire if the federal government did not handle it with caution. Speaking in Lagos on Tuesday at the launch of United Nations’ Solutions 17 SDG programme, Soyinka berated the federal…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Government has rejected the planned Reserved Urban Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative by the federal government aimed at settling herders in parts of the country. On the other hand, Nasarawa state government has giving full support to the scheme. While rejecting the Ruga initiative, Edo state said it has ”an…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The paramount ruler and people of Akpa/Otobi community in Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA, one of the areas designated by the Federal Government to host the proposed (Ruga) settlements for herdsmen in Benue State yesterday led his subjects in a peaceful protest in Otukpo town rejecting the proposal. The people who came…