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Advertisement Herders of Fulani extraction have been recently accused of kidnapping and killings in some parts of the country — and in some places they have been attacked and given quit notices. But in a statement signed by Bashir Tofa, the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, and 22 others, they asked that said criminality shouldn’t be attached to only one particular ethnic group. “The on-going profiling of the Fulani and the...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 17 February 2021 From the moral, political, social and economic perspectives, an objective and  critical analysis of the ever-worsening insecurity situation in the country points to the failing factor on the part of  the current leadership, to live up to its constitutional mandate and public expectation to protect the lives of the citizens. In fact, the very idea of granting amnesty to supposedly ‘repentant’ criminal elements, who are nothing other than...

TODAY February 3, 2021 The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari and governors of the 36 states of the federation to explore all available channels to protect the Fulani communities in the South. The call came, apparently, against the backdrop of the order given by Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to herdsmen to vacate the state’s forest reserves and ultimatum given the herders by Yoruba ‘’freedom fighter’’, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho, to ...

The former Presidential candidate under Defunct National Republican Convention, NRC, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Abia State Focal Person on Social Investment Programme, Hon. Chinenye Nwaogu has encouraged Abians with entrepreneurial skills to always make themselves available whenever programmes that will better their lots come in. Interacting with a cross section of journalists shortly after the inauguration of Abia State council on Small and Medium scale Enterprises at the government house, Umuahia, Hon. Nwaogu pointed out that his office had the clear mandate of Governor...

He said the same compensations also go to farmers whose farms are destroyed by the herders. The Governor stated this when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise daily on Wednesday, “We pay compensation of N100,000 for any cow that is killed on account of a misunderstanding between the farmers and the herders and pay the same amount for farmlands destroyed by strayed cows,” Governor Ikpeazu said. “We are not diagnosing the problem properly… we have people who are inter...

Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, former presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention, NRC, in the 1993 presidential election, has expressed concern over alleged attacks on northners, especially the Fulani in Southern part of Nigeria. He explained that it was unacceptable and a plan by enemies of the nation to initiate violent crisis that may lead to the destruction of the country. Tofa, in a statement, observed that the tension is beginning to brew, saying that if revenge attacks on S...

Share Comrade Femi Falana’s 20th Convocation Lecture to the Ekiti State University delivered on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 is not only topical but also profound. Titled “Restructuring and the liberation of Nigeria”, it speaks to the burning issues of the moment and cannot but command the attention of anyone bothered about this country’s dipping fortunes on all fronts and the unfortunate turn of events, especially on security of life and property, since retired General Muhammadu Buhar...