Herdsmen Attack News Today

 Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has donated N5 million to victims of suspected gunmen attacks in a Benue village inhabited mainly by Izzi natives from Ebonyi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that suspected gunmen on May 30 attacked the Nwori-Ndi Obasi Village in Ado Local Government Area (LGA) of...The Advocate

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State Ebonyi State Government has directed the 13 local government Chairmen in the State to immediately form local vigilente and put cross bars at strategic locations to fish out criminal elements and assist security agents in the LGAs. Briefing Journalists shortly after the State Executive Council meeting in Abakaliki, the State Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Barr. Uchenna Orji said that EXCO also directed that 100 Neighborhood Watch in each ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tope Omogbolagun Soaked in pain, Sola managed to mumble a few words while struggling to muffle tears forming in her eyes as she narrated her experience at the hands of killer herders who raped her. Eighteen-year-old Sola recalled how she was deflowered on her parents’ farm in the presence of her siblings. She said, “My siblings and I went to work on the farm that day. It was harvest season and we decided to assist our parents. Around 4 pm, when we were completing t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada A  farmer, Sunday Ahmed and two of his friends were working on Ahmed’s farms at Owobamigbe village in the Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State on January 21, 2020, when some herdsmen allegedly appeared with cattle to graze on the farm. But Sunday and his friends resisted them especially as they had just planted some crops. A fight ensued and the armed herdsmen overpowered Ahmed and his friends. The two friends fled to inform members of the comm...

Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta Suspected Fulani herdsmen, on Thursday, attacked Owode-Ketu and Ijoun villages in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan Two farmers have narrated how they escaped the onslaught of armed herdsmen at Dagbere village, Ayete, in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The farmers, who spoke in a video obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, said they were going to the farm when the men ambushed and opened fire on them.  The two siblings said despite the shots, they managed to escape.  One of them showed bullet marks on his body. He said, “We were ...