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Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde (R), with Mrs Idowu Babarinde (L) whose son was shot by herdsmen Kayode Oyero Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, visited the families of some of the victims of herdsmen brutality in the Ibarapa North-West Local Council Development Area of the state. The governor visited Mrs Idowu Babarinde whose son was shot by herdsmen. He also visited the family of Dr Fatai Aborode, a prominent farmer who was alleged...

Sunday Igboho: Aggrieved Igangan Youths Welcome Makinde With Placards Makinde arrived in the area on Sunday evening, held meetings with stakeholders in a bid to find a lasting solution to the herdsmen crisis rocking the area. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 01, 2021 Aggrieved youths in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Council Development Area of Oyo State, welcomed the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, with placards asking him to do more about insecurity in their area. According to The PUNCH, M...

Punch Newspapers Sections and WALE OYEWALE There is renewed tension in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State following the alleged takeover of two villages by some herdsmen. The two villages, Kajola and Gbagba  Idere are located in the Ayete Local Government Area of the state. Residents of Ayete told our correspondent that a Fulani herdsman, Iskilu Wakil, was asked to leave the villages because he did not buy the land he was occupying. This was said to have infuriated the herder...

Again, the herders-farmers crisis in the country is on the front burner. The recent disturbance of public peace in Oyo and Ondo states in the Southwest geo-political zone with reports of arson and alleged killings are indications that the present administration, like its predecessors, has not found solutions to the age-long problem yet. The reactions that have trailed the development also proved that the government still has a lot of work to do if it hopes to permanently put the problem behind ...

We Lived Under His Oppressive Carnage For 20 Years’ Residents of Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Area of Oyo State yesterday vowed never to allow the Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu, to return to the community. x Speaking with The Guardian in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the convener, Igangan Development Advocates, Oladiran Oladokun, said accepting Saliu back in the town was tantamount to suicide. Oladokun was reacting to a statement made by Saliu that he�...

Punch Newspapers Sections Wale Oyewale The inhabitants of Igangan community in Oyo State are currently living in fear of possible reprisal attack by killer herders in reaction to their recent eviction from parts of the state following the ultimatum given to them by a Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho. Barring the security arrangements being put in place by the state government, the community leaders, comprising the Asigangan of Igangan, Oba Adewuyi Olaoye; the Asi...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa North-West Local Council Development Area of Oyo State have vowed never to allow the now-ejected Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu, to return to the community. According to them, accepting the Seriki Fulani back in the town was tantamount to self-suicide, adding that they would rather die than to accept Saliu back in the town. “The entire town would rather go into self-suicide than to accept Seriki back. We would rather ...

We’ll Rather Die Than Accept Evicted Seriki Fulani Back – Igangan Community Residents Vow The community warned that bringing back the Seriki Fulani to the town would be tantamount to suicide, adding that they would rather die than to accept Saliu back in the town. by SaharaReporters, New York Jan 29, 2021 Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa North-West Local Council Development Area of Oyo State have vowed to resist any attempt to bring back the ejected Seriki Fulani of Igangan, Abdulkadri S...

Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makinde The Igangan community in Oyo State has expressed gratitude to Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho for his his efforts towards liberating the community and the Ibarapa people from the insecurity created by criminal herdsmen. The community also lauded Governor Seyi Makinde; Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Adamu; and the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mrs. Ngozi Onadeko. The Chairman of Igangan Community Council, Mr. Segun Okedeji ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State have narrated how the now-ejected Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu, used his son, Ibrahim Saliu, to free herdsmen arrested for various heinous crimes in the area. The President, Igangan Development Advocates, Wale Oladokun, disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘What actually happened between Sunday Igboho, Seriki Fulani and Ibarapa residents’. According to him, the Seriki Fulani, wh...