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•Monarchs, petrol dealers major victims in Ekiti Gboyega Akinsanmi, Victor Olakitan in Ado Ekiti and Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan Farmers have been under serial attacks in all Southwest states, mainly Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo, fuelling fear of acute food shortage if the state governments do not intervene proactively, THISDAY has learnt. Across the geo-political zone, findings revealed, farmers are abandoning their farmsteads, plantations, orchards and processing factories amid the increas...

news How to restore security in Yewa, by group Mustapha Temidayo Armed groups occupying Yewa communties in Ogun State pose danger to security and livelihood in South West and Benin Republic, the Nigerian Human Rights Community, (NHRC), has said. The group said if the budding armed cell in Yewa is allowed to grow, the terrorists may replicate in Ogun State,  the violence and chaos in North East and North West in the shortest time. Armed groups are currently in Yewa communities o...

The red chamber also mandated relevant security agencies to restore law and order in the troubled communities. by SaharaReporters, New York Mar 10, 2021 The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, asked the Nigerian Government to bring back the people of Yewa in Ogun State who fled their communities to the Republic of Benin following incessant herdsmen attacks. It asked the Nigerian government to direct officials of the National Emergency Management Agency and Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to see to ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Daud Olatunji There is no respite for residents of Yewaland in Ogun State as rampaging nomadic Fulani herdsmen continue to maul them on their home soil. Consequently, many of the residents have fled to neighbouring Pobe in Benin Republic. The number of Yewa villagers taking refuge at a makeshift Internally Displaced Persons camp located at Pobe in Benin Republic continues to increase day after day as Fulani herdsmen unleash fresh terror on residents of Yewaland. Some v...

news We won’t return home until herdsmen killings stop —Ogun villagers who fled to Benin Republic The Punch Daud Olatunji My wife and I ran away to the Eegelu community in Benin Republic when killer herdsmen started invading our homes, killing and burning houses,” said Abiodun Abikale, one of the Ogun villagers who fled to Benin Republic. Some villagers in villages in Yewaland such as Oha, Asa, Igbooro, Ibeku, Moro, Agbon-Ojodu among others fled their homes in Ogun State w...

Punch Newspapers Sections Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta Five pregnant Nigerian women have been delivered of babies at a make-shift Internally Displaced Persons camp located at a community in the neighbouring Benin Republic. Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that the women were part of hundreds of residents of troubled communities in Yewaland, Ogun State, who fled to Benin Republic following alleged deadly attacks by suspected herdsmen. One of the women was said to have had her baby delivered thro...