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ON THE GO ABCON: 26 BDC operators arrested over ‘money laundering, terrorism financing’ The Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) says 26 members have been arrested by security operatives, over alleged unlawful foreign exchange (FX) transactions.Advertisement Aminu Gwadabe, president of... Makinde: For blocking governance loopholes, I’ve received threats over 2023 ambition Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, says he has received threats over the forthco...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Former Governor of Ogun State and Senator Representing Ogun Central, Ibikunle Amosun, on Wednesday, joined Senator Tolu Odebiyi of Ogun West in calling for the relocation of Yewa indigenes who fled to Benin Republic as a result of the recent herdsmen attacks. The two Senators made the plea at the floor of the Senate through a motion moved by Odebiyi and seconded by Amosun. This is coming at a time the Ogun State Government is still insisting there was no Ogun indige...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 9 March 2021 DAUD OLATUNJI writes on the reported persistent attacks on locals by suspected herdsmen in the Yewa area of Ogun State, which have compelled many residents to flee to neighbouring Benin Republic where they are currently living as refugees The farmers and herders’ conflicts that started like skirmishes have now become a full blown crisis with attendant loss of lives and property. In fact, hundreds of residents of Ogun West Senatorial District, o...

Peace committee members led by Kayode Oladele on a fact-finding mission at Asa on the Nigeria-Benin Republic border in Yewa North Local Council br The issue of insecurity ravaging Nigeria has manifested in several forms, the most poignant being the conflict between herders and farmers in some parts of the country. Whereas the clashes between nomadic herders and natives of agrarian communities continue to make headlines, efforts by relevant authorities to provide mutually acceptable mediation ...

Kunle Abdul-Azeez The issue of insecurity ravaging Nigeria has manifested in several forms, the most poignant being the conflict between herders and farmers in some parts of the country. Whereas the clashes between nomadic herders and natives of agrarian communities continued to make headlines, efforts by relevant authorities to provide mutually acceptable mediation mechanisms and find a lasting solution to the recurring hostilities have rarely gained traction in the media. In the midst of the ...

The Nigeria Red Cross Society has said some residents of Yewa axis of Ogun State now sleep in Benin Republic to avoid being killed by herdsmen terrorising

Punch Newspapers Sections Suspected herdsmen have hacked a young woman, Elizabeth Pascal, to death. Pascal was was said to have been gruesomely murdered on Monday evening at CAC Olorunda, Moriwi community of Imeko-Afon Local Government Area. Our correspondent gathered that Pascal had gone to the stream to fetch water for domestic use when she was murdered. She was said to have been attacked on her way back from the stream. The young woman had encountered her assailants, who, it was learnt, did ...

Herdsmen Attacks: Ogun Community Counters Abiodun, Says Residents Fled To Benin Republic The group emphasised that many farmers in Yewa North had fled their homes for Benin Republic, while also shunning the palliatives sent to them by Governor Dapo Abiodun. by Saharareporters, New York Mar 02, 2021 Yewa and Imeko-Afon communities have confirmed that incessant attacks by Fulani herders had forced residents to flee to Benin Republic towns as refugees, refuting claims by the Ogun State Governmen...

Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta Victims of the crisis in Yewaland, Ogun State, have disclosed that about 1,000 indigenes fled to a refugee camp in Benin ...

The governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Ogun State, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade, has faulted a claim by the Ogun State Government that Yewa residents relocating to Benin Republic as a result of herdsmen crisis are not Nigerians, but Hohoris and Eguns. In an attempt to say no indigene of Yewa North had become a refugee in Benin Republic, the Chairman of Ogun State Peace Keeping Committee on Farmers/Herders Conflict, Hon. Kayode Oladele had stated that the Hohoris and Eguns ...