Adamawa government approved the completion of electrification projects in seven communities in Gombi Local Government Area of the state in Yola on Wednesday. Addressing newsmen at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting, Mrs Neido Kofulto, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, listed the communities to include Guyaku, Fahar, Mbewa and Kaulewa. Kofulto said contract for
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What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges. Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-running tensions in the country’s northern and central regions. A surge in bloodshed in 2018 prompted Nigeria’s federal government to formulate a far-reaching set of reforms for the livestock sector. Why does it matter? The new Plan represents Nigeria’s most comprehensive strategy yet to encourage pastoralists to switch to ranching and other sedentary livestock production systems. Modernising the livestock sector is key to resolving the herder-farmer conflict, which threatens Nigeria’s political stability and food security.