Herdsmen crisis: Ogun residents now sleep in Benin Republic for protection - Red Cross
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
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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 not hesitate before hacking her to death in cold blood. The Eselu of Iselu, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, ...
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 Government that it is not true. The communities, speaking through the Yewa North Patriotic Forum, stated th...
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 “are not actually the original indigenes of Yewa, they are the people from the other side of the b...