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Punch Newspapers Sections • Gani Adams vows to protect S’West Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), says the order by the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, that herdsmen should leave forest reserves within seven days is legal. In a statement on Sunday, Falana said the order was in tandem with Section 42 (1) (e) and (g) of the Forestry Law of Ondo State which provided that whoever in any forest reserve, except with the authority in writing of the prescribed officer, digs, cuts, turns or cultivates the soil or makes a farm or plantation; pastures cattle or permits cattle to trespa...

Punch Newspapers Sections  Sunday Aborisade and  Peter Dada The management of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, on Sunday ordered the closure of the institution until further notice. The development was not unconnected to the protest that followed the fatal accident, which occurred opposite the campus of the institution on Saturday, in which no fewer than nine persons, including some students of the university, were killed. The directive to close down the school was contained in a circular issued by the acting Registrar, Mr Opeoluwa Akinfemiwa. The circular read, “Further to ...

Peter Dada, Akure The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, says herdsmen were not asked to vacate Ondo State. He said this during the meeting between members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and members of the Nigeria Governors Forum on Monday. Some of the governors in attendance include Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo, and Jigawa, and Kebbi states. In his welcome remarks, the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said the meeting was called to resolve the issue of insec...

Ondo eviction begins today as South-West govs, Miyetti Allah meet Our Reporters Ahead of Monday’s meeting between South-West governors and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, groups, including the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere and its northern counterpart, the Arewa Consultative Forum, on Sunday called for a peaceful resolution of the eviction notice given to herdsmen in Ondo State’s forest reserves. While the National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Emmanuel Yawe, in an interview with The PUNCH said the group’s focus was peace, Afenifere stated that one...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero and Peter Dada There is anxiety among some indigenes of Ondo State as the one-week eviction order issued by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu that herdsmen leave the state’s forest reserves expired on Sunday. The PUNCH had earlier reported Akeredolu had on January 18, 2021 ordered herdsmen to leave the state’s forest reserves within seven days following incidents of kidnappings and sundry crimes attributed to Fulani herders. But the Northern Elders’ Forum, amongst others, had directed the Fulani herdsmen to disregard the notice to quit forest reserves in t...