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Vanguard News Widows of military personnel cry out over unpaid benefits On By Peter Duru THEY came out in their numbers to witness the last Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration in Makurdi and with much nostalgia managed to cheer the galant display of the military personnel on parade at the event. This, before the demise of their spouses, was their constituency. They were wives of soldiers who lived in barracks across the country and still shared the fond memories of life in the barracks. But the death of the husbands have left them in bewildered and pondering how life has been so unkind ...

By Peter Duru, Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Davies Iheamnachor & Ibrahim HassanWuyo Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Middle Belt Forum, MBF, and Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, yesterday rose in support of Nobel laureate , Professor Wole Soyinka, asking President Muhammadu Buhari to act fast on the herders’ crisis to avert another civil war in the country. Prof. Soyinka had, in BBC Pidgin Service on Saturday, urged the President to tackle the activities of herdsmen across the country to stave off a civil war. ”We may enter a phase of serious skirmishes which get more and mor...

The National President of Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Dr. Bitrus Pogu, Monday said that Prof. Wole Soyinka’s warning that the lingering herdsmen crisis could led the country into a civil war if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to act fast was timely and perfectly correct.

Vanguard News Herdsmen/Farmers’ clashes: Ganduje leading by example On By Dirisu Yakubu Fielding questions from journalists in Katsina recently, the Kano state  governor, Abdullahi Ganduje availed the world of what his administration has been able to do in the past few years to stem the tide of insurgency and banditry, saying, “we are building a Ruga settlement in Samsosua forest, our border with Katsina and we have succeeded in curtailing the effect of banditry in that area. So, we are building many houses, constructing a dam, establishing a cattle artificial insemination centre. We ar...

Vanguard News EVICTION: Afenifere, MBF, PANDEF, Amechi tackle NEF On *Nobody‘ll lose sleep if they decide to return – Afenifere *NEF’s position shameful, disappointing — Agbekoya *Get off your high horse, PANDEF tells Northern elders *Northern elders’ll set Nigeria on fire with divisive utterances—  Mbazulike Amechi *No ethnic group should lord it over others— Gbajabiamila By Emma Amaize, Anayo Okoli, Dapo Akinrefon, Peter Duru, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Chimaobi Nwaiwu Regional groups in the country, yesterday, took on one of their northern counterparts, the Northern Elders Forum...