Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday assented to the bill prohibiting Open Cattle Grazing and Trespass of Cattle on Land. Sanwo-Olu signed the... Read More
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Lagos State Assembly Passes Bills on the prohibition of Open Grazing in the state. The assembly also passed the bill on value-added tax (VAT) during... Read More
Anglican women in Anambra State have affirmed that they were in support of the stand of Southern Governors on open grazing; saying herders have caused... Read More
The Southern Governors Forum has set September 1 as the deadline for states in the region to enact anti-open grazing law. This was one of... Read More
The Aare Ona Kakanfo, Iba Gani Adams, says the Federal Government’s unpopular policies such as insistence on recovering grazing routes for herders to graze their... Read More
The Federal government has remained adamant over the plan to retrace and recover grazing routes across the country, In spite of the overwhelming outcry against... Read More
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The leader of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), Chief Edwin Clark, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence on open grazing is “unpatriotic and... Read More
Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf has said that the 17 Southern governors should be sensible enough to... Read More
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, has described open grazing of cattle as an “unIslamic” practice that should be discontinued. Masari stated this Tuesday... Read More
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has described as “misplaced priority” the Federal Government’s plan to commence rehabilitation work on grazing reserves in the... Read More
The Presidency has expressed reservation over the position of Southern Governors’ Forum on open grazing, saying their decision to ban open grazing in their states... Read More
The Patriotic Think Tank UK (PTT UK), a coalition of Igbo intelligentsia based in the UK, has urged the Southern Governors to begin full implementation... Read More
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says the ban on open grazing as agreed by the 17 Southern governors will be strictly implemented in... Read More
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has disagreed with the ban on open grazing imposed by the governors of the 17 states... Read More
The Senators from Southern Nigeria have backed the governors of their states for declaring a total ban on open grazing. The Herald had reported that... Read More
The Bayelsa State Government has enacted a law prohibiting open grazing of livestock in the state. Gov. Douye Diri assented to the Livestock Breeding, Rearing... Read More
The Miyetti Allah Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has appealed to the Ondo State Government to provide ranches for its members as they were tired... Read More
The Northern Governors Forum says the current system of herding conducted mainly through open grazing is no longer sustainable in view of growing urbanisation and... Read More
A bill to regulate the activities of herdsmen in Oyo State has passed second reading at the state assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)... Read More
The Benue State Livestock Guards has impounded 105 cows and four sheep caught grazing openly near Akawe Torkula College of Advanced and Professional Studies, Makurdi.... Read More
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court in Benue sentenced three herders, Iliya Garba, Hassan Abdullahi, and Lanshak Lonfalk, to a year imprison each, for violating Benue Anti-Open Grazing Law,... Read More
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