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HERDSMEN KILLINGS: FG, ECOWAS MOVE TO END OPEN GRAZING The federal government and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have deepened their collaboration to end the incessant crises involving herdsmen and famers, which have killed scores and displaced many more across West Africa especially Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari told a joint high-level meeting of ECOWAS Ministers of Security and Agriculture/Animal Resources On Pastoralism and Cross-Border Transhumance, on Thursday, that open grazing of cattle needs to be reviewed in favour of ranching. Represented by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, the president who declared the meeting open, noted that ranching is the most productive method of modern animal husbandry adding that for West Africa to curb the damaging conflict it must meet this global standard. Osinbajo submitted that the increasing deaths and destruction associated with the conflict has increased the tension which has now been int...

Killings: Resign, Catholic Bishops tell Buhari Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze Amidst growing concerns about the recent killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the country, including two Catholic priests and 15 other worshippers in Benue State, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. The CBCN urged President Buhari to stop presiding “over the killing fields and mass graveyard” that the country had allegedly become and choose the part of honour by considering “stepping aside to save the nation from total collapse.” The CBCN made the call in a communique signed by its President, Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze, and Secretary, Most Rev. Camillus Umoh, and made available to The PUNCH on Thursday evening. The bishops, in the communique titled, “When will this barbarism end?” condemned the increasing attacks by the suspected herdsmen, whom they said had turned the country into a massive grave...

NIGERIANS MUST RISE TO STOP ONGOING KILLINGS – ORTOM Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, cut short his leave abroad to return on Thursday this week and face the worsening security situation in the state. Speaking with newsman at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, he appealed to Nigerians to rise and stop the ongoing killings nationwide. Excerpts: Question: You have cut short your vacation, what informed that decision? Governor Ortom: There is no way my state would be on fire with the magnitude of what we are seeing today and I’ll still be on vacation. I cannot be on vacation when the entire state is on fire to this magnitude. I never expected what is happening to have taken place. I know my Deputy, the Acting Governor is doing his best. I’ve been in touch with him on daily basis but at this particular time he needs me and other stakeholders of the state to come together, and of course the Presidency, to stop this pogrom that is going on. This is unwarranted....