The Police have arrested a herder with one AK-47 Riffle and 7.62 Ammunition in Isigwe Ugbawka community in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu state.
The command’s spokesman, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, said in Enugu on Saturday that the suspect was arrested on April 4 at a farmland in the community.
Retired Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has urged Nigerians to defend themselves from killers across the country instead of depending on the armed forces.
Danjuma, a former chief of army staff from 1976-1979, said this today in a live telecast programme of the 10th anniversary of the Taraba State University, Jalingo, as he also made a grave accusation against the armed forces, accusing them of providing cover and defending the killers.
The displaced people of Ogobia and Ondo communities of Ugboju district in Otukpo local government of Benue State, returned to their ancestral homes, six months after a communal clash.
SERAP based in Nigeria has written a strong worded letter to the United Nations Security Council requesting its intervention in bringing to an end the killing of civillians and destruction of properties by nomadic militants
President Muhammadu Buhari told a town hall meeting in Makurdi today that Inspector-general of Police, Idris Ibrahim has some query to answer as to why he violated his order to relocate to Benue state, following the killings of 73 villagers by herdsmen.
