News In Brief Today - 11/5/2016

Good Morning my people.please read the News in brief,make i find food chop..LOL

1- ‘Killer herdsmen not Nigerians, government to set up ranches’

No! The herdsmen inflicting violence on their host communities in the country are not Nigerians, let alone being the usual Fulani known for cattle rearing and roving grazing in Nigeria. This was the position of the Federal Government yesterday.

The government also announced plans to establish cattle ranches ‎across the country as part of the solution to the perennial clashes between farmers and herdsmen.

The Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, who spoke at a public hearing convened by the Senate as part of its investigation into the clashes, said that government believed that those attacking villages and killing people were still elements of the Boko Haram insurgents.

2- Nobody can stop govt from acquiring land’

The Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee, Abdullahi Adamu, has shout down some stakeholders who are speaking against the creation of ‎grazing reserve routes. Adamu has said that “Nobody can stop the government from acquiring land anywhere. Government is government. If anybody thinks he is violent, ‎government has the monopoly of violence.” Also, the Fulani herdsmen under the auspices of Meiyetti Allah insisted that grazing reserves routes should be sustained. They suggested some measures which include the establishment of a ministry of livestock.

3-Tiv, Idoma, Ohanaeze, S’South, disagree over grazing reserves

The stakeholders from various ethnic nationalities like Tivs, Idoma, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South-South, through their representatives, have supported the planned establishment of ranches by the Federal Government but kicked against continuation of the grazing reserve routes policy. They argued that it would be wrong for the Federal Government to deploy public resources to establish grazing reserves for herdsmen.

4- Ekiti won’t give out land, says Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared that his government would not release any portion of the state’s land, as grazing reserves for Fulani herdsmen.

In a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, he said the governor made the declaration in an interview programme on the local radio and television stations in the state.

5- My assets’ form tampered with, Saraki tells CCT

Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday alleged that his assets’ declaration form submitted in 2003 when he was the Governor of Kwara State had been tampered with.

He claimed that the refusal of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to interface with him on the form was because they knew he would challenge them on insertions made on the form.

The counsel to Saraki, Mr. Paul Erokoro (SAN) made the allegation at the resumed trial of the Senate president on the falsification of assets’ charge.

6- Buhari wants attractive incentives for investors

For sustainable development and coordinated growth to take place, President Muhammadu Buhari has called on state governments across the country to offer attractive incentives as a way of wooing investors into their economies.

He made the call yesterday while opening the Katsina State Economic and Investment Summit, 2016, stressing that, for laudable transformation to take place, every player must do his part including the Federal Government.

7- Gowon, others preach unity, caution agitators for Biafra

Former Nigeria head of state, General Yakubu Gowon yesterday faulted agitators for a separate state of Biafra, saying such agitation does not take into cognizance the effect of the civil war on children.

Speaking at the public presentation of a book: ZIK: Testimonies To A Great African, edited by Henry Onukwuba to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe’s in Lagos, General Gowon, who was at the helm of affairs during the war said the agitators have not learned from history.

8-Reps throw weight behind deregulation

The House of Representatives Committee on Downstream Sector has described deregulation as that the ultimate solution to the frequent fuel scarcity in the country.

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Downstream Sector, Joseph Akinlaja, who disclosed this during a visit to the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Corporation (NIPCO) in Apapa, Lagos, said deregulation of the downstream sector will not only give equal opportunity to all operators but also allow market forces to guide the sector.

9- Gunmen kill five in Rivers, slay three soldiers in Bayelsa

In what seems to becoming a daily affair in the Niger Delta, unidentified gunmen yesterday invaded the premises of the Rivers State High Court complex along Moscow and Station roads, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, killing two security personnel and inflicted severe machete cuts on two others.

Similarly, gunmen invaded a bar along the Polytechnic Road in Bori, the headquarters of Khana Local Government Council of Rivers State and shot dead three persons late on Monday night.

And in Bayelsa State, three soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, code-name Operation Pulo Shield were feared killed in an ambush by gunmen, suspected to be militants.

10- We are ready to die for the cause, says MASSOB

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday maintained that members of the group are ready to die for Biafra.

In a statement signed by the leader of MASSOB Comrade Uche Madu made available to newsmen in Abakaliki, MASSOB made it clear that no amount of intimidation, harassments, arrests, killings and detentions will stop them from actualizing the Sovereign state of Biafra.

-Guardian

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