Tag Archives: HERDSMEN

Fulani herdsmen scampered for safety when residents of Boti in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region embarked on an exercise to forcefully evict them from the community. This followed complaints that the herders had been leading their cows to destroy farm produce in the area. The residents armed …

The Chief of Ejura Traditional Area Barima Osei Hwedie II has declared Ejura and its environs as a no go zone for nomadic herdsmen.   The decision, according to the chief was to prevent Ejura from losing its title as the food basket of the entire Ashanti Region and also …

The Chief of Ejura Traditional Area, Barima Osei Hwedie II, has destooled one of his sub-chiefs for allegedly aiding some nomadic herdsmen in suspected armed robbery attacks in the area.   The chief of Miminaso No2, Nana Obri Yeaboah was destooled on Sunday November 27, 2022 following the killing of …

Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed two persons in Zongo Akiki, Makurdi Local Government Area in Benue State. Zongo Akiki is a community located along Nigeria Army School of Military Engineering , NASME, Northbank, Makurdi. It was the first herdsmen attack in the metropolitan council since gunmen launched a blistering attacks on Benue …

The irate youth of Adoe, a farming community in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono Region, has descended on Fulani herdsmen in the area and killed several cattle. The aggrieved youth, who wore red headgear and armbands, said the influx of the nomads in the area had been worrying …

Over 30 herdsmen transporting cattle in a truck from Akateng in Upper Manya Krobo to Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region have been involved in a near fatal accident. The accident occurred Wednesday August 3,2022 at around 5:00pm. The herdsmen, mostly fulanis, and the cattle, were aboard the Asia Truck …

Hundreds of Farmers in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality of the Ashanti Region have hailed  the Chief of Ejura Traditional Area, Barima Osei Hwedie II, for successfully halting destructive  invasion of Normadic herdsmen in the area. The farmers say, the move by the chief to stop all cattle herdsmen from working in the area …

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has sent a warning to the Christian community in the South-East about plots by the Fulani herdsmen to attack churches in the region. The spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful, who made this known in a statement, affirmed that the herders had already infiltrated …

Tens of thousands of cattle have virtually taken over five out of the seven forest reserves within the Sunyani forest district, contrary to Forest Protection ACT 1974, (ACT 243) as amended by the Forest Protection ACT, 2002 (ACT 624). Per the ACT, it is completely illegal for any domestic animal …

Alhaji Umar Babs Bodinga , Municipal Chief Executive of Abuakwa North and Chairman of the Municipal Security Council (MUSEC), has led the security agencies in the Municipality to flush out nomadic herdsmen in the Municipality today Saturday 19th February 2022. After a peaceful deliberations with the herdsmen by the Municipal …