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The National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has declared that nobody has the power to remove Fulani herdsmen from Ondo State’s forests.  Bodejo stated this in an interview with The Sun, noting that all lands in the country belong to the Fulani.  He also said only Fulani herdsmen could tackle the bandits kidnapping and killing people across the country.  The Fulani leader stated this just as the seven-day ultimatum the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, issued to herdsmen to leave forest reserves in the state expired today, Sunday.  He said, “The Ondo State governor doesn’t have any right to give such ultimatum to our people. People, including Fulani voted for him to be the governor; so he should be the governor of everybody in the state. “Fulani have been in the forests he is talking about even before he was born; they have been there for over 250 years. No matter how dangerous a forest may be, Fulani would go and sett...

Some gunmen on Saturday evening killed a popular socialite, Olaleye Ajibola, popularly called Gatuso, in a hotel on NTC premises, Iyaganku in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. SaharaReporters gathered that there was a robbery going on in the hotel when the popular socialite arrived there.  He was subsequently shot dead by the robbers. According to an eyewitness, Gatuso was making a call when the robbers sighted him and shot him at close range, probably believing he was calling security agencies. Our correspondent gathered that the robbers had completed the operation before Gatuso was killed. The eyewitness told SaharaReporters that guests, members of staff and other people at the hotel lost valuables to the robbery incident.   News OBITUARY AddThis :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3c8f1fJ via EDUPEDIA

Okonkwo Kingsley Nwabuike South African security operatives have rearrested a fugitive Nigerian drug dealer, Okonkwo Nwabuike, who jumped bail and fled the country more than three years ago after failing to appear in court.  He was rearrested while trying to re-enter the country on a flight from Nigeria. Okonkwo Kingsley Nwabuike Afronaija Nwabuike, 46, was rearrested at O. R. Tambo International Airport on Thursday, January 21, by the Hawks —South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), which targets organised crime, economic crime, corruption, and other serious crime referred to it by the President or the South African Police Service.  “His arrest followed information received from Interpol about the suspect, who was declared wanted in August 2017 for dealing in drugs. He was said to be arriving at the airport in Johannesburg from Nigeria (when he was arrested). The Hawks pounced on him shortly af...

An Oodua Republic agigator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has narrated how bullets were fired at him at the home of the Seriki of Fulani in Ibarapa, Oyo State, and did not harm him.  Igboho added that suspected Fulani herdsmen killing and kidnapping people in the South-West had done enough and should leave.  Speaking in an interview with popular broadcaster, Kola Olootu, in Oyo State on the notice to quit given to herdsmen ravaging the Ibarapa area of Oke Ogun, Oyo State, Igboho said the gunshots allegedly fired at him failed to harm him. He described it as a demonstrarion of the efficacy of Yoruba traditional power.  He said, “This is not an issue that affects Sunday Igboho but a matter of concern to the entire Yoruba race. I am saying it pointedly that I am too strong for Fulani bandits to attack or capture, so this matter is not about me at all.  “I don’t have a child who would be kidnapped by Fulani men because my children ar...

Officials of the Bayelsa State government have led some environmentalists, officials of the Ministries of Minerial Resources and Environment and National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) to the site of the recent oil spill in Koluama, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.  According to the government officials, the visit was to assure the affected communities of government’s efforts to ascertain the source of the spill, extent of the spill and its effects on the livelihoods of the people.  The oil spill happened on January 16 near Funiwa offshore facilities, off the Atlantic coast.  The Senior Special Assistant to the Bayelsa State Governor on Oil and Gas, Mr. Timi Seimiebo, who led the visitation team, urged the people of the community to remain calm.  He said samples taken from the oil spill site would be sent for laboratory analysis to know the oil exploration company responsible for it.  According to Seimiebo, “Once th...