Tag Archives: Ban On Open Grazing Of Cattle

From our Archives: Cattle Grazing – High Court Ruling 1969 by Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson

  “I do not accept the contention of Defendants that a custom exists which imposes an obligation on the owner of farm to fence his farm whilst the owner of cattle allows his cattle to wander like pests and cause damage. Such a custom if it exists, is unreasonable and I hold that it is repugnant to natural justice, equity, ...

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“We Shall Implement Ban On Open Grazing From April 27” – Says IPOB

  “The statement read in part, “From April 27, 2022, we shall commence the enforcement of the ban on open grazing since it was pronounced by South-East governors and passed into law by many states in Biafra land, but security agencies have failed to enforce them.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 16, 2022 The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra has ...

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No Bullshitting On Open Grazing In Nigeria – By Harry Agina

  “This is the first time, or maybe the second time (not more), that I am repeating any song on this blog series, and for a good reason, too. We really don’t need any more trouble in Nigeria; we’ve had quite enough of it, too much indeed, since the inception of Buhari’s government” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 ...

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Southern Governors’ Issue Full Communique On VAT; Reaffirm Stand On Open-Grazing

  The communique was signed by Arakunrin Oluwarotimí O. Akeredólu; SAN Governor, Ondo State and Chairman, Southern Governors’ Forum OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 Southern Nigerian State Governors met in Enugu on Thursday, declaring that it is within their purview to collect the Value Added Tax, (VAT) even as Rivers State Government and the Federal Government are digging ...

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VAT: Rivers Whip FIRS In Court As Lagos Assembly Ramps Up VAT & Open Grazing Bills

  “The court’s reasoning is that if it should grant stay it is more or less like overruling itself and the court is empowered to recognize all laws enacted by the national assembly or the state house of assembly, therefore the law stands as substantive. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS |SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 A suit by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, ...

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NIGERIA: Grazing Routes, Bandit Routes And Growth Routes

  So, the message passed across by the interview was that the president knows that the problems come from foreign herders wielding AK-47s but his simple response is to resuscitate grazing routes as a solution to the menace posed by the Fulani militia. By Emmanuel Aziken Disclaiming conspiracy theories of a presidency that had been hijacked by a few visible ...

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You’re A Closet Terrorist: Southern Governors Tell Buhari’s Aide, Garba Shehu

“Dispossessing communities of their ancestral lands, encouraging denizens of the forests to overrun lands belonging to other people and forcing alien bands of migrants on the local populace to live ‘side-by-side’ with other communities cannot be for the purpose of animal husbandry. The Southern state governors’ forum has reacted to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and ...

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