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Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore spokesman Saleh Alhassan Fulani herdsmen under the aegis of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore say despite their exit from the South-East and the implementation of the anti-open grazing law, the region has continued to witness insecurity. The spokesman for the group, Saleh Alhassan, stated this during a chat with PUNCH Live on Tuesday, adding that the development was evidence that Fulani herders were never the problem. He said that there was no more open grazing in most parts of the South-East but only cattle trading, adding that the cows being sold in the South-East mostly belong to Igbo traders. Alhassan stated, “That nonsense you see in the South-East is a manifestation of frustration… They will continue burning their cities, killing themselves. “Now that the herders are not there, they are still killing themselves. Sometimes they wear Fulani attires to continue to commit heinous crimes. “Now that the herders are not there, are they having peace in the E...

Home News Sports Metro Plus Entertainment Politics Business Videos HealthWise Editorial Columns Opinion Subscribe Search Search the site Search for: Search … punchng.com © 1971-2020 The Punch newspaper PunchNG Menu: Video Spice Special Features Education Sex & Relationship Interview Columns Opinion Privacy Settings Undergraduates studying education in public varsities to get N75K per semester Deborah Tolu-Kolawole 5 October 2021 Kindly share this story: Adamu Adamu1 Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu NCE students to get N50K The Federal Government has approved the sum of N75,000 as stipend per semester for students undergoing degree programmes in Education in public universities in Nigeria. Also, the Nigeria Certificate in Education students will get N50,000 as stipend per semester as part of the deliberate effort of the government to attract the best brains into the teaching profession as promised by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhar...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday quizzed the wife of Kano State Governor, Mrs Hafsat Ganduje over alleged multimillion naira land fraud. Hafsat was interrogated for several hours in Abuja and allowed to go home later in the evening. She is expected to return to the Commission for further questioning at a later date. Our correspondent learnt that the governor’s wife was arrested by the commission following her failure to respond to an invitation over the allegations levelled against her by her son, Abdulazeez, who has reportedly fled the country. Read Also Land fraud: Kaduna court sentences fake agent to one year imprisonment Ex-Bauchi DG, one other arraigned for land fraud Two arraigned for defrauding land buyer of N2m Abdulazeez was said to have petitioned the anti-graft agency after his mother failed to refund the money paid to her to facilitate the purchase of a parcel of land in Kano. The money, it was learnt, belonged to a property developer, who enga...