Nigeria: NEC Constitutes Committee to Tackle Conflict Between Herdsmen and Farmers

Jan 19, 2018 | Omololu Ogunmade, Paul Obi, and Victor Ogunje, This Day
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The National Economic Council rose from its first meeting this year in the State House, Abuja, thursday and announced that it has set up a committee to address the protracted conflicts and bloodletting between herdsmen and farmers in the country. Briefing journalists at the end of the meeting, Kano State governor, Ibrahim Ganduje, disclosed that the committee was mandated to collaborate with the federal government in addressing mindless killings and violence between the two groups.