Haliru Yakub

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with members and leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was  attended by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, National Security Adviser (NSA) Retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno and Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita.

People often talk of the Fulani being in power in Nigeria but the majority of Fulani are pastoralists and the reality is that they have very limited voice in national narratives and are constantly maligned. There is consistent presentation in the media of pastoralists as “armed herdsmen” rampaging all over the country, killing farmers and taking over their and.

Senator Emmanuel Paulker may have played the devil’s advocate when he raised a motion for an abridgment o the tenure of the incumbent board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In raising argument seeking to put an end to the tenure of the board led by Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, Paulker, one of the senators representing Bayelsa state, argued that the board’s tenure ought to have ended on the grounds that it was a continuation of the Sen. Bassey Henshaw-led board.