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"Synergy, Commitment Are Key to Global Energy Sustainability, Says Bounour

By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade  The Chief Executive Officer, Egbin Power Plc, Mr Mohktar Bounour says global transition to cleaner energ and sustainable environment are achievable, as long as there is strong synergy and commitment among stakeholders in the value chain.  He spoke during the maiden edition of  Asharami Square in Lagos. This is an initiative introduced and implemented by the Sahara Group, in order to amplify discourse on energy sustainability through  media advocacy globally. He said: " Having analyzed the percentage of global greenhouse emissions attributed to sectors including electricity/heat production, agriculture/forestry and transportation, we are realised that there is need for synergy  and renewed commitment among stakeholders". According to him, Egbin Power has unwavering commitment to reduce carbon emissions and promotes sustainable energy sources, stressing that the need to depeening engagement and advocacy among stakeholders in
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Police confirms death of 27 herdsmen in Nasarawa


By Akinola Ajibade

No fewer than twenty seven herdsmen have been killed in an airstrike in Doma Local Area of Nasarawa State,  the State's Deputy Supretendent of Police ( DSP)Ramhan Nansel has confirmed.

Nansel, who is also the Command’s spokesman, gave this figure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN).

While conducting the interview on Thursday in Lafia,  Nansel said that preliminary investigation revealed that the pastoralists had on Tuesday gone to Benue State to pay fines for the release of cattle impounded by the Benue State Livestock Guards implementing the State’s Anti-Open Grazing and Ranching  Law.

According to him, something like a drone or an aircraft hovered in the air and shelled the herdsmen on Tuesday day, when they were loading some of the cows into vehicles in a vehicle in Kwatiri village, a border community between Benue and Nasarawa.

Nansel further said that the Commissioner of Police, Maiyaki Mohammed-Baba, had visited the scene of the incident and also attended the burial of the deceased alongside the State Deputy Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, and some traditional rulers. .

Investigation, he said, was ongoing to unravel those behind the act, adding that the command had deployed policemen to the area to prevent the breakdown of law and order.

Similarly, GPovernor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State had since condemned the dastardly act, saying he was in touch with his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, over the matter as security agencies continued their investigations.

Sule called on the people to remain calm and not take laws into their own hands.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has also condemned the alleged killing and called for full investigation to unravel those behind the attack.

MACBAN, in a statement made available to the NAN by its National Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Nura, said: “This is the third time we are experiencing such happenings.”

He said apart from the victims, livestock were also killed in the attack.

Nura said: “MACBAN describes the action as not only condemnable but a war crime under the Geneva Convention that prohibits the wanton killing of livestock.

“We call on the authorities to investigate this terror, punish the culprits and to be sure that incidents like this will not happen again.”


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