The data were homogenized with Expert Team on Climate Change Detection Indices (ETCCDI) RHtests version 4 software. “We had reconciliatory meetings with the Fulani leaders,” Dogo said, but cattle are still eating the crops. White House threatens FDA chief’s job over vaccine approval. After the Feb. 10 attack on Ungwan Barde, farmers in Kufana retaliated and attacked Fulanis living nearby, Dauda acknowledges. Public health officials are anxiously tracking the capacity of intensive care units as coronavirus case numbers surge. Guns, religion and climate change intensify Nigeria’s deadly farmer-herder clashes Fulani herders lead cattle across a road near Godogodo a village in Nigeria’s Kaduna state. The water body has diminished by 90% since the 1960s due to overuse and climate change effects. His 18-year-old son was killed in a suspected attack by Fulani herders. “But first we’re prioritising Northern Nigeria industrialisation that’s going to come as a result of that,” he said. 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Related Topics Climate Change “Essentially it’s going to add almost a third of our gas production to our current gas production when train-7 is completed under the NLNG, but he has also prioritised new gas pipeline networks.”. Nigeria is recognized as being vulnerable to climate change. Despite all these caveats, climate change clearly can play a part in fostering conflict. The pandemic means trouble for huge venues that thrive on crowds. “Muslims always have the upper hand,” he said. The 25th UN Climate Change Conference will be taking place in Madrid, Spain, and will convene from 2-13 December 2019. The Sahel is warming 1.5 times faster than the global average, owing to greenhouse-gas emissions. The federal government has increased the number of police and military in hot spots, launched three major military operations in the Middle Belt region, and consulted with leaders on both sides of the conflict. Ethiopia returns refugees who fled Tigray fighting, to alarm. 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But other residents and local officials in Kafuna, the district that’s home to Kutura, blame the attack on Fulani herders, a semi-nomadic, mostly Muslim ethnic group that herds cattle primarily in northern Nigeria. Why? Fairgrounds, theme parks open drive-through holiday shows to offset lost revenue. Why is that metric important? Three years ago, farmers who grow maize, beans, yams and potatoes on the outskirts of Godogodo were having regular arguments with local Fulani herders whose cows kept eating their crops. As a result, life for the communities around Lake Chad gets tougher every year. The durations and intensities of rainfall have increased, producing large runoffs and flooding in many places in Nigeria. 24 Oct Nigeria. How Technology is Helping People Working from Home? If we add up all the promises to cut emissions … If fully implemented, these efforts will pave way for a low carbon economy and result in about 50 per cent of the reduction in emissions. “We don’t want to say this person is guilty, or that person is guilty,” said Momale, the peace commissioner. President Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani former military leader who was elected in 2015, has failed to stop the violence in Nigeria’s so-called Middle Belt, a swath of states riven by the long-simmering conflict between farmers and herders. Ngelale said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja while speaking on government’s effort at combating Climate Change issues, particularly gas flaring in the country. Studies find that meningitis cases in Northwest Nigeria may increase in the future due primarily to warmer temperatures. U.S. executes Louisiana truck driver who killed 2-year-old daughter. Minister Of State For Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, has disclosed that Nigeria places a … “There’s no action from the government,” said Samuel Augustine, a 54-year-old English teacher whose 18-year-old son was killed that night in December. Committee on Climate Change targets from its net-zero technical report are shown in shades of purple and pledges from the 2019 election manifestos are in party colours. The mindset today, he said, has become: “You will eliminate me, or I will eliminate you, and the path to war is set.”. Farmer and teacher Samuel Augustine, 54, sells grain at a local market. The World Bank has put forward projections for internal climate migration amounting to 143 million people by 2050 in three regions of the world, if no climate action is taken.” People have lost faith.”. “In the Presidential Power Initiative, Siemens is working with us to essentially solve all of the issues from generation to transmission to distribution. In 2018, the government released a National Livestock Transformation Plan, designed, among other things, to set up large ranches and modernize Nigeria’s livestock sector to take some of the pressure off arguments over land. Somebody turned off the generator powering the party. “We don’t know why [the farmers] blamed us.”. Download Vanguard News App. Violence in the region has driven millions of people from their homes in Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. “In terms of gas, Siemens is introducing a new technology that is essentially going to bring in some plants, what they call conversion plants across the Niger Delta, which is going to take this excess wasted gas that’s being flared in various communities. A U.N.-backed tribunal sentences in absentia a Hezbollah member to life in prison in the assassination of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Maybe the fact that farmers deserted their fields stoked the herdsmen’s confidence, Dogo suggested. In some places, like Kutura, the conflict has become detached from arguments over land altogether, taking on worrisome religious and ethnic dimensions. More than six weeks later, in February, he was still there, recovering. He said bandits were responsible for the deadly attack on Ungwan Barde, not herders. Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests. Some young men ventured out to defend the village but were overpowered and driven back. This Christmas season I had intended to engage in a critical investigation of religion given the powerful theological si... By Douglas Anele At this point, it is time to revert to the title of this essay which claims that it is futile to shame... By Denrele Animasaun ‘The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely x-ray socie... Gas, future oil of Nigeria, says Presidential aide. 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