The current nomadic grazing by the Fulani herdsmen should be outlawed. The Senate should be passing a law to ban this practice for the following reasons:

1) The practice is dirty and unhealthy and leads to spreading of diseases due to the unsanitary dumping of animal and human faeces by the nomads and their animals.
2) Nomadic cattle rearing has no long term future. Ranching is the way to go. The earlier ranching is enforced the better.
3) Will eliminate the destruction of valuable crops
4) Will eliminate the conflicts between the crop farmers and the herdsmen.
5) Will reduce the violent crimes of armed robbery and r.ap.es known to be perpetrated by the herdsmen.

We have more cows in america and canada than nigeria, and i don't think they have herdsmen who move about with the cows. The ranch system is the best. Let our agric minister and govt help nigerians import these high breeds of cows from these developed countries that can be raised in ranches so that even ordinary people in the south can rear their own cows for beef. It's high time we stopped leaving the production of beef and hides & skin in the hands of the fulanis. The fulanis too need to embrace agric technology especially in the area of raising and rearing cattles.

The fulanis place more premium on a cattle lives than human lives. What is this roaming around in the name of nomadic cattle rearing? Mtchewwww

why not keep your mouth shut.. they have the right like you people to live anywhere they want... I dont know why you people alway support hate..

how to fix the problem is better railway service.. when the rail use to be good. they use it.. but the rails are not good.. what do you expect. do you blame them... they have to make a living. it is hard for them to control the cows.

the need to have an effective rail service.

they dont have to travel with the cattle. if the govt help them.. the govt is not helping agric or farmers.. it is just talk and talk.

farms cant get loans.. Niger delta militia are the one getting loan. Nigerian are upset.

musiwa...:
why not keep your mouth shut.. they have the right like you people to live anywhere they want... I dont know why you people alway support hate..

how to fix the problem is better railway service.. when the rail use to be good. they use it.. but the rails are not good.. what do you expect. do you blame them... they have to make a living. it is hard for them to control the cows.

the need to have an effective rail service.

they dont have to travel with the cattle. if the govt help them.. the govt is not helping agric or farmers.. it is just talk and talk.

farms cant get loans.. Niger delta militia are the one getting loan. Nigerian are upset.

What do they need the rail for? Transporting the cows from their ranches to market? Or migrating from one state to the other causing problems in the name of searching for grazing land? If it's transporting the cows to the market, I doubt that will be a big issue. Once all cattle farmers are contained in their ranches, there'll be business for transporting the meat to other parts of the country. And no doubt people will rise to the occasion- using trucks if no rail yet.
Nomadic cattle rearing is primitive and has no future.
What are the Northern state governors doing with their allocation? What is the Agric Minister, who has almost always been a Northerner, been up to? What are the Northern senators doing? All these people should be dealing with the task of re-educating the Northerners and funding them for ranching. And they can get loans if they ask. I've never heard the Fulani Cattle rearers group or union ever ask for funding on ranching. Northerners should hold their State govts accountable for this, not look for freebies from the FG all the time.

I wonder what the excess land in the north is for. They should start creating very large settlements in the north instead of roaming the whole country and causing havoc.

Yes indeed...

If they do, then these Illegal immigrant, Normadic cattlefucking, terrorists that call themselves fulanis would realize that their is no room for them in Nigeria and migrate back to chad and Niger where they came from..

Infact, they should make Normadic farming illegal and then make gun laws that allow us to shoot Normads that enter our lands.. That way, Fulanis will become an endangered specie and leave Nigeria!!

hammedkola: [size=30pt]NO...It's also farming, or who told you crude oil isn't gonna finish?[/size]

Yeah!!

Crude oil will finish in another 200 years and we have enough gas to last us over 500 years.. Okay!! Good!!

In what century are we?

musiwa...:
why not keep your mouth shut.. they have the right like you people to live anywhere they want... I dont know why you people alway support hate..

how to fix the problem is better railway service.. when the rail use to be good. they use it.. but the rails are not good.. what do you expect. do you blame them... they have to make a living. it is hard for them to control the cows.

the need to have an effective rail service.

they dont have to travel with the cattle. if the govt help them.. the govt is not helping agric or farmers.. it is just talk and talk.

farms cant get loans.. Niger delta militia are the one getting loan. Nigerian are upset.

Musiwa has always been dumb. Will grass grow in the railway coaches to feed the cattle?

There shuld be a path void of farmlands designated for them...and dats if they will comply...cos their wahala sef don taya me.They ar everywhere!!!

Stallion77: There shuld be a path void of farmlands designated them...and dats if they will comply...cos their wahala sef don taya me.They ar everywhere!!!

Which path should be designated and designated by whom? Why must they roam about when they should be in ranches?

The Fulanis are the problem of Nigeria. Make Normadic Farming illegal and permit us to lynch any Fulani found trespassing (a lot of people will gladly do it without demanding salary).

It should not be banned, so many families of the Nomads depends on it for livelihood.

Ban the Shege!

Fulani are not the only cow owners in Nigeria.

There are successful cattle ranches all over the country..

If they cannot afford to buy land for ranching, let them sell their cattle and use the money to repatriate themselves to futa djallon or wherever they come from...

TroGunn:

Which path should be designated and designated by whom? Why must they roam about when they should be in ranches?

Am not against the govt banning them...however we shuld consider that this is wat they know how to do best if not for the danger they pose. Ranch wuld not be a bad idea but there shuld be a task force to enforce it.

Stallion77:

Am not against the govt banning them...however we shuld consider that this is wat they know how to do best if not for the danger they pose. Ranch wuld be a bad idea but there shuld be a task force to enforce it.

So they should be left to roam the land trampling peoples farms and killing innocents abi?

Bloody fulani sympathaizer...

As the desert encroaches, so will these cattle Fulani move southwards killing and maiming. That is the situation causing the conflict in Plateau. The Fulanis ruled this country for decades and had plenty of time to mold it into one properous Nation to prepare for desert encroachment. Instead they clung to Islam and Feudalism. They "Isha Allah" away problems that need critical thinking and competence. When the results of their incompetence starts biting, they simply start seizing and killing off people around them. Other peoples lives and property mean nothing to them it seems. Look at their leadership braying for Niger Delta oil day and night. They succeeded in returning Nigeria to the stone age.

Billyonaire: It should not be banned, so many families of the Nomads depends on it for livelihood.

Haba Bilyonaire. No one is asking for them to lose their cows, they should just rear their cows in a ranch instead of roaming about. They can always come together to form a bigger unit and buy land for a ranch.

TroGunn: The current nomadic grazing by the Fulani herdsmen should be outlawed. The Senate should be passing a law to ban this practice for the following reasons:

1) The practice is dirty and unhealthy and leads to spreading of diseases due to the unsanitary dumping of animal and human faeces by the nomads and their animals.

While point number 2 is so on point and preferable, I beg to differ on point no 1.
Ever heard of fertilizer? If these fulanis and their traducers are money conscious,smart and learned,
All the oordure being expunged by their cattle wld b gathered and sold to the farmers, who wld in turn purchase 'em to use as fertilizers for their produce.This wld look like a food chain thingy. Instead,their jelly-fish brains are causing havoc and wanton loss of lives and destruction of property.
But like u rightly said, Ranching is best suitable @ the moment!

People maniufest crass ignorance when ever they talk,gov.that cannot maintain its apparatus nepa,textiles etc will not be able to maintain the ranches,likewise, even in the usa they prefer naturally gown meat than these hybrid which breeds mad cow disease,cancers etc.it is also on record that the owners of these cows are mostly our politicians,obj,ibb,buhari,most present and ex sen./govs. So where are we here?

Dudes talkn of ranches. U tink is all abt d money? Nah. Der is more to it. Rearing s part of their tradition/culture. For u info. Some dnt evn sell bt jst doin it 2 practice dia culture. Smtimes u see a rich fulani man in d city,bt bck home he has many cows nt for busines,bt 2 kep d tradition of his forefathers goin.Tel me how many farmers in igbo or yoruba land practice mechanise farming?

Dudes talkn of ranches. U tink is all abt d money? Nah. Der is more to it. Rearing s part of their tradition/culture. For u info. Some dnt evn sell bt jst doin it 2 practice dia culture. Smtimes u see a rich fulani man in d city,bt bck home he has many cows nt for busines,bt 2 kep d tradition of his forefathers goin.Tel me how many farmers in igbo or yoruba land practice mechanise farming? Al dis westernis ppl sef

DICKtator:

While point number 2 is so on point and preferable, I beg to differ on point no 1.
Ever heard of fertilizer? If these fulanis and their traducers are money conscious,smart and learned,
All the oordure being expunged by their cattle wld b gathered and sold to the farmers, who wld in turn purchase 'em to use as fertilizers for their produce.This wld look like a food chain thingy. Instead,their jelly-fish brains are causing havoc and wanton loss of lives and destruction of property.
But like u rightly said, Ranching is best suitable @ the moment!

That's on point. The cow dung, instead of being an eyesore everywhere, could be used for farming or even grassing their ranch.

they wont ban nomadic farming because the fulanis are presently the only ones rearing cattles or let me ask, is any ethnic group ready to rear cattles by any modern means? Unless some people are ready to go into cattle rearin by ranchin d fulanis might not change. U cant just wake up and outlaw nomadic cattle rearing without an option in place because the fulanis are the only ones instrested in rearin cattles.

Megabyts: People maniufest crass ignorance when ever they talk,gov.that cannot maintain its apparatus nepa,textiles etc will not be able to maintain the ranches,likewise, even in the usa they prefer naturally gown meat than these hybrid which breeds mad cow disease,cancers etc.it is also on record that the owners of these cows are mostly our politicians,obj,ibb,buhari,most present and ex sen./govs. So where are we here?

Why would govt maintain ranches? Is govt maintaining crop farms for crop farmers?

TroGunn:

Why would govt maintain ranches? Is govt maintaining crop farms for crop farmers?

Wonderful perspective...

musiwa...:
why not keep your mouth shut.. they have the right like you people to live anywhere they want... I dont know why you people alway support hate..

how to fix the problem is better railway service.. when the rail use to be good. they use it.. but the rails are not good.. what do you expect. do you blame them... they have to make a living. it is hard for them to control the cows.

the need to have an effective rail service.

they dont have to travel with the cattle. if the govt help them.. the govt is not helping agric or farmers.. it is just talk and talk.

farms cant get loans.. Niger delta militia are the one getting loan. Nigerian are upset.

Have u lived in china before?

hammedkola: [size=30pt]NO...It's also farming, or who told you crude oil isn't gonna finish?[/size]

the argument is between nomadic and ranching, nobody is saying cattle rearing has to stop entirely