The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate and First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Senator Barau Jibrin, has urged the regional body to learn from Nigeria’s experience with farmer-herder conflicts and the humanitarian crisis they have generated.
Nembe Exploration and Production Company Limited, operator of Oil Mining Lease 29 (OML 29), has accused the Bayelsa State Government of unjustly linking it to the deadly communal violence between Dieama and Okpoama communities, demanding an immediate retraction of the announcement associating the company with the crisis.