OVER 25 MILLION PHONES STOLEN IN ONE YEAR- FG. (PHOTO).

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 Over 25 million phones stolen in one year – FG The Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report of the National Bureau of Statistics, a Federal Government agency, shows that Nigeria recorded 25.35 million phone theft cases between May 2023 and April 2024. According to the report, this was the most common type of crime within the period under review. The report read, “The number of crimes experienced by individuals in Nigeria was analysed over a period of time. The results show that theft of phones (25,354,417) was the most common crime experienced by individuals, followed by consumer fraud (12,107,210) and assault (8,453,258). However, hijacking of cars (333,349) was the least crime experienced by individuals within the reference period.” It also noted that most phone theft cases occurred either at home or in a public place, and about 90 per cent of such cases were reported to the police. Despite the high rate of the incident being reported, only about 11.7 per cent of t...

ADOPT RANCHING TO STEM DOWN CLASHES, OKECHUKWU ADVISES TINUBU, JEGA. (PHOTO).


 Adopt ranching to stem down clashes, Okechukwu advises Tinubu, Jega


A foundation member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has advocated a modern ranching model of livestock as a panacea in addressing the existential threat to national unity, occasioned by frequent clashes between farmers and herders in different parts of the country.

This advocacy was contained in an open commendation letter made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, July 14, to the recently inaugurated Livestock Reform Implementation Committee (LRIC) co-chaired by President Bola Tinubu and Professor Attahiru Jega.

The former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) who hinged the dysfunctional status of many food basket communities in the country and the abysmal failure of the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), which gulped billions of Naira on farmers/herders clashes said modern ranching remains the answer.

Dismissing the grazing model, Okechukwu noted that the fundamental changes in the modern ranch model with features of complex top technologies and humane facilities like cattle cages, veterinary clinics, schools, and residential houses make a better option to the archaic grazing routes currently in use.

Okechukwu said: “President Bola Tinubu and Professor Attahiru Jega, co-chairmen of the Livestock Reform Implementation Committee in the interest of national unity, harmonious existence and prosperity to adopt modern ranch model as the solution provider to avoid roaming animals especially cattle that ravage crop farms.”

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The APC chieftain also commended Mr President for exploring a lasting solution to the farmers/herders’ existential pandemic which polarised our dear countrymen and bred unprecedented insecurity, uncountable loss of lives, abject poverty, and hunger.

He urged the President to finance the Renewed Hope Livestock Mega Project not only from the national emergency fund but to go ahead and borrow, if need be to fund modern ranches in voluntary states; as the loan, if prudently managed will repay itself.

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