{"id":156962,"date":"2025-03-27T21:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:03:14","slug":"nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Senate testing Open grazing law while others advance \u2013 Activist, Agberen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Right activist, Derrick Agberen has accused the Nigerian Senate of still testing the\u201dOpen Grazing Law\u201d when other countries who are beneficiaries of the nation\u2019s natural resources, have advanced in protecting human rights and mastered animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Agberen lamented that in the midst of government\u2019s misplaced priorities, Nigerian citizens remain impoverished, with none of these laws proving effective.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent in Warri, \u201cIn recent times, the situation has escalated, resulting in clashes between herders and various communities in Southern, Eastern, and Western Nigeria, leading to numerous fatalities, pain, and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agberen noted that, \u201cSince inception, the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has been a tactical arm employed by the Federal Government to distract Nigerians by moving from one bill to another for 8 years without successfully passing any of them into law as far as it concerns the well-being of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost times, one would wonder if these characters we see on national television are stage-managed, considering the level of seriousness displayed while citizens continue to debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, the Nigerian Senate deliberated on legislation to prohibit phonographic sites in Nigeria amidst severe insecurity challenges and extreme poverty levels affecting the populace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He queried,\u201dWho has programmed us in this manner has caused more harm than the actions of the national assembly representatives. Things we ought to take seriously as a people, we joke over them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery soon, Burkina Faso will become another foreign destination for some of us, while Nigerian politicians will continue to toss us back and forth with no meaningful change if citizens continue in this direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Right activist, Derrick Agberen has accused the Nigerian Senate of still testing the\u201dOpen Grazing Law\u201d when other countries who are beneficiaries of the nation\u2019s natural resources, have advanced in protecting human rights and mastered animal welfare. Agberen lamented that in the midst of government\u2019s misplaced priorities, Nigerian citizens remain impoverished, with none [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":156961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[11015,254,14381,16589],"class_list":["post-156962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-agberen","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-senate","tag-open-grazing-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Senate testing Open grazing law while others advance \u2013 Activist, Agberen - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Right activist, Derrick Agberen has accused the Nigerian Senate of still testing the\u201dOpen Grazing Law\u201d when other countr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Senate testing Open grazing law while others advance \u2013 Activist, Agberen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Right activist, Derrick Agberen has accused the Nigerian Senate of still testing the\u201dOpen Grazing Law\u201d when other countr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-27T20:18:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T13:03:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1743097788.333101.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"727\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"465\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Senate testing Open grazing law while others advance \u2013 Activist, Agberen\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-27T20:18:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T13:03:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen\"},\"wordCount\":289,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1743097788.333101.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Agberen\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigerian Senate\",\"Open-grazing law\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senate-testing-open-grazing-law-while-others-advance-activist-agberen\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Senate testing Open grazing law while others advance \u2013 Activist, Agberen - 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