{"id":167863,"date":"2025-07-01T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:04:58","slug":"tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Can Resolve Farmers-Herders Crisis Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Livestock Reforms, Prof Attahiru Jega, has expressed confidence in the president\u2019s capacity to end Nigeria\u2019s long-standing farmers-herders crisis if the right reforms are implemented with support from relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Jega stated this at a distinguished personality lecture with the theme: The Political Economy of Livestock Development in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects, at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Kwara State, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture was part of activities commemorating the university\u2019s 50th anniversary and was held in honour of Senator Saliu Mustapha.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) described the increasing clashes between farmers and herders as a product of worsening land pressure, climate change, and poor governance of natural resources, issues that need to be tackled as part of broader livestock sector reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu has demonstrated the willingness and capacity to solve this crisis. What is needed now is stakeholder support, especially from the National Assembly, security agencies, and state actors, to implement evidence-based reforms,\u201d he said.<\/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. Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Livestock Reforms, Prof Attahiru Jega, has expressed confidence in the president\u2019s capacity to end Nigeria\u2019s long-standing farmers-herders crisis if the right reforms are implemented with support from relevant stakeholders. Jega stated this at a distinguished personality lecture with the theme: The Political Economy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1216,254,945],"class_list":["post-167863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-jega","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"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>Tinubu Can Resolve Farmers-Herders Crisis Jega - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Livestock Reforms, Prof Attahiru Jega, has expressed confidence in the ...\" \/>\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\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu Can Resolve Farmers-Herders Crisis Jega\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Livestock Reforms, Prof Attahiru Jega, has expressed confidence in the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-01T08:50:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-01T10:04:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751351051.409538.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\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\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu Can Resolve Farmers-Herders Crisis Jega\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-01T08:50:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-01T10:04:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751351051.409538.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Jega\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-can-resolve-farmers-herders-crisis-jega\",\"name\":\"Tinubu Can Resolve Farmers-Herders Crisis Jega - 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