President Bola Tinubu has indicated readiness to end the perennial farmers, herders’ clashes in Nigeria. He promised to draw up programmes that would end the problem within three weeks.
  
The President gave the assurance yesterday at the inauguration of a mechanised agricultural project in Minna, Niger State. He said state governors should provide lands to facilitate his scheme. His words: “We must reorient our farming population, including livestock programmes.
  
“I don’t see why Nigeria can’t feed all our pupils with one pint of milk a day if the dairy system is well harnessed.“I know what it means as an economic sabotage for cows to eat up the crops and vegetation of our land.
  
“When we reorient the herders and make provisions for cattle rearing, governors must provide the land and I, as the President, is committed to giving you, in two to three weeks’ time, a comprehensive programme that will solve this problem.”
   
The President, who equally commissioned the remodelled domestic terminal at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport and laid foundation of the hajj terminal in Minna, lauded Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago for leading the way in the agricultural revolution and urged others to key into the policy.
  
He also disclosed that the Federal Government will soon commence the student loan and social security schemes for the elderly, vulnerable and weak.
   
The Nigerian leader, therefore, appealed to state governors to start paying the wage awards pending determination of a new minimum wage to reduce the hardship in the country.  He implied that if the states had implemented the awards, it would have provided the much-needed relief without causing inflationary pressures.
   
Tinubu stated that all states need to adopt the initiative, adding that the National Executive Council would also adopt it.He said: “Let all the states start paying the wage awards. Whatever they are taking now plus the wage awards would relieve the public.”
  
“Please, I am not giving an order. I am only appealing to you states to do the needful.”