FARMERS-NORMADS

The need for national development in Nigeria at this crucial time cannot be overstated in order to foster peaceful co-existence and national integration. Peace as well as nation building is an element that promotes unity, non-violence, economic growth and human development. However, the Farmers-herders menace that has been prevalent in some parts of Nigeria seems to make the concept of peace and national development a wild goose chase. As Okereke (2012) observed, all over the world (particularly majority of the third world countries and the Middle East) there has been a surge in the rate of violence, kidnapping, insurgencies, vandalism, rape, unemployment, terrorist attacks, cultism, and armed robbery, etc. The Nigeria state has had its fair share in this global challenge with the trend worsened by the spate of farmers-herders crisis. The armed Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria have destroyed many lives and properties worth millions of naira while influx of people have been rendered homeless