Tag: Plateau

Nigeria: herders’ attacks completely decimate villages in ‘scorched earth’ campaigns

July 27, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Yobe

Catholics protest in Kaduna state on 22 May, 2018.

In Nigeria, conflict between farmers and herders has become the country’s gravest security challenge, claiming six times more lives than the Boko Haram insurgency, the International Crisis Group (ICG) says in a report published yesterday. The report, ‘Stopping Nigeria’s Spiralling Farmer-Herder Conflict’, says that more than 1,300 people were killed . . . Read More

Archbishop of Canterbury raises profile of Nigeria attacks as new humanitarian crisis looms

July 19, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kogi, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sahel, Taraba, West Africa

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has challenged the British government on how much it is doing to help end violent attacks on Christians in Nigeria. His comments, made in a House of Lords debate on Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram on Tuesday (17 July), follow the publication of a . . . Read More

Buhari renews pledge to protect Nigerians as killings continue

July 6, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Benue, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Zamfara

The Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to end the killings in the restive regions of the Middle Belt, amidst growing pressure to deal with the situation. A spate of attacks over three days – from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June – left more than 200 dead in 11 . . . Read More

Nigerian Christians refute claims herdsmen killings were retaliatory, as Plateau violence reaches new peak

June 28, 2018 Nigeria APC, Berom, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

In central Nigeria, clashes between predominantly Christian farmers and mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen reached another peak in Plateau over the weekend, as suspected herdsmen went on a killing spree in a dozen villages, leaving scores dead. Early reports suggested that 86 people were killed, but local sources contacted by World . . . Read More

Nigerian pastor says security services threatened to kill him after Muslim woman’s conversion to Christianity

June 6, 2018 Nigeria Christian Association of Nigeria, Islamic extremism, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

The Nigerian pastor who played a central role in the conversion of a young Muslim woman to Christianity has denounced the response of the country’s security services, from which he alleges he has received death threats. The first response of the Nigerian Department of State Security Services (DSS), in January, . . . Read More

Fulani violence against Nigeria Christians hits record high

May 25, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Catholics, Children, Dapchi, Education, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Lagos, Leah Sharibu, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Taraba

Violence attributed to militant Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria has reached a record high this year. The Governor of the central state of Benue said this week that 492 people have been killed in his state alone so far this year. Governor Samuel Ortom was speaking 22 May at the mass . . . Read More

Dozens killed in spate of violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt

March 14, 2018 Nigeria African Union, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

Three more villages in Bassa Local Government Area (LGA), in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, have come under attack today, 14 March, as Fulani herdsmen continue their killing spree in the country’s volatile Middle Belt. The violence has claimed some 57 lives over the last two weeks alone. The assailants, identified . . . Read More

Nigeria: 7 more killed in violence attributed to Fulani herdsmen

February 13, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Muhammadu Buhari, Plateau

Since 2017 conflicts between Nigeria's herders and farmers have become increasingly violent and deadly, says Amnesty. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

At least seven people were killed on Sunday (11 February) as violence attributed to Fulani herdsmen continued in Nigeria, local news site This Day reported. In Kaduna State, four people were hacked to death in Bakin Kogi village, of Jama’a local government area. The victims were returning from their farms, . . . Read More

Nigeria: 75 killed in renewed Fulani attacks on Christian community in Plateau

February 5, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

No fewer than 75 corpses have been recovered following a string of attacks by Fulani herdsmen on the predominantly Christian community of Miango, in the Bassa local government area of Plateau state, central Nigeria. Jerry Datim, a religious leader from the area, told World Watch Monitor that the first attack . . . Read More

New IS branch discovered in Nigeria, as UK archbishop calls for end to violence

January 25, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Justin Welby, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Terrorism

A village head inside his destroyed home in one of the villages in Southern Kaduna that were attacked by Fulani herdsmen, in May 2017. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has called for an end to the ongoing violence in Nigeria. His statement comes as a new terrorist network has been discovered in the country – IS in West Africa (ISWA) – which recruits foreigners to act as Fulani herdsmen and attack local communities. . . . Read More

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