Attacks in Nigeria’s Plateau state leave at least 30 dead
Maidiguri, Nigeria Reuters At least 30 people have been killed and several others injured in Nigeria’s central Plateau state in a series of attacks around Mangu town, despite a curfew imposed by the state government, a community spokesperson said. Farmer-herder attacks and communal conflicts are rife in central Nigeria, an ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland […]
Nigeria’s Rivers state police free 15 children abducted for trafficking
Yenagoa, NigeriaReuters Police in Nigeria’s Rivers state rescued 15 children who were abducted in order to be trafficked, police said in a statement on Tuesday. The children, ranging from four years to 15-years-old, were found with a 44-year-old woman claiming to be a nun in the southern state in Nigeria’s Delta region. Police arrested the […]
Gunmen kill 36 villagers in Nigeria’s divided Plateau state
Abuja, NigeriaReuters Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes. The gunmen went house to house killing residents in Yelwa Zangam late on Tuesday, a military spokesman said. Troops […]
Muslim Fulani herdsmen kill 13 Christians, wound three in central Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, last Wednesday, the same day four students were kidnapped from a Catholic seminary in Kaduna state. About 20 herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian village of Kulben, in Plateau state’s Mangu County, at about 8pm, area residents told Morning Star News. […]
Christian slain in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, 13 others killed in Plateau state
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a young Christian man after stopping him on a highway in Kaduna state on 5th October, while in Plateau state another 13 Christians have been slain in less than a month, sources said. Armed herdsmen stopped the vehicle of Bartholomew David, 23, and a female passenger shortly after […]
Violence continues in Nigeria but government in denial, church leaders say
World Watch Monitor A pregnant woman and a child were among four people killed in attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau State last week. The attackers targeted the villages of Ancha and Tafigana in the Bassa Local Government area, as reported by news site Nasoweseeamonline. A village in Southern Kaduna, located in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt”, after an […]
“Emerging crisis” as thousands flee rising farmer-herder violence in Nigeria
Thomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of people have been uprooted by a recent surge in violence between farmers and herders in central Nigeria that may spiral further, aid workers and analysts said on Wednesday. Nomadic herdsmen and local farmers have for decades clashed over land and resources in the West African country, but fighting […]
Death toll from weekend of violence in Nigeria’s Plateau state more than 200, not 86 originally claimed, say sources
The death toll from those killed in a weekend of violence in Nigeria’s Plateau state is much higher than the officially released figure of 86, sources have told Morning Star News. That was the figure released by police in Jos following the attacks on Saturday. But the news agency said based on information from residents […]
Fulani Christians call for peace as violence continues in Nigeria’s Plateau state
World Watch Monitor Rev Buba Aliyu (right), to Chief Ronku Aka (left): “We have come to condole with the entire Irigwe chiefdom, the Plateau people and Nigeria as a country.” PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Fulani Christians in Nigeria have spoken out against the persistent attacks and killings attributed to Fulani herdsmen in the central state […]
Muslim Fulani herdsmen massacre 20 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria
Morning Star News Muslim Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria’s Plateau state massacred 20 Christians, including children, as they slept in the hours after midnight on Friday in an apparent reprisal attack that mystified villagers, sources said Police reportedly said the attack was an act of vengeance after the discovery last week of a slain and […]