Tag Archives: fulani herdsmen

The spokesman for the Defence HQ, Brig Gen John Agim, has said the killings in Benue are being sponsored, PUNCH reports. The military’s assertion was made on Thursday, April 26. However, he stated that the killer herdsmen and their sponsors would soon ...

No fewer than 35 persons have been killed and several others still missing after suspected herdsmen attacked Tse Umenger in Mbadwem Council Ward of Guma LGA, Benue State. Media sources indicated that heavily armed men, numbering over 50, stormed the ...

Two Catholic priests, Fathers Joseph Gor and Felix Tyolaha were brutally murdered on Tuesday morning in Ukpo-Mbalom, Makurdi Diocese, by suspected Fulani herdsmen. The killings took place at St. Ignatius Catholic Church Ayar – Mbalom in Makurdi Diocese of Nigeria. About 15 of their parishioners ...

Two soldiers, two mobile policemen and about 23 others were on Wednesday killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen during a fierce battle at Dung Kasa, Rafiki and Dutse Kura communities in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. Two civilians were ...

Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Socio-cultural Association, has warned against any attempt to remove President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. Speaking with The Sun, Bodejo said the eyes of the Fulanis all over the country were ‘opened,’ ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, are currently meeting inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This is the first time the two leaders will meet since the recent killings recorded in the state. The governor arrived ...

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed a traditional ruler and his pregnant wife in the southern part of Kaduna state. Gambo Makama, the Etum Numana, and his wife were said to have been killed in Arak, his hometown in ...

For years, men marauding as Fulani herdsmen have attacked harmless farming communities in the middle belt, and southern parts of Nigeria, killing innocent men women and children. They burn down entire villages and rip pregnant women open, yet there has been ...

Some Fulani herdsmen and Muslim leaders were seen, praying at graveyards of their members  in Jema’a, southern Kaduna, alleged to have been killed by Christians. I don’t know but these men by the graveside paint a different picture of what ...

The Federal Capital Territory has started a major wipe out on cattle movement in the streets of Abuja. This is happening after residents held a protest that the animals constitute a nuisance and poses a threat to their healthy living. ...

Both of them are Christians from Kagoro in Southern Kaduna Kaura LGA, and were nabbed and lead to all the villages.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on FCT, Dino Melaye, yesterday asked residents of the FCT to, henceforth, slaughter straying cows found in the city. He said this when the Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello, appeared before the committee ‎yesterday ...

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have reportedly killed a Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Unguwan Anjo, near Godogodo in Jema’a LGA, Kaduna State. According to reports, Pastor Luka Ubangari was ambushed, shot and killed while on ...

In mid-April, 2016, soldiers of the Guards Brigade of the Nigerian Army arrested 92 Fulani herdsmen in Abuja. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations of the brigade, Captain Bashir Jajira, after the arrest, had revealed that 36 of the suspects ...

A 20-year-old farmer, Mr. Nasiru Mohammed, has been allegedly stabbed to death following an altercation over crops with Fulani herdsman at Angwan Arimi in Bassa village area of Kokona Local Government of Nasarawa State. The Commandant of the Nigeria Security ...

I’ve just been informed that Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed a young man in his farm at Dagbala village in Akoko Edo, Edo State. According to eyewitness reports, six Fulani herdsmen fully armed with AK-47 weapons stormed the man’s farm ...

Assailants suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Friday evening invaded Oke Ako in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State killing two people and injuring three. The assailants, numbering about 20, stormed the sleeping town around 8 p.m and unleashed ...

Some armed herdsmen attacked the man pictured here while he was fetching firewood in a bush in Enugu state recently. Narrating what happened, the man said he had finished cutting woods in the bush and was putting it inside his car ...

Nigerians living in the United Kingdom have gathered in front of Westminster Parliament in London shouting…. ‪#‎NoGrazingBill‬! ‪#‎BuhariStopMassacre‬! ‪#‎CameronTellHimToDoTheRightThing‬! This they have done to protest against the Fulani Herdsmens who have carried out wanton killings of people in the middle belt ...

Twitter User @TerverGyer has shared astonishing before & after photos of a farm ravaged by Fulani cattle in Abuja. According to him, Fulani herdsmen opened the fence to his neighbor’s farm and allowed their cows to feed on the crops. They ...

A prominent cleric, and President of World Harvest Ministries Incorporative, Arch –Bishop Leonard Bature Kawas, has vowed to take up the brutal killings of Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen by informing world media. On March 5, 2016, Kawas wrote on his Facebook wall; ...

When diamonds began causing so much death of Africans, Europeans and Americans banned it calling it “blood diamonds” and made it a crime and moral wrong to buy, use or trade in them. Fulanis, speaking to Arase the IGP said ...

My attention has been drawn to the gory killings of about a dozen innocent children in Benue State in the middle belt region of Nigeria. On Tuesday March 1st,  suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked Okoloko village in Agatu Local Government Area of ...

The Association of Fulani Chiefs and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN have said a former Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, was not kidnapped by genuine Fulani herdsmen. The Chairman of MACBAN, Ondo ...

After three days in the den of kidnappers, the former Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF) Chief Olu Falae, on Thursday afternoon regained freedom. Falae, who is a Chieftain of Afenifere, was abducted on Monday afternoon by suspected herdsmen ...

Olu Falae has just returned home to a rousing reception. The recently abducted chief and former secretary to the government of the federation was personally escorted by the Police IG Solomon Arase and other top police officers as crowd of ...

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has been kidnapped by gunmen on Monday on his farm at Ilado village in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. The incident occurred on the ...

I must warn you, the photo you’re about to see are very graphic and disturbing. Just viewing them upset me in no small measure and I feel in my own little way, I must lend my voice to speak out ...

On June 29, 2015, an Igbo business man, Chijoke Ngwu Ogbodo, who is a native of Nkanu LGA, Enugu State was gruesomely murdered along with his wife in Katsina by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herds men. The couple were ...

These gruesome photos were shared by a Facebook user who is a native of Plateau State, Nigeria and he wrote: “Now Plateau people wake up, prepare and head to their farms with the sole aim of contributing their own share ...