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Suspected herdsmen have killed 16 persons during an attack on Ebete community in Agatu local government area of Benue state. The herders were said to have attacked the community at 1am on Wednesday, opening fire on residents and setting houses ablaze. Adeyemi Yekini, force commander, Operation...

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The family of Gabriel Mmadu of Umunebo village, Ogbunka in Orumba South local government area of Anambra state is still counting its losses following their recent gruesome and near-death experience in the hands of kidnappers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. Orient Weekend gathered that Mr...

Suspected Fulani gunmen kill pregnant woman, rape others in Nasarawa Suspected Fulani … Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2MBnpYT Get More Nigeria Metro News

Again, suspected herdsmen, yesterday, ambushed military personnel, on surveillance in Guma Local Council Area of Benue State, killing one soldier and leaving two others injured. It was gathered that the incidence took... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2MCi6by Get More Nigeria...

Suspected herdsmen have killed three persons in an attack on Zanwra village in Miango district of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Mathias Tyopev, confirmed the incident and the death figure to Channels Television on Saturday...

The Nigeria Police has reportedly ordered the immediate withdrawal of Mobile Policeman, otherwise known as MOPOL currently on special duties in Benue State. The officers, who were earlier sent to the state to curb the clashes between farmers and herdsmen, have been asked to return to their...

The two surviving kidnappers and murderers of Fr John Adeyi have been sentenced to death by hanging by a Makurdi High Court on Wednesday 25th July 2018. Father Adeyi, the Vicar General of Catholic Diocese of Otukpo and Parish Priest of Catholic Church Okpoga, was in 2016 kidnapped by unknown...

David Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the killings in the country. Hundreds of Nigerians across different states have been killed since the turn of the year. The most recent of such attacks was in Plateau where more than 100...

The Presidency, yesterday, charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts. READ MORE HERE

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When the alarm was raised, many thought it was false, some were complacent, calling it an ethnic crisis. But bit by bit, the fear became a reality; the subtle attacks which began over a decade ago have seen native communities in Plateau State taken over by invading herders. READ MORE HERE

Premium Times has sacked its Jos-based reporter, Andrew Ajijah over a false story credited to Miyetti Allah on the mayhem in Plateau in which 100 people were killed. READ MORE HERE

According to Okogie, Buhari has done nothing to stop the attacks by Fulani herdsmen in different parts of the country. Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie has written an open letter to President Buhari on the killings in Plateau state. The Priest, in the … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s...

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has lambasted Fulani lawmakers in the National Assembly for failing to protect the interest of herdsmen. READ MORE HERE

Plateau Killings: 5000 Displaced Persons Starve In IDP Camps Posted by Akham Papa on June 29, 2018 under Naija News 0 No fewer than 5000 persons displaced by the recent attacks in some villages in Plateau State where over 200 persons … Read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s Most Visited Music...

It’s easy to focus on how people are divided along tribal and religious lines, but several people are out there who aren’t letting these differences stop them from seeing the humanity in others. One of them is this imam from the village of Nghar Yelwa in Plateau State, who saved 262 Christians...

The presidency, describing the opposition party People’s Democratic Party (PDP)‘s declaration of 7 days of mourning for the Plateau killings as “irresponsible politics,” has listed the killings carried out during the party’s rule. READ MORE HERE