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A social advocacy group, Benue Journalists’ Forum of Nigeria (BJFN), has raised the alarm that armed herdsmen and their sponsors were  allegedly planning a major attack on the Benue valley immediately after the Ramadan fast National President of the forum, Comrade Joseph...

Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari,  that Nigerians are fed up with the incessant killings across the country. Furthermore, Okogie warned that the president’s silence towards the killings showed that a cow is more valuable...

Fulani herdsmen have again struck at Machia village in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, killing five people and injuring many others. Chairman of the local government area, Richard Nyajo, who confirmed the report, said the shooting took place in a busy commercial area...

A coalition of pressure groups, yesterday, in Abuja called on the Federal Government to prescribe and designate killer herdsmen as a terrorist group. The groups, which protested on the streets of Abuja, said the prescription and designation of the killer herdsmen as a terrorist...

Palpable fear has gripped residents of Ogoja in the northern part of Cross River State following the arrival of a large number of Fulani in the community. The Fulani arrived Garki along Barracks Road in Ogoja at the weekend in two trucks from an unknown destination. Sources in...

At least 30 people were feared dead as a group of armed herdsmen, numbering over 400, attacked and burnt down five villages, Bolki, Bang, Nzumoso, Boki, and Gon, in Numan and Lamurde local government areas of Adamawa State, local sources told Daily Sun yesterday. The killers were...

Fulani herdsmen, at the early hours of today, stormed a Catholic church in Ayar town, Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State, killing two Reverend Fathers, a Catechist, and sixteen other faithful. The killer herdsmen attacked the church during early morning mass. The...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen at the weekend stormed   Onicha Olona in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State and butchered a man on his farm. Sunday Ojei Onwueze was slaughtered on his farm in a most bizarre manner.   The 47 -years -old Onwueze, a father of 5, according...

Herdsmen have shot dead a village head in a Chembe settlement in Ukemberagya/Tswarev ward of Giambi-Tiev Local  Government Area of Benue State, Chief Iyongovihi Ninge had gone to his farm when the armed herdsmen attacked the farmland with a large number of their cattle to graze....

Over 30 people have been killed in fresh attacks by suspected herdsmen in Jandeikyula village of Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. It was gathered that the hoodlums stormed the village around 7 pm on Wednesday, killing many people and injuring many others while houses...