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Suspected Fulani herdsmen have allegedly attacked and killed a couple at Tarkende Village, near Umenger in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. According to eyewitness accounts, the herdsmen had invaded ...

Gunmen have killed an Inspector of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Joseph Ochogwu, in Benue State. The Media Assistant to the Commandant General of the NSCDC in the state, ...

The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has narrated how he narrowly escaped death after suspected herdsmen shot at him in his farm. Ortom said he was shot while in his farm ...

Sadly, 19 Fulani herdsmen have been confirmed dead after engaging in a gunfight with Boko Haram terrorists targeting their cattle outside Fuhe Village near Ngala, close to the border with Cameroon. Anti-jihadist ...

Bandits, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, have reportedly kidnapped 14 bus passengers, including the driver, along Otan/Imesi-Ile road in Osun. According to reports, all the eighteen occupants of the bus were initially ...

Fulani herdsmen took to their heels after the 36 cows they took to graze at the mountain top of Ijare community in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State without permission from ...

Governors of South-East geopolitical zone have banned movement of herdsmen and cattle from one community to the other within the zone. This decision comes weeks after a Reverend father was murdered by ...

There was panic in Agbala in the Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State on Tuesday after a Fulani herdsman stabbed another following a quarrel. The attacker was also stabbed by ...

Insecurity: The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, wrote an open letter to President Buhari yesterday, July 21, 2019, over the insecurity explosion in different parts of the country. The Oyo monarch in ...

President of Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has condemned the labelling of the Fulani herdsmen as criminals. He alleged that the name-calling was being instigated by some ...

The Catholic Diocese of Enugu on Saturday confirmed the attack on Rev. Fr. Ikechukwu Ilo by Fulani herdsmen along Numeh- Nenwe road in the Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State. ...

Fulani herdsmen attack: Amid calls by Miyetti Allah Kautal Haure for Fulanis to remain in the South and defend themselves, the Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, have asked the herders to leave ...

Reverend Samson Ayokunle, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said that the ''hatred'' the Fulani herdsmen suffer now from Nigerians began when some elements in their group became ...

On Thursday, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi called for the tightening of security in the South-West by the Federal Government amid the increasing attacks by herdsmen on communities in the ...

CRIME - 46-year-old Thomas Wollo was killed and beheaded together with his 7-year-old son Nggwe Thomas on Sunday night by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tafigana village of Bassa Local Government Area of ...

Herdsmen to return to North - Members of the Northern Elders Forum and the Coalition of the Northern Groups have asked Fulani herdsmen to leave the southern part of Nigeria. They said ...

Fulani herdsmen have been caught by the people of Obudi Agwa Autonomous Community in Oguta Local Government Area, with one of them carrying a sack of bullets. The traditional ruler of the ...

A 58-year-old daughter of Afenifere leader, Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, has been killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, Tribune reports. The report quoted an eyewitness as saying the 58-year-old ...

Ruga Fulani herdsmen settlements - The office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has denied claims it supervises the establishment of cattle Fulani settlements known as “Ruga” in parts of the country. The ...

Former Chairman of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, now the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams has ordered Fulani marauders killing people in the Southwest to vacate Yorubaland now or face a ...