Tag: Kaduna

Nigeria: Stop ‘rumour mongering’ that led to Kaduna violence, says church leader

October 23, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nigeria

A vigilante walks through the village of Bakin Kogi, in Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria, where four people were killed in an attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen in February 2018. (Photo: Getty Images)

A senior church leader in Nigeria has said that “rumour mongering” was at the heart of last week’s violence in north-western Kaduna state, which killed 55 people, reports Nigeria’s Daily Post. Following the violence a curfew was imposed. The Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna, Rev. Mathew Ndagoso, urged citizens to refrain . . . Read More

Archbishop of Canterbury raises profile of Nigeria attacks as new humanitarian crisis looms

July 19, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kogi, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sahel, Taraba, West Africa

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has challenged the British government on how much it is doing to help end violent attacks on Christians in Nigeria. His comments, made in a House of Lords debate on Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram on Tuesday (17 July), follow the publication of a . . . Read More

Fulani violence against Nigeria Christians hits record high

May 25, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Catholics, Children, Dapchi, Education, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Lagos, Leah Sharibu, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Taraba

Catholics protest in Kaduna state on 22 May, 2018.

Violence attributed to militant Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria has reached a record high this year. The Governor of the central state of Benue said this week that 492 people have been killed in his state alone so far this year. Governor Samuel Ortom was speaking 22 May at the mass . . . Read More

Bloody clashes in Kaduna as Christian youths resist dating and conversion of Christian girls

March 8, 2018 Nigeria Christian Association of Nigeria, Kaduna, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Clashes over the forceful conversion of Christian girls to Islam has left 12 people dead in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna. Several others sustained injuries from gunshots and machetes, while dozens of shops, houses and vehicles were set ablaze in the Kasuwan Magani Community of Kajuru Local Government Area. . . . Read More

Nigeria: 7 more killed in violence attributed to Fulani herdsmen

February 13, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Muhammadu Buhari, Plateau

Since 2017 conflicts between Nigeria's herders and farmers have become increasingly violent and deadly, says Amnesty. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

At least seven people were killed on Sunday (11 February) as violence attributed to Fulani herdsmen continued in Nigeria, local news site This Day reported. In Kaduna State, four people were hacked to death in Bakin Kogi village, of Jama’a local government area. The victims were returning from their farms, . . . Read More

Nigerian bishops accuse government of failing to protect citizens from ‘terrorist’ herdsmen

February 9, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Taraba, Terrorism

Nigeria’s Catholic bishops have told President Muhammadu Buhari that attacks attributed to members of the Fulani pastoralist tribe have been carried out by “terrorists masquerading as herdsmen” and accused the government of being “incapable or unwilling” to protect citizens from them. A delegation of 11 bishops delivered a strongly worded . . . Read More

Report: ‘Islamic war of expansion’ underpins ‘religious cleansing’ in southern Kaduna, Nigeria

January 15, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nigeria

A new report highlights Nigeria’s failed attempts, over decades, to deal with the violence perpetrated by Fulani Muslim herdsmen in one of the country’s Middle Belt states. It concludes that continued failings will force Christians to leave the area in a “religious cleansing” that is part of a drive for . . . Read More

Nigeria’s New Year begins with attacks on Christians

January 4, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kwara, Muhammadu Buhari, Omuku, Rivers State

In Nigeria, the New Year celebrations were marked by incidents which claimed dozen lives across the country. According to local sources and media, the attacks were carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen or Muslim youths, who targeted Christian worshippers. The attacks affected the volatile Middle Belt states (Benue, Kaduna), epicenter . . . Read More

Nigerian government has failed to counteract violence of Fulani herdsmen – ICG report

September 21, 2017 Nigeria Agatu, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

In Nigeria, it isn’t only the northeast regions, stronghold of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, that have witnessed severe violence. The Middle Belt of the country, which straddles the divide between the largely Muslim north and the majority-Christian south, is also the scene of ever-continuing violence between settled farmers, . . . Read More

Nigeria: when Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash

September 11, 2017 Nigeria Benue, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria

Fulani cattle herds in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, July 2016 (Open Doors International)

Many experts on Nigeria now believe that violence across the Middle Belt, which World Watch Monitor has reported at length, has been responsible for more deaths than Boko Haram. As Emmanuel Akinwotu wrote last year in the New Statesman, the conflict – between ‘indigenous’ settled farmers (mainly Christian) and nomadic . . . Read More

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