On Monday morning (August 4) the herdsman from Hurani said he killed a Christian woman in a village in Plateau Province, Nigeria, and the latest of 17 Christian women killed in the area since July 15th.
The herdsmen attacked the Njin village around 10am, said resident Dorcas Ishaya.
“The Fulani herdsmen are working on that again,” Ishaya said in a message to Star News for Christian Daily International Morning. “This morning, at 10am on Monday, August 4th, they attacked the village of njin in the Kopumur region of Chief Muslim Rei, Boccos Local Government Area in Plateau province, killing a Christian woman.”
Area resident Ezekiel Tong was added to the message that the attacker took his property and torched it.
“These herdsmen not only attacked the villages, they also carried livestock away from Christian homes,” Tong said. “Many homes were burned out and many Christians were evacuated.”
Nigerian troops reportedly were sent to the area.
Ishaya also said that two Christians were shot and killed in an ambush in the Boccos area on July 15th.
The area’s community leader, Johanna Maugif, said on Friday (August 1) that he had driven Christians out of nine villages currently occupied by armed Fulani herdsmen.
“The Fulani terrorists have set up tents on our land where cattle are grazing, and this is what everyone can see,” he said in a reporting statement. “They are building tents and openly carry guns. They have taken our land and livestock virtually and bravely.”
He identified the occupied villages as Hokk, Kaban, Kadim, Nawula, Dulu, Mbor, Margif, Chirang and Mangor.
“Now that the terrorist identities are known, we will have the relevant government authorities instruct the security agencies to chase them so that our people can return to their ancestors’ homes,” Margiff said.
In Mangore village, residents said 14 Christians who returned from the market in the town of Boccos were ambushed and killed by armed herdsmen on July 24th.
“Around 4pm, 14 Christians from our area were ambushed and killed by Fulani terrorists,” said Kefas Malai, a local resident. “Three other Christians were injured in the attack. This happened when they returned from the Boccos town market in Mango village.”
Farmasmu Hudan, a community leader in the Boccos area, confirmed the accounts of 14 murdered Christians.
“Christian victims have returned from the weekly market in Boccos town when the vehicles were ambushed,” Hudan said at a press conference. “The victims included a woman and a small baby.”
Amarau Amarau, chairman of the Boccos Local Government Council, told Star News of Christian Daily International Morning that herdsmen’s violence has become a hot topic. Area resident Kenneth Samson asked if the government had nothing to do to end the killings in the Boccos area.
“This is too much,” Samson said. “We cannot continue to bury children and elderly people. The government must act decisively to end the murders of these Christians.”
Some residents said that more than 70 other Christians in the area were killed by Fulani herdsmen in three months.
With millions of figures in Nigeria and Sahel, Fulani, primarily Muslim, constitute hundreds of clans of many different lines that do not hold the views of extremists, while some Fulani adhere to radical Islamist ideology, all party parliamentary groups (Appgs) in the UK for international freedom or beliefs.
“They are clearly intent to adopt a comparable strategy for Boko Haram and Iswap and target strong symbols of Christian and Christian identity,” the AppG report said.
Nigerian Christian leaders say they believe herdsmen’s attacks on the Christian community in the mid-zone of Nigeria are inspired by the desire to forcefully take over Islam as it forced Christian lands and made desertification difficult to maintain the flock.
According to Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List, Nigeria has remained one of the most dangerous places for Christians. According to WWL, of the 4,476 Christians killed for faith around the world during the reporting period, 3,100 (69%) were in Nigeria.
“The scale of anti-Christian violence in this country is already at the highest possible level under the global watch list methodology,” the report states.
In the north-central zone of the country, where Christians are more common than they are in the northeast and northwest, Islamic extremist Fulani militias attack farm communities, killing hundreds of Christians and, above all, hundreds of Christians. Jihadist groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State (ISWAP) of West African states are also active in northern states in the country where federal control is poor and Christians and their communities continue to be targeted for attacks, sexual violence and the killing of disability. Ransom aid has been increasing significantly in recent years.
The violence spreads across southern states, with new jihadist terrorist group Lakrawa appearing in the northwest, armed with sophisticated weapons and an extremist agenda, WWL noted. Lakrawa is affiliated with the expansionist al-Qaeda rebellion Jamaa Nusrat ul Islam Wa al-Muslimin, or Zinim, which is derived from Mali.
Nigeria ranked 7th in the 2025 WWL list of 50 countries that are the hardest to become a Christian.
