According to Nigeria, Fulani Hazman killed a Christian farmer last week and injured three other people in Bauch state.
Five Christians who went to check out the farm in Gumel village near Yangan in Tafawa Balewa County on August 27th said Fulani were grazing cattle on the land.
“[They]were also attacked by the same Fulani who were grazing on their farm,” Pastor Habila said. “During the course of the attack, a Christian was killed and three other Christians were injured.”
The injured Christian was taken to a general hospital in the town of Tafawa Balewa and later referred to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) for treatment.
“Reports received from congregations in various churches show that these furani are gathering in the bushes and are still grazing on our farm,” Pastor Habila said. “Therefore, in this moment, we all ask that we be kneel for prayers to our beloved God, so that we can quickly end this conflict for the improvement of our lands and people.”
On the same day, the herdsmen attacked the Peakman community after their first attack on the community on August 25th.
“Naomi Sabo, one of the Christian women, was cut off with a machete and her teenage son was cut off with a machete,” Danlady told Christian Daily International Morning Star News. “Another Christian woman, the third victim, was cut off herdsmen.”
During the two weeks in late August, hundreds of Christian farmers lost their crops and took cattle to graze them, he said.
Tribal leaders of Tafawa Balewa, Komo, Tafawa Balewa, expressed their sadness over the new attacks in the area in a statement at a meeting of local residents.
“This urgent meeting was needed by recent and continuous tragic events that have come to our community, including the horrific and brutal murder of one of us, Ilmiya Johanna. “We are leaders and as people’s voices, I clearly condemn these meaningless acts of violence. In the face of these provocations, we are calm in our community.”
In the neighbouring Plateau states, terrorists have killed more than 300 residents in areas adjacent to Kaduna and Nasarawa in the weeks leading up to the rebranding of the military’s failed safe haven program to run the peace permanently, Truthnigeria reported. Prime Minister Christopher Towabin Musa, the Pentagon, said in the official announcement of the new programme for the Northern Central region on August 29 that it is a strategic transition for the Plateau and neighboring states of Kaduna, Nasarawa and Benue.
“For many years, Operation Safe Haven has played a key role in alleviating joint conflicts, restraining armed bandits and strengthening civilian military relations,” Musa said. “However, the limited availability of critical enablers has hampered our ability to definitively deter and respond to threats, making us appear more reactive than preventive.”
Musa argued that the change was not cosmetics, but expressed a new mission and stronger resolve to pursue lasting peace, saying that the operation to endure peace will adopt a society-wide approach with emphasis on inter-ministerial collaboration, intelligence-driven operations, community engagement and synergistic effects with neighbouring operations such as operational whirlstroke.
“The reality is that we are deploying additional personnel, providing important assets under management to strengthen logistics and improve effectiveness,” Musa said. “This will be complemented by welfare initiatives, supporting the military on-site and enabling them to perform with focus and resilience.”
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 worst countries for Christians.
