Gunmen killed at least 56 people earlier this week in central Nigeria's Benue state, the governor's office said Saturday, sharply revising a previous toll of 17. Clashes between nomadic cattle ...

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Nigeria — Nigeria's president said that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country ...

The death toll in attacks by suspected cattle herders on communities in central Nigeria's Benue State has risen to 56, Governor Hyacinth Alia said on Saturday, underscoring a resurgence of such deadly ...

In May 2024, armed men attacked remote villages in Plateau, killing at least 40 people during a late-night raid. The violence over land resources in north-central Nigeria is separate from the ...

Attacks believed to have been carried out by nomadic cattle herders killed at least 56 people in central Nigeria in one night, the Benue state governor's office said Saturday. Competition over land ...

(AP Photo/Samson Omale) People attend the funeral of a man that was killed following an attack by gunmen in the Zike farming community in north-central Nigeria, Tuesday, April 15, 2025.