The last area of government failure relates to strategy. Nigeria’s state authorities continue to negotiate with organised criminal gangs and bandits, who carry out mass attacks in North Central and ...

Nigeria’s state authorities continue to negotiate with organised criminal gangs and bandits, who carry out mass attacks in north-central and north-west Nigeria.

On Friday, gunmen killed more than 100 villagers in an overnight attack in Benue's Yelewata village, where the assailants also set houses ablaze. The killings are the latest in Nigeria's north-central ...

150 killed in Nigeria attack, farmers and herders clash over land, President vows action, survivors recount horror.

In this screengrab made from video, smoke rises from a burned house following an attack by gunmen in Yelewata community north-central Nigeria, Monday, June 16, 2025.

The death toll from an attack by gunmen in north-central Nigeria over the weekend has climbed to 150 ...

The death toll from an attack by gunmen in north-central Nigeria over the weekend has climbed to 150. Villagers were still digging through burned structures on Monday, counting their dead and ...