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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Fulani herdsmen who attack farmers in Nigeria with weapons like AK-47 riffles are not Nigerians but foreigners. Speaking in an interview on Arise TV on Thursday, the President stated that the Nigerian Fulani herders carry just sticks and machete to gather herbs on the farms and do not carry guns. “The problem is to understand the culture of the cattle rearers. The Nigerian cattle rearers do not carry anything more than a stick. “Sometimes they carry machetes…

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked governors not to sit idle waiting on him to solve every problem in their states especially killer fulani herdsmen, urging them to stop herdsmen attacks by themselves. In recent times the country has been hit with different forms of attacks especially from Fulani herdsmen with the country recording a recent on in Igangan, a farming community. Because the President is Fulani some Nigerians have accused him of being bias and deliberately not helping to fight the menace. The…

Some suspected Fulani robbers have allegedly attacked some sand winners on their way back home from work and heading to Agona Swedru. They reportedly killed one of the workers named Kwame Abeiku, a 26-year-old man, who was the pay loader in the attack with 6 more people severally injured. The incident occurred at around 6pm on Tuesday evening at Gomoa Manso. According to victims of the incident, they were on board a car heading to Agona Swedru when unknown men suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen stormed out of nearby…

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have attacked Igangan community, Oyo State and have killed about 20 people, burn down chief's palace as well as a petrol station. This comes six days after after the chairman of Amotekun Corps in Oyo State, General Adjibola Togun (retd) raised the alarm that some foreign herders were about to attack six States in the South West. The gunmen were said to have invaded the town at midnight, killing and burning houses in the community. Reports also has it that many vehicles were burnt including…