Farmers/Herdsmen Clashes: More Were Killed In Taraba Than Anywhere

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that the number of persons killed in herdsmen and farmers clashes and other violent attacks in Mambilla Plateau, Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State, is more than those killed in Zamfara and Benue states combined.

The dangerous criminalization of Fulani ethnicity, By Farooq Kperogi

Fulani Herdsmen

The Nigerian mass media-and the online echo chambers they have spawned on social media and elsewhere-have normalized the pathologization and criminalization of the Fulani ethnic identity through their popularization of the odious “Fulani herdsmen” collocation. Criminalizing and pathologizingan entire ethnic identity is often the precursor to genocide.