Fresh Wave Of Fulani Attacks Leaves 25 Christians Dead

ANOTHER 25 Christians have been brutally murdered in the last 12 days as the ongoing genocide in Nigeria continues.

Nigeria remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a Christian, according to Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List. In a recent report, the organisation noted that of the 4,476 Christians recently killed worldwide for their faith, 3,100—or 69 per cent—were killed in Nigeria.

These staggering figures only begin to illustrate the carnage, killings and horror taking place. Thousands have watched their neighbours or family members murdered or abducted, while many others have seen their churches, homes and farmland burned to the ground.

Just last week, a Muslim ethnic group known as the Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in Nasarawa State and two others in Plateau State, following the slaughter of 11 Christians earlier in the week, Morning Star News reports.

According to the outlet, the jihadists also invaded a village in Keana County while residents slept. Two Christians were killed and another abducted.

“Keana Local Government Area is no longer safe,” said Musa Adamu, a village resident. “Our peaceful home, where we once enjoyed all comforts, has been turned into a den of armed bandits. Prior to Thursday night’s attack, there was a kidnapping in the Giza community where a husband and wife were taken, and to this moment, there is still no news of their whereabouts.”

On the same night, Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians and 11 others in the central part of the state in coordinated attacks in Riyom, sources told Morning Star News.

Reports indicate that Nigeria’s Middle Belt is now littered with the corpses of slain Christians as the rampage continues unabated.

Rev Simon Nbach of Flaming Fire Ministry in Anwule, Benue State, was among ten Christians killed by Fulani herdsmen on 3 November. During the attacks, the extremists also burned down a Catholic church building and destroyed dozens of homes.

Village resident Ojay Ojonya told Morning Star News that he lost relatives in the assault.

“Lord, please come to our aid,” he pleaded.

Meanwhile, hundreds have mourned the deaths of seven Christians—including a 12-year-old boy—killed in an attack in Kaduna State.

“We have laid to rest seven of our beloved Christians who were killed by terrorists and Fulani herdsmen,” area resident Daniel Dodo said. “The funeral was a ceremony of tears in the midst of deliberate violence against us because of our Christian faith.”

The funeral was held for Yohanna Adamu, 46; Bala Bude Chawai, 57; Yakubu Bala, 50; Abubakar Ya’u, 30; Ishaya Dauda, 56; Monday Nveneh, 46; and Saviour Emmanuel, 12.

“This funeral has become a powerful display of unity, faith and shared resilience for Christians,” Dodo continued. “Families wept, neighbours embraced, and prayers filled the air as hundreds gathered to honour the innocent lives taken too soon, but never forgotten.”

Since 2009, an estimated 52,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria. One of the worst recent incidents occurred in June, when around 200 Christians were killed in Yelwata, a farming community in Guma County, Benue State, after heavily armed Fulani jihadists attacked over a period of two days.

Micheel Odeh James of Truth Nigeria told CBN News that Benue State is predominantly Christian, and that Yelwata was a settlement for internally displaced persons who had fled previous Fulani attacks.

“We are about six to seven million Nigerians living in Benue, and over 97 per cent of them are Christians—Baptists, Methodists, Catholics,” James said. “Militants set fire to buildings while people slept and attacked with machetes anyone who tried to flee.”

He described the scene as a gruesome “genocidal massacre”.

“It was not just slaughtering, not just machete attacks—some people were locked in their homes, doused with petrol and set ablaze,” he said. “Babies were burned.”

According to the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief (APPG), millions of Muslim Fulani live in Nigeria and the Sahel. While most do not hold extremist views, some subscribe to radical Islamist ideology.

“They adopt a strategy comparable to Boko Haram and ISWAP (Islamic State in West Africa Province) and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.

The attacks were once limited to Nigeria’s north-central zone, but the violence has now spread towards the southern states. A recent World Watch List report also notes the emergence of a new jihadist group, Lakurawa, in the northwest, armed with advanced weaponry and a radical Islamist agenda.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump recently designated Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” and warned that aid to the Nigerian government could be halted if more is not done to protect Christians. He also suggested that the U.S. may consider military intervention.

“If we attack, it will be fast, vicious and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians!” he wrote on Truth Social.

More than 7,000 Christians were massacred in Nigeria in the first 220 days of the year alone, according to Intersociety, a Nigerian human rights and democracy advocacy organisation.

SOURCE: CBN