Fulani militias kill more than Boko Haram – Expert

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By Kareem Azeez

Fulani militias have emerged as Nigeria’s deadliest non-state armed group, eclipsing Boko Haram and ISWAP in civilian deaths, yet remain largely overlooked by global terrorism monitors, a security expert has warned.

This is according to security expert Steven Kefas who cited preliminary data from the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) showing that between October 2019 and September 2024, Fulani Ethnic Militias (FEM) were responsible for 47 per cent of all civilian killings in Nigeria — more than five times the combined death toll of Nigeria’s jihadist groups.

ORFA’s figures are stark: 36,056 civilians killed, 13,437 incidents of extreme violence, and over 29,180 abducted with kidnappings rising from 1,665 in 2020 to 7,648 in 2024 . Up to 3.4 million people have also been internally displaced, mostly from Nigeria’s Middle Belt.

Yet despite the rising toll, Fulani militias have vanished from international terror rankings like those published by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI). According to Kefas, their violence is mis-categorised as communal or ethnic conflict, making it invisible to international security frameworks and humanitarian aid.

Their methodical, low-profile campaigns where 79 per cent of attacks are land-based raids on farming settlements focus on abduction, killings, sexual violence, and arson. Recent atrocities include the June 13–14 Yelwata massacre in Benue State, where more than 150 mostly women and children were reportedly slaughtered, and the Agatu killings in early 2016, which claimed up to 500 lives .

“In Agatu in 2016 and again in Yelwata in 2025, these militias targeted farming communities in their sleep,” Kefas said. “This isn’t random violence; it’s systematic ethnic cleansing aimed at reshaping demographic landscapes.”

He criticises the GTI’s narrow focus on spectacular jihadist violence, which overlooks slow-motion genocide by groups like FEM. This mislabelling has real-world consequences, Kefas warned, diverting international aid and counter-terrorism assistance away from some of the most afflicted regions .

Beyond civilian deaths, the destruction undercuts national food security. As Christian farming communities are emptied, local agricultural production suffers, deepening economic distress across the region.

Kefas urged security analysts and global institutions to expand their definitions of terrorism to include systematic cartel-style militia violence. “These are fathers, mothers, children whose lives were cut short while the world’s gaze remained elsewhere,” he said. “Without recognition as terrorism, there’s little hope for resources, accountability or justice.”

International attention, Kefas concluded, must shift, terrorism is not only the flash of a bomb, but the silent erasure of entire communities.

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‘Buhari tried to kill me in 2021, but he’s dead now’ – Sunday Igboho

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Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, has reacted to the death of former President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Naija News reports that the activist recalled the 2021 raid at his Ibadan home by security operatives under Buhari’s administration.

In a video shared on social media, Igboho expressed deep gratitude to God for preserving his life.

He said he was thankful to be alive today, while the former president, who allegedly ordered the deadly attack on him, had passed away.

Igboho recounted how, on the night of July 1, 2021, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and soldiers stormed his house in the middle of the night, in what he described as an attempt to kill him.

He described the late president as a “criminal Fulani man” and claimed some Yoruba collaborators helped in planning the attack.

He said: “I thank God for my life today. My people, Buhari don die. See life. The Buhari criminal man that sent the DSS and military to come and kill me middle in the night, in July 1st, 2021.

“He died today see life. my people we’re supposed to learn about this that criminal man Buhari. he don die see i’m alive today i thank god god thank you for my life today. Criminal fulani man with some stupid Yoruba people that he gang up and come to my house, middle of the night, that I tried to take my life, but God said no. If God said yes, nobody can say no. God said no. See life, he don die today. Thank God.”

Former President Muhammadu Buhari died in London on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at about 4:30 p.m., after a prolonged illness.

Band of thieves and purveyors of ineptitude.....

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By Boyejo A. Coker - Editor-in-Chief

It actually does not matter what aisle of the 'political' spectrum you belong to, this rudderless leadership has failed Nigerians, more-so even worse, since the inception of the 4th Republic in May, 1999.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held sway for fifteen mostly inglorious years (1999-2015) under the stewardship of the following:

a) Rtd. General Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007)

b) The late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-2010)

c) Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (2010-2015).

For at least 12 of those first 15 years of the 4th Republic, corruption, by and large, became the norm while the climate created by avaricious greed, further engendered a general state of lawlessness.

Kidnappings and killing orgies became commonplace and have continued unabated, till today.

While some may say that there was a certain degree of accountability, with the accompanying restoration of some semblance of sanity during Yar'Adua's brief reign, the truth remains that his vision of a better Nigeria was never going to see the light of day, given the scavengers and marauders he was surrounded by.

For this piece, we will absolve Umaru Yar'Adua of some of the PDP misrule when one considers that he was never in charge, as the cabal (whose stranglehold on the proverbial throat of Nigeria has never been in doubt) led by the one Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo et al essentially pulled his strings. When he (Yar'Adua) then dared to think for himself, he was murdered by the demonic powers behind the Nigerian throne of oppression.

Then came Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo again, as in his quest to maintain his inordinate hold and that of his fellow 'barbarians at the gate' on the destiny of Nigeria, he ensured that the next Nigerian leader would come from his "political family tree' (unfortunately, nothing good has ever come from any Obasanjo tree including his biological family tree). Thus, the dysfunctional reign of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, an absolute and utter misfit for any public office, was visited upon Nigerians.

It remains telling that only Goodluck Ebele Jonathan could have made an ethnic and religious bigot attractive to the same Nigerians that had rejected him (Muhammadu Buhari) a resounding three times (2003, 2007 and 2011) prior to his resounding victory in the 2015 general elections.

In case some have forgotten how we got here, this was the "scorecard" of the PDP misrule, particularly under Jonathan:

a) Coffers-to-personal account accountability (or lack-there-of) where public funds were used for personal gain including the extravagant wedding of GEJ's daughter http://www.myjoyonline.com/…/goodluck-jonathans-daughter-re….

b) An aviation industry (once led by Femi Fani-Kayode and then later by the certificate forging Stella Oduah) that was nothing short of a death trap. I should know as I lost a close relative, Deji Falae (Ondo State Commisioner for Culture and Tourism at the time) to one of those unfortunate but far-too-common air crashes under the PDP misrule.

c) Fabricated economic numbers embellished masterfully by sycophants in the Finance and Economic Ministries to obfuscate the fact that the average Nigerian could not afford the most basic amenities under the Jonathan misrule.

d) Religious over-reach where Jonathan consistently employed openly the advise and services of so-called Christian Pastors and even embarrassed the country by taking his whole cabinet to Israel to "pray". Can you imagine the outcry from the same hypocritical CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) and their egunje leadership if PMB had gone to Saudi Arabia with his whole cabinet to pray?

e) Under Jonathan, the bigotry and balkanization of Nigeria was effectively set in motion as Jonathan was essentially committed to the disintegration of Nigeria; and this was made even more apparent with the systematic decimation of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Jonathan, in an act of subterfuge against the Nigerian state, then employed foreign mercenaries (former South African soldiers under the apartheid racist regime) to fight Boko Haram at the end of his unfortunate misrule. 

f) Do Nigerians also forget that Jonathan attempted to scuttle the democratic process during this period of shame and disgrace to the Nigerian nation by postponing the elections?

g) The use of the DSS to terrorize, intimidate and kill (thousands of people disappeared without trace) Nigerians in the North, the SE and the SW (in particular) with Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose and Musiliu Obanikoro leading the assault on political opponents in the SW with the firm support of the DSS, much like the days of Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, that weaponization of a State Security apparatus against the citizenry has continued under the autocratic administration of Muhammadu Buhari.

h) Nigeria became a pariah state under Jonathan and effectively lost its voice both on the African continent and globally. Anyone who underestimates the forces that are against this current administration with its stated desire to sanitize the nation must be truly misinformed. The forces are both spiritual and physical and I will caution Nigerians that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.  

And the circus basically continued under the rudderless and despotic rulership (note I didn’t use the term leadership) of Muhammadu Buhari, who proved himself to be just as incompetent a leader as he was as a soldier. Sadly, the teeming masses of hardworking and highly industrious Nigerians remain saddled with an unbecoming band of brigands and marauders as so-called leaders.

Nigerians need to realize that they are merely pawns in the game of high stakes chess being played by a corrupt and morally bankrupt political class. The truth is they (the political class) even intermarry and are not bothered by ethnic or religious so-called differences, while at the same time fanning the embers of ethnic and religious warfare among the desperately poor who just would like to have a fair shake in life, for once. 

While I am not personally a big fan of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he is actually making tough decisions required to turn the tide of gross economic mismanagement that had occurred during decades of PDP misrule. Now, those same PDP band of brigands and their undulating appendage of parasitic acolytes, have created another alphabet soup organization called the ADC or the African Democratic Congress.                                      

The only thing democratic about this new conduit for looting and unbridled thievery, is the legalization of it by the same parasitic kleptocrats that have bled Nigeria dry. As the late Sunny Okosun said in his famous song from almost three decades ago, "Which way Nigeria. Which way to go?" The answer lies squarely in the hands of the Nigerian people and the sooner they realize how much power they have to make a change, the sooner that change will come.  

Heaven, as they say, helps those who help themselves. Recycling proven crooks and eternal back-room deal makers like Atiku, Peter Obi, Nasir El-Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi under whatever auspices is simply putting lipstick on a pig. The latter is still just that, a pig! 

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Flashback - Atiku Abubakar: Corruption Incorporated

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Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar said he is willing to disclose his assets if compelled by law and denied a new corruption allegation against him ahead of the Feb. 25 election, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Atiku, who was vice president from 1999 to 2007, is the main opposition People's Democratic Party's candidate and among the top three contenders to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari, whose final term ends in May.

The candidate, a 76-year-old businessman, has previously faced allegations of corruption, which he denies.

Atiku told the BBC he would disclose his assets if a law was enacted requiring it and that he would "take it in good faith" if he lost the election.

"The law doesn't provide that we should make it (assets) public. But if the law says we should make it public, I will make it public. I don't mind it," he said.

A ruling party official last week filed a motion with the High Court in Abuja asking it to order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other agencies to arrest and prosecute Atiku over a leaked audio.

On the audio, which Reuters has not verified, someone who sounds like Atiku describes a plan to divert funds from government projects and cover up that the person received the money.

When asked to comment on the audio, Atiku told the BBC: "That voice has disclosed nothing new."

When pressed if it was his voice in the audio he said, "Nothing new."

"All what I know, all corrupt practices or corrupt allegations against me have been investigated in this country more than anybody else and nothing was found against me."

Atiku figured prominently in the corruption trial of former U.S. Representative William Jefferson, who was accused of trying to bribe Atiku in an effort to expand a technology business in Nigeria. Jefferson was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. His sentence was subsequently reduced.

Separately, U.S. Senate investigators in 2010 alleged that one of Atiku's four wives helped him transfer more than $40 million in "suspect funds" into the United States from offshore shell companies.

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Political Sign Vandalism (Part 2) - Federal Way, Washington State Mayoral Race

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According to RCW 29a.84.040, each instance of defacement or removal is a separate violation. Misdemeanors can be punishable by up to 90 days in jail or a fine of up to $1,000, or both.

Political Sign Vandalism - Federal Way, Washington State Mayoral Race

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This video (there will be a second part to it) was actually the second incident in a spate of 24 hours of political vandalism against our Mayoral campaign in the City of Federal Way. 

The first incident occurred on July 4th, 2025 at the intersection of Celebration Park road and 13th Pl S. 

Regarding the first incident, I Spoke with officers Boyle and Rodriguez of the FWPD about our sign being taken down on 7/4/25 around 7:45pm PST at the Celebration Park Intersection on Celebration Park Rd. 

While we have documented that first incident accordingly, the second incident is even more brazen, as this video and the subsequent one will show. We will take the necessary steps to tackle these obvious acts of intimidation head-on, and we will be directed and aggressive in ensuring that the full extent of the law is brought to bare on the responsible parties. 

According to RCW 29a.84.040, each instance of defacement or removal is a separate violation. Misdemeanors can be punishable by up to 90 days in jail or a fine of up to $1,000, or both.