Location of Plateau state, Nigeria. (Map data © 2026 Google)
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani gunmen in Nigeria shot two Christians to death in a village of Bokkos County, Plateau state, on Sunday (Oct. 4) and four others in Riyom County on Saturday, sources said.
“Two Christians were killed and three others were injured by Fulani herdsmen in Mangor village on 4 October,” area youth leader Bwefang Sunday told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “In Bokkos this week, herdsmen have carried out attacks in Mangor and Bakanuk villages.”
On the same night, Joshua Ishaku notified Christian Daily International-Morning Star News about the late night attack on Bokkos County’s Bakanuk village.
“There’s an ongoing attack in Bakanuk,” Ishaku said. “The injured Christian victim is currently under medical care at the Jos University Teaching Hospital.”
Area resident Emmanuel Mashingil identified the wounded Christian as Mangai Godfrey.
Riyom County
In Plateau state’s Riyom County, armed Fulanis killed four Christians in attacks on two villages on Saturday (Oct. 3), sources said.
“Armed Fulani terrorists have attacked Rim village, where they killed two Christians,” area resident Bulus Davou told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News in a text message. “On the same night they also invaded Wereng village, another Christian community, where two Christians, Joel Bwede, 39, and Justice Dadong, 22, were killed.”
Predominantly Christian Jol village in Riyom County was attacked on Tuesday night (Oct. 6) at about 9 p.m. as residents were sleeping, said community leader Solomon Mwantiri.
“A terror attack is currently ongoing in Jol community,” Mwantiri said in a text message. “The attackers are armed Fulani herdsmen.”
Attacks in August took the lives of seven Christians in Riyom County, residents said, including three killed in Rim village on Aug. 30 and three others in the same village on Aug. 25. Both attacks by Fulani gunmen came at night as residents were sleeping, residents said.
Fulani assailants also killed a Christian in Wereng village on Aug. 17, said Mwantiri.
“At least one Christian has been killed following an attack on Wereng village, a Christian community,” Mwantiri siad. “The name of the Christian victim is Mr. Pam Ezra.”
Darim Ezekiel, a member from the area of Nigeria’s parliament, the National Assembly, expressed “profound grief, deep anger, and outright frustration on the continued, and unprovoked attacks plaguing Christian communities.”
“This senseless violence has once again plunged Christians into profound sorrow. These Christian communities are bleeding, and the continuous loss of innocent lives has reached an unbearable threshold,” Ezekiel said. “Families have been left in anguish, and futures that held so much promise have been brutally extinguished.”
Recurring bloodshed cannot and must not become the new normal, he said.
“We demand immediate, transparent, and aggressive military action to flush out these killers from their hideouts and bring them to justice,” Ezekiel said.
More Christians were killed in Nigeria than in any other country from Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2025, according to Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List. Of the 4,849 Christians killed worldwide for their faith during that period, 3,490 – 72 percent – were Nigerians, an increase from 3,100 the prior year. Nigeria ranked No. 7 on the WWL list of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.
In the country’s North-Central zone, where Christians are more common than they are in the North-East and North-West, Islamic extremist Fulani militia attack farming communities, killing many hundreds, Christians above all, according to the report. Jihadist groups such as Boko Haram and the splinter group Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), among others, are also active in the country’s northern states, where federal government control is scant and Christians and their communities continue to be the targets of raids, sexual violence, and roadblock killings, according to the report. Abductions for ransom have increased considerably in recent years.
The violence has spread to southern states, and a new jihadist terror group, Lakurawa, has emerged in the northwest, armed with advanced weaponry and a radical Islamist agenda, the WWL noted. Lakurawa is affiliated with the expansionist Al-Qaeda insurgency Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, or JNIM, originating in Mali.
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