Sporadic clashes between nomadic Fulani herdsmen and locals, landowners
or farmers in the nook and cranny of Nigeria have claimed thousands of innocent
lives, led to loss of properties worth millions of Naira and there seem to be
no end in sight to this ugly, routine phenomenon. While Boko Haram overtook
ISIS as the world's deadliest terrorist organisation going by fatalities, the Global
Terrorism Index (GTI) ranked Fulani
Herdsmen as the 4th deadliest terrorist organization in the world in its 2015 ranking. The GTI reckons that, ‘’Fulani
militants in the northern part of Nigeria killed as many as 1,229 people in the
country in 2014’’.
