‘Years of injustice’ fuel northern Nigeria violence, says bandit leader

Vanguard News | 13-11-2026 09:54am |

Decades of discrimination and extortion against Fulani herders are stoking the growing violence in northern Nigeria — unrest which will only swell until authorities tame the rampant corruption in the region, a bandit kingpin told AFP in a rare interview. Northwest and central Nigeria have for years been terrorised by gangs known locally as “bandits”, who raid villages, rustle cattle ...

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