http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8425065.stm

Nigeria herders and farmers clash in central Nasarawa. 
 
At least 30 people have been killed in clashes between herders and farmers in Nigeria's central Nasarawa State, witnesses say.

Local people have described armed men driving from house to house shooting. Farms and homes have been destroyed in the remote village of Udenin Gida.

The fighting follows weeks of tensions between the two groups.

Nasarawa is in Nigeria's "Middle Belt" where rival ethnic groups often clash over land and other resources.

Reporters who have visited the village say they counted up to 50 dead bodies, many of whom they say are women and children.

The village is now under the control of the police.

BBC Nigeria correspondent Caroline Duffield says the conflict between ethnic Fulani herders and farmers has been partially caused by climate change.

Environmentalists say the Sahara Desert is creeping south by as much as 10 miles (16km) a year.

This has increased competition between rival groups for access to land.

What do you expect from a sick nation being governed by a sick president ?

Too bad for central Nigeria this week. May their souls R.I.P.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8423218.stm

Lorry hits Nigeria Kogi state market killing up to 100 
 
Up to 100 people have been killed after a runaway truck ploughed into a crowded market in Nigeria.

Officials said 55 people died, but a BBC reporter at the scene, in Kogi state, counted at least 100 corpses.

Kogi state police said the lorry hurtled down a hill at speed, smashing cars and motorcycles then crashing into the market, injuring up to 40 people.

Traffic accidents are common in Nigeria because vehicles and roads are badly maintained.

"I can only confirm that 55 people were killed. The driver of the truck lost control and ran into a group of people moving in a procession along the road," a senior police officer told AFP news agency.

Burned beyond recognition

Kogi state commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Yomi Asaniyan, said brake failure was the cause.

Declaring three days of mourning, Ibrahim Idris, the governor of Kogi state, expressed his sadness and offered to pay the medical bills of those injured.

Eyewitnesses told Nigeria's Sunday Trust newspaper that the market in Allo village in the Dekina area was filled to capacity when it was rammed by the lorry.

A number of vehicles caught fire, burning people beyond recognition. It is not yet clear whether the accident happened on Friday or Saturday.

Last week, more than 20 people burned to death when a bus carrying mourners to a funeral collided with a truck on a road in Oyo state, south-west Nigeria.

MT:

What do you expect from a sick nation being governed by a sick president ?

This has nothing to do with a sick president. These things happen all the time. Sick nation, yes.

Assuming that this a war of invasion by CHAD OR NIGER OR BENIN REPUBLIC OR CAMEROON


Who is our COMANDER IN CHIEF?

NASS and the stakeholders including the judiciary are complacent at best, conspiracy at worst.

We are a headless chicken now, at least before the chicken has head even though it may not be working or thinking.


YEYE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT.

Good, very Nice.
They can kill themselves.

I hope this doesn't turn into Iraq and Iran.

The nomadic grazers must go.

Nigeria needs to transform into full industrial farming.

Herding goats doesn't feed a nation of 150m.

orji uzor kalu once described pdp as been blood thirsty. looking back at events in nigeria from 1999 till date, one will have reason to believe that the death toll is possible above that of a war zone.
there was a masacre in bayelsa and benue respectively, then the plane crash era and now the nasarawa movie all designed to delete lives.
anyways, since God is not allowing any form of natural disaster in nigeria, the govt is doing her best to make available a natural disaster.
a dark country with sick president and a bloody thirsty party(pdp) in charge, which way nigeria?

if care is not taking they may turn it to religious crisis, those idiots