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NIGERIA: MORE GUNMEN IN BENUE STATE. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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NIGERIA: MORE GUNMEN IN BENUE STATE. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1906 NIGERIA

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I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

1:04.9

Gregory's instructed me over the years about Nigeria. This is a major component of the success of Africa's future, if there is to be a

1:14.2

success. However, it is a land blessed by natural resources, by sophisticated people, by investment

1:23.0

from Europe, and trouble. Reuters, at least 42 killed in weekend attacks in Nigeria's Benu State.

1:32.3

At least 42 people shot dead by suspected herders in a series of weekend attacks

1:37.6

across West District in Nigeria's Banu State.

1:42.9

32 bodies were recovered from the assaults. Gregory,

1:46.5

we've touched on this before. The herders, they are at random, but they make war on people

1:53.8

who are not Muslim. How is this divided up in Nigeria? Well, I mean, you make it sound like a weekend in Chicago when you talk about all those

2:03.2

deaths.

2:04.1

The reality is that, yes, in Benway State, it's a mixing ground, if you like, between

2:10.1

north and south.

2:11.6

There is a significant house and Fulani population, and they're northern and Muslim, the Fulani, who are nomadic and herders, traditionally,

2:22.8

they're becoming more urbanized each year.

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