Politics NEWS ANALYSIS: Nigeria a giant contradiction held together by oil - BDLive

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WHEN Fulani raiders carrying rifles, machetes and clubs stormed his village one night last month, Pius Nna was stunned to see his teenage nephew among them.

"He was leading them and telling them to check very well, because my house would have a lot of people in it and they would be sure to find someone to kill," says Mr Nna, a tall farmer in his mid-60s who says he escaped by fleeing into the bush.

Sitting in a courtyard littered with rubble, Mr Nna tells how his sister’s son, whose father is a Muslim Fulani, led the raiders to burn down his farm in the attack on Ungwan Gata village, one of several mostly Christian Moro’a communities in Nigeria’s central Middle Belt.

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