On this day in 2010, Five hundred (500) people, mainly women and children were allegedly killed in overnight attacks in the three villages of Dogo Nahawa, Ratsat and Zot near the city of Jos. ..
Residents and local rights activists blamed the overnight attack on ethnic Fulani pastoralists. A military spokesman said security forces arrested twenty four (24) people, accused of stealing crude oil and illegally refining it. Security forces detained ninety five (95) suspects in the violence.
Fierce competition for control of fertile farmlands between Christian and animist indigenous groups and Muslim settlers from the north have repeatedly triggered unrest over the past decade. Meanwhile, Jos was already under a dusk-to-dawn curfew after clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in January that year, which killed more than 400 people, according to community leaders.
– Also on this day in 2007, Atiku Abubakar was cleared to take part in the presidential poll, overturning a decision by the electoral commission to disqualify him.
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