Children Kidnapped in Deadly Assault on Remote Nigerian Community

It's happened again. On Sunday, local police in Nigeria's Niger State reported that there was an attack on a village, with as many as 30 villagers killed and many villagers, including children, abducted. There was no specific number of abductees given.

At least 30 villagers have been killed while several others were abducted by gunmen who raided a village in northern Nigeria’s Niger state, police said Sunday, the latest in a cycle of deadly violence in the conflict-hit region.
The gunmen stormed the Kasuwan-Daji village in Niger state’s Borgu local government area on Saturday evening and opened fire on residents. They also razed down the local market and several houses, Niger state police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said in a statement.
At least two residents put the death toll at 37 and said it could be much higher as some people remained missing as of Sunday. Residents also said security forces are yet to arrive in the area, contradicting the police’s claim that they have deployed officers to search for those kidnapped.

What's not stated in the story, and to be fair, may not yet be known, is whether the attack was aimed directly at a Christian community, or if there was a religious motivation behind the attack, as opposed to just vicious banditry. But a Catholic clergyman was one of the first to report on the attack; draw what conclusions you will from that.

Rev. Fr. Stephen Kabirat, spokesman for the Catholic Church of Kontagora Diocese where the attack happened, told local media that the gunmen killed more than 40 people and that some of those abducted were children.
The gunmen had been lurking around nearby communities for about a week before the attack, according to a resident who asked not to be named for fear of his safety. Now survivors are too afraid to go recover the bodies.
“The bodies are there (in Kasuwan-Daji village). If we don’t see any security, how can we go there?” the resident said, adding that the attack lasted for up to three hours.

Nigeria is about 56 percent Muslim and 43 percent Christian; about 10 percent are Catholic. The balance is changing, as Muslims are, to be candid, expanding faster than Nigeria's Christian population.

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A human-rights NGO, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), reports that over 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in 2025 - and that report was issued in August. It paints a bleak picture:

A new report by the Catholic-inspired International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, asserts that at least 7,087 Christians were massacred across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025—a daily average of 32 Christians killed per day.
The report published on August 10th also states that 7,899 others were abducted for being Christian. According to Emeka Umeagbalasi, the head of Intersociety, the killings and abductions are driven by some 22 jihadist groups that have made the West African nation their home.
The report claims these groups aim to eliminate an estimated 112 million Christians and 13 million adherents of traditional religions, particularly targeting the South-East and South-South regions.

And:

The report states that 19,100 churches have been destroyed, over 1,100 Christian communities displaced, and 20,000 square miles of land seized. Additionally, more than 600 Christian clerics have been abducted, including 250 Catholic priests and 350 pastors, with dozens killed.

Nigeria also has problems with roving gangs of simple bandits, but this attack seems awfully well organized and directed to be simple banditry, and bandits don't generally trouble themselves with captives. This is, very likely, exactly what it seems: One of the several factions of jihadis wandering around Nigeria, targeting Christian communities.

Religious wars have, throughout history, been some of the nastiest wars ever fought. The jihadis of Nigeria and other places seem determined to make that hold today, as well.

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