Terrorist Massacres Reach Unprecedented Heights in Nigeria as Nigeria Suffers Religious and Ethnic Division : Horror in Kwara ( Report and Commentary)

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Facebook posts of Feb 4 2026

1. Chigozie Ejiogu:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid033rwm8MbqXy1ndAtn9EsBTdfvFqqrVhsezDHuBhuipYE8uLov2RoMHXwSjHWSg3fyl&id=100001621802527&mibextid=Nif5oz

THE NATION IS BL€€DING

Kwara Under Siege as Terrorists Wipe Out Royal Household, Clerics, Teachers, Children.

Kaiama, Kwara State — Tuesday Night into Wednesday Morning.

Nigeria sank deeper into grief and disbelief as Woro, a once-quiet community in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, was turned into a killing field by suspected Sahel-linked terrorists in a carefully coordinated massacre that unfolded over two days.

What began as nightfall terror ended as a prolonged slaughter.

By the time the gunfire faded, dozens lay dead — among them two wives of the Emir of Woro, several of his children, the Chief Imam of the community, a school principal, a headmistress, and schoolchildren who had just returned home.

 Entire families were erased. Authority figures were deliberately silenced. Innocence was hunted down.

The Emir himself, Alhaji Saliu Bio Umar, has vanished.

His whereabouts remain unknown, raising chilling fears that he may have been abducted or executed. His palace was torched, reduced to flames that lit up the night sky — a symbolic destruction of both leadership and tradition.

Eyewitness accounts describe a force of over 200 heavily armed fighters storming Woro on Tuesday evening, moving with precision and confidence. Residents say the attackers showed no mercy, killing anyone in sight — villagers, travelers, farmers, traders, women, and children.

“They killed without asking questions,” one survivor said. “If they saw you, you were dead.”

People traveling through Woro were ambushed and butchered. Some victims had their throats slit. Others were gunned down as they fled. The attackers moved house to house, street to street, unchallenged for hours.

Security forces reportedly responded to distress calls but were overwhelmed by the sheer number and firepower of the attackers, forcing a tactical withdrawal to avoid total annihilation. That retreat left Woro defenseless.

The terrorists took full control.

Among the dead were members of the Emir’s immediate family, a deliberate act many residents interpret as a message: no one is untouchable.

The killing of the Chief Imam of Woro, a respected spiritual leader, shattered the community’s moral backbone. 

The execution of a school principal and headmistress, alongside students who had just returned from school, underscored the cruelty of the assault — education itself was treated as an enemy.

In one harrowing video circulating from the aftermath, anguished voices can be heard crying out that the Emir’s palace had been burned. Bodies lie motionless on the ground. Flames consume what once symbolized stability and authority.

The Emir’s official vehicle was reportedly seized and used by the attackers to transport abducted victims to unknown locations.

Survivors say the nightmare continued.

On Wednesday morning, the attackers returned. Those who had escaped the first wave — or who came back to search for loved ones — were hunted down and killed. The message was clear: survival was temporary.

A RETALIATION YEARS IN THE MAKING

Investigations point to a Sadiku-led Boko Haram faction, allegedly linked to broader Sahel terror networks, as the architects of the massacre.

Months before the attack, the group had reportedly tried to force Woro residents to attend extremist sermons and submit to radical ideology. The Emir refused. He resisted. He reportedly alerted military authorities, warning of coercion, intimidation, and the growing terror presence in the area.

That defiance may have sealed Woro’s fate.

Residents believe the massacre was calculated revenge — a brutal punishment for rejecting extremism and cooperating with the state.

For hours, terrorists ruled Nigerian territory without resistance.

Families were slaughtered. Leaders were erased. Children were murdered. A monarch disappeared.

And when it was over, Woro was left burning — physically and emotionally — while the nation woke up once again to familiar horror.

This was not just an attack on a village.

It was an attack on authority, faith, education, and the idea of safety itself.

Nigeria is not just under threat.

Nigeria is bleeding.

2.Boko Haram Terrorists Murder 170 People in My Backyard

By Farooq Kperogi

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0eGyq2CL83yhRrxveVJ2CK44StR3X5M7S1hHpVxcpJjZTc351z91Gge9Npb3ziUfBl&id=47904265&mibextid=Nif5oz

I am using the last ounce of energy left in me to type this. A rural community in Kwara State’s Kaiama Local Government, which is a close geographic, consanguineal, historical and cultural cousin to my own Baruten Local Government, is bleeding from an unspeakably sanguinary terrorist assault that has so far claimed the lives of at least 170 people, and counting.

People familiar with what happened in the village of Woro in Kaiama Local Government said the bloodbath started yesterday evening and continued into the morning hours of today.

The trigger for the mass massacre was the decision by the district head of the village, by the name of Alhaji Salihu Umar, to inform authorities of a letter the community received from the terrorists stating that they would be coming to preach in the village at an unspecified date.

The village head suspected that the terrorists, known to locals as Mamuda, were up to no good, so he did what all law-abiding people would do: report to the security forces.

It turned out, however, that the terrorists appeared to have informants among the security forces the village head reported to. At least that’s what the people believe.

The terrorists were incensed that the village head had the temerity to report them to the security forces and decided to go on a mass murdering spree in retaliation. It’s not the first time the Mamuda terrorists have done such a thing in that community.

They not only murdered, they also burned homes and kidnapped people, using the personal SUV of the village head, whose whereabouts are still unknown as of the time of writing.

The photos of slaughtered and mutilated bodies of innocent men, women and children that my people shared with me have immobilized me and will probably haunt me for days.

In previous weeks, they massacred hundreds of innocents on the Niger State side of Borgu in the most brutal way imaginable.

What kinds of homicidal beasts spill innocent blood just for the hell of it? The government must act to stop this insensate cruelty once and for all. Security must be beefed up across the entire Borgu area, from Kebbi through Niger to Kwara.

Just in case the screwdriver salesman who feeds rightwing Americans stories about “Christian genocide” is tempted to use Google to "verify" that the innocents murdered in Borgu are Christians, they are Muslims. 

All deaths should worry anyone who makes even the slightest pretense to humanity.

Commentary

The two reports copied and linked above are revelatory for two reasons.

Both of them, particularly that by Chigozie, present a compelling narrative of inhumanity at its height.

The responses to Chigozie's post by readers in the thread of the post show Igbo named readers recurrently interpreting the tragedy as a form of karma for Yoruba people.

References are made by some to the atrocities suffered by Igbos in the Nigerian Civil War.

Others reference IPOB leader Nnmadi Kanu who is described as prophetic in his description of the Nigerian predicament, centring victimization of Igbos by other ethnicities, with Yoruba being singled out by a vocal group of Igbos as particular targets of critique.

I did not read any reference to the transition of IPOB from peaceful agitation for a separatist referendum in Igboland to a violent group, terrorizing other Igbos.

Farooq 's post demonstrates the frustration of a good no of Muslims with the idea of a Christian genocide in Nigeria in the face of killings of both Muslims and Christians by terrorists while the responses to his post demonstrate the frustrations of a good no of Christians and people from Southern Nigeria with the resistance of Northern Muslims to the idea of a Christian genocide by radical Muslims co-existing with massacres of fellow Muslims by the same extremists.