Tiv militias attacked Bantage community, shooting four people and setting a farm ablaze.

Fyayi village in Wukari LGA, Taraba State, was destroyed by Tiv

The communal crisis that began on Thursday, October 18, at Kasuwan Magani in Kajuru LGA spread to the Kaduna metropolis on Sunday. Violence erupted at approximately 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM in Mararaban Rido and Sabon Tasha areas of the city, then spilled over to Tudun Wada, Central Market, and Ahmadu Bello Way in the city center. The violence involved the burning of tyres along major roads (including Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway and Ahmadu Bello Way), looting of shops, gunshots, arson of houses, and attacks across communal lines. A resident reported that the problem began at a church in Mararaban Rido where a man was caught recording a pastor's sermon and was arrested by police, after which violence erupted. Youths barricaded roads, stopping and searching vehicles

On the evening of 11 June 2009, a detachment of “Operation Flush II”, a controversial police and military task force, intercepted a group of Boko Haram members who were on a funeral procession in Maiduguri, Borno State. According to the Borno State Attorney-General, Kaka Shehu Lawan, an armed member of the unit opened fire after questioning why the mourners were riding motorcycles without wearing crash helmets, a new law the state had been enforcing since January. The shooting left 17 members of the sect wounded, with some sustaining fatal injuries; they were admitted to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. The state government did not condemn the incident. Within days, the sect’s leader, Mohammed Yusuf, delivered a firebrand sermon in Hausa—often described as an “Open Letter to President Umaru Musa Yar‘Adua”—in which he vowed reprisal, accused the government of breaking a peace accord, and directed his followers to arm themselves in preparation for self‑defence and eventual jihad