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Benue state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in April 2025

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UCDP recorded 12 events of organized violence in Benue state, Nigeria in April 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 113. The low estimate is 96 and the high estimate is 113. UCDP counts 43 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for March 2025 was 4 events.

Among the 26 months with a report for Benue state, Nigeria, April 2025 has the 8th highest count of events. Benue state, Nigeria holds 18 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Nigeria in April 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Nigeria, April 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Nigeria has each event.

Table 1. Benue state, April 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (3 of 12 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
15 Apr 2025Oturkpo lga, Benue stateFulani; IdomaNon-state131313
17 Apr 2025Ukum lga, Benue stateChain Guys; Full ForceNon-state453345
17 Apr 2025Logo lga, Benue stateFull Force; CiviliansOne-sided272727

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Benue state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of April 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Agatu11
Black Axe25
Chain Guys145
Ezza16
Fulani730
Full Force272
Idoma113
Korri16
SVC25
Tiv516

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Benue state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20264P4PCandidate Events
August 20267P23PCandidate Events
July 202619P73PCandidate Events
June 20269P15PCandidate Events
May 20266P19PCandidate Events
April 202613P66PCandidate Events
March 202614P47PCandidate Events
February 202616P61PCandidate Events
January 202623P50PCandidate Events
December 202548GED
November 202536GED
October 202523GED
September 2025514GED
August 20251634GED
July 202557GED
June 20259203GED
May 20251593GED
April 202512113GED
March 2025422GED
February 2025634GED
January 202512GED
December 2024224GED
November 2024631GED
October 2024427GED
September 202429GED
August 2024381GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Benue state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Benue state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in April 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/nigeria/benue-state/month/2025-04/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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