Adams Nicholas lost everything when "Fulani killers" armed with assault rifles, pistols and sticks descended on his village of Ancha on the evening of January 4.

"A big number of people came with their cattle and they started to shoot sporadically."

"Two people were killed, our houses were burnt down. They destroyed everything," said the 30-year-old teacher, one of 10,000 displaced people staying at Gbajimba primary school, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the state capital.

For miles around, dozens of dusty villages with burnt-out homes have been emptied of their inhabitants. Others live under a night-time curfew.

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