It is no news that the greatest conflict in the History of Humanity has been that of the Farmer/Herdsmen.
Even from the Bible Cain a farmer didn't love his brother and murdered him but that case was different because the two were not Herdsmen.
The book of jasher explained that Cain complained of Abel bringing his herd to feed on his farm.
The conflict had begun for long before Cain took an object and hit his brother and killed him.

Some time later The herdsmen of Abram and lot both had a strife and it was because the herd of lot was roaming about eating on peoples farm and land why that of lot stayed in a place.
So when the two now stayed together,there was now strife between them.

Genesis 13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Genesis 13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
It was a strife between Herdsmen of both cattle owners.

So what happened?
Abram stayed in the land while lot chose the well watered land up .Lot left Abram.
Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

So we see that it was because of land,green pasture and water limited in demand and supply that caused the strife.
We know what happened,God blessed Abraham as he went to a dry land and God blessed him.
But lot chose the wet land ie the green land.

The strive ended there,we didn't hear that there were killings .
However,today now,we see that the case of the Fulani herdsmen is different because it is an effort to take over peoples land unlawfully and by force and violence.
They have left their dry lands and are coming to take over green lands to feed their cattle with force.
What is most painful is the destructive power of their herds and also the Herdsmen themself.
This kind of aggression has a religious undertone mostly.
We know that these people are the descendants of Ishmael -Esau-Edom,Moab and also were the illegitimate son descendants of Abram.
They were not blessed in land by God but we're only blessed in cattle.
So they became roamers or nomads always seeking pasture for their herds.
However,it is so sad that their violent nature has a tone of criminality in it.
Attacking people in their own lands,raping indigenes wives,killing children and harlots ,taking over territories and large swathes of arable land for their cattle is a religious ploy by those of Islamic faith.
The Islamic religion has sort of rubbed on them all and we now see that Muslims are leaving their conflict ridden countries,their dry land to come over to Christian wet and green pasture not for only feeding but to take over their lands.
I put this under culture because it is not their culture generally but it has an Islamic connotation in it's agenda.
The blood of slain Christian's and other Nigerians killed by Fulani Herdsmen are numerous in nature.
But how did this infiltration began in other parts of the country?

It began when The Yorubas and other tribes or so educated ones began hiring the services of Hausa/Fulani people as Gatemen,security guards and doing menial jobs while we ignorantly left them in care of our houses and whole properties behaving like their boss!!!
Then they started studying our environment and people and how unguarded we are.
Later we had a lot of scavengers who were scrap men freely roaming streets of Yoruba states in the name of finding scraps.
Turns out because we found their labour cheap or so we took our security for granted.
Worse of all in the last five years back to 2014 then the Yoruba traditional rulers and politicians began taking bribes from Fulani associations in exchange for lands and cows.
So the Yoruba monarchs and many politicians own many of these cows.
It's a shame there was no laid down rules for herding.
Worse of all then a whole area was given to these Hausa / Fulani people to settle which was right.
But what we failed to do is to be security cautious.
We failed to also educate them and failed to also supervise them .
This is why now it is very easy to be attacked by these Herdsmen.
Furthermore ,the security operatives cannot match them because they have a structure in place that favours their movement.
What can a Yoruba or Igbo or other tribes man do to heavily armed Herdmens who come in the dead of the night to attack their community or their state??
Certainly nothing.
It is unfortunate that it is happening and until the Yoruba nation stop patronizing these Fulani herdsmen or accepting bribes for their lands,these killing would continue.
What would also continue is the fact that we have not mapped out our land borders thoroughly.
These people have taken our Hospitality for granted.
Yoruba borders are so porous.
What then can be done
All security apparatus has failed!!!
The only thing that can be done is the embrace of diabolical powers or metaphysical means to phase out these attackers.
But not only would I encourage that,on the side of the Christian states it is time for spiritual warfare.
Psalm 34:7 is the answer.No angel of God would be compromised unlike the physical security apparatus.
Now it is time to pray and unleash this spiritual warfare on the Fulani Herdsmen.
Without this,all efforts of physical warfare would prove abortive.
Just like their ancient father Ishmael ,so are the Fulani herdsmen,wild ,destructive and killers only with a little exeception.
So that is the solution to stop these attacks.
Happy new year

You are right,the Yoruba's have slacked for too long,a numerous large tribe should not be trampled the way they are now

what in gods name are you talking about, the real reason conflict is rising is due to climate change and over-grazing, with less arable land up north, nomadic herdsmen will inevitably head south, the governments ineptitude in handling this problem and mitigating conflict is to blame

Gradually moving towards ethnic cleansing. Let them continue.