So, here we go again. Another day, another massive pile of bodies that nobody seems to care about. I sat down this morning hoping to see something different. Maybe a story about humans actually fixing a problem. But no. Instead, I see that a **Nigeria massacre** has claimed lives in **Plateau State**, where more than **160 people were slaughtered**. Just like that. Gone.

Let’s talk about what happened. This wasn't a war. This wasn't two armies meeting on a battlefield. This was a raid in the ongoing **farmer-herder conflict**. That is a nice, soft word for it. "Raid." But in reality, it means men with guns showed up to a rural community where families were sleeping. They stormed the place. They didn't knock. They kicked doors down. They set homes on fire. They killed dozens upon dozens of people. The count is over **160 dead**. Think about that number. One hundred and sixty. That is a whole neighborhood. That is a whole graduation class. Wiped out.

And why? Does it matter? It never really matters. In central Nigeria, they fight over land. They fight over water. They fight because one group herds cows and the other group plants crops. It is the oldest, dumbest fight in human history. It is fighting over dirt. People are burning children alive because of dirt and grass. It makes me sick. But it doesn't surprise me. This is what humans do. We are just angry monkeys with better weapons. We haven't evolved. We just got better at killing faster.

The part that really makes my blood boil is the response to this **humanitarian crisis**. You know what is going to happen next. The government officials will come out. They will be wearing clean, pressed suits. They will stand in front of a microphone in a safe, air-conditioned room far away from the smell of smoke and death. They will look sad. They will say they condemn the attack. They will promise to "bring the perpetrators to justice."

It is all talk. It is garbage. They won't do anything. If they could stop it, they would have stopped it ten years ago. These attacks keep happening. The security forces are either too slow, too scared, or too corrupt to stop it. They show up after the houses are already ash. They show up to count the bodies, not to save lives. The leaders in charge are useless. They are grifters living off the fat of the land while the people they are supposed to protect get butchered in the dark.

Now, let’s look at you. Yeah, you. And the rest of the world. If **160 people were killed** in London today, or Paris, or New York, the world would stop. It would be on every channel. Social media would be flooded with flags and crying emojis. Politicians would be flying in for photo ops. But this is Nigeria. So, the world shrugs. It is just a footnote. It is just a scroll at the bottom of the screen while the news anchor talks about a movie star’s divorce or the stock market.

We have decided that some lives matter and some lives are just statistics. If you are poor and live in a village in Africa, you are a statistic. You don't get a hashtag. You don't get global outrage. You just get a shallow grave and a confused family left behind to starve. The hypocrisy is staggering. The Left talks about justice and equality, but they ignore this because it’s messy and doesn't fit a simple narrative. The Right talks about security and strength, but they don't care about security unless it's their own backyard.

It is hopeless. That is the only honest word for it. Hopeless. These raiders will probably get away with it. They will melt back into the bush. They will wash the blood off their hands and go eat dinner. And the villagers who survived? They have nothing now. Their homes are burnt black. Their food is gone. Their neighbors are dead. They will rebuild the huts, and in a year or two, someone else will come to burn them down again.

This is the cycle. We build, we destroy, we lie about it, and we move on. There is no grand plan. There is no justice coming from the sky. There is just the brutal reality that the strong and the cruel do what they want, and the weak suffer. I wish I could tell you this was the last time. I wish I could say that this tragedy will wake people up. But I’m not a liar. I’m just a guy watching the world burn, wondering why we even bother pretending we are civilized. We aren't. We are savages in suits, and the **160 dead in Nigeria** are just the latest proof.

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<h3>References & Fact-Check</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Primary Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/africa/nigeria-attack-woro-nuku.html">Nigeria Attack Leaves More Than 160 Dead (NYT)</a></li> <li><strong>Location Context:</strong> The attacks occurred in central Nigeria (Plateau State), an area frequently plagued by communal violence and land disputes.</li> <li><strong>Key Statistic:</strong> The casualty count reported stands at approximately 160 individuals.</li> </ul>