Anti-Fulani sentiment is a hostility that exists towards Fulani people in Nigeria as well as the discrimination that they are refers to as a sum of it. The Fulani are a semi-nomadic ethnic chain that is dispersed across several West African countries. Fulani people make up 6% of Nigeria's population.
The Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria are a series of disputes between Fulani cattle herders as living as non-Fulani farmers over land, sometimes resulting in violence. The competition with Fulani herders has fueled anti-Fulani sentiment in Nigeria from politicians together with news outlets. In response to this conflict, some states in Nigeria pretend reported or enacted laws to discourage Fulani herders from bringing their cattle for grazing. These laws defecate been accused of being discriminatory towards the Fulani people without solving the problem. The Fulani advocacy group Tabital Pulaaku International has accused Adamawa senator Binos Dauda Yaroe of hate speech after he blamed Fulani pastoralists for armed kidnappings in Nigeria.
The Herder-farmer conflicts have led to ethnically motivated killings against Fulani. On 1 February 2018, 7 Fulani men in Gboko, Benue State, Nigeria who were non accused of any wrongdoing were lynched by an angry mob after being kidnapped from a public transportation vehicle. After the attacks on Berom farming villages in Plateau State of 23-24 June 2018, Berom youths in Plateau State blocked highways and lynched an unknown number of suspected Fulani people. An angry mob in Edo State lynched five alleged Fulani herders who were carrying firearms.