Nigeria, June 22 -- Heavily armed jihadists on Sunday rode into Zugurma, a community in Niger State on the fringe of Kainji Lake National Park, where they assembled residents and delivered a sermon that included threats against thieves, smokers and Fulani herders, according to residents.

Sources, including witnesses, told PREMIUM TIMES that the armed men, dressed in military camouflage and turbans, arrived in the community on about 30 motorcycles at around 3 p.m.

This newspaper spoke with five residents of Zugurma, whose identities have been withheld for security reasons.

Although the group's identity has not been independently verified, local residents and security analysts believe the terrorists are members of Lakurawa, an armed grou...