Climate change in recent time has acquired global currency as never before. In fact, its ramifications, aswell as its problems and consequences are well known, relatively unknown is its tendency to precipitateviolent conflict. This paper examined, at the theoretical and empirical levels the nexus between climatechange and conflict in Nigeria. More fundamentally, it showed how climate change accounts for theworsening incidence of conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in northern Nigeria. Anchoringanalysis on the eco-violence theory, we argued that much as we believe that the immediate cause ofFulani herdsmen and farmer conflict in northern Nigeria is natural resource scarcity that the remote causeis climate change which has through drought and desertification led to the worsening incidence of naturalresource scarcity and worsen conflict between the two. Our position is that since climate change hascome to stay, it is important for government to put more machinery on ground particularly in the northbecause over 70 percent of the nation’s food crop comes from the region by encouraging climate changemitigation and adaptation. Further, climatologic research should be enhanced to combat desertencroachment, and in the long run reduce inherent conflicts.