<p>The article reports on the Tiv-Jukun and farmer-herder conflicts focusing on how the desires of the actors in these conflicts intersect in the Wukari-Logo section of the Benue-Taraba border in Nigeria and what lessons they offer to the literature on resource-related conflicts. It draws on extensive interviews and field observations and uses an assemblage approach that integrates political ecology and postcolonial perspectives. Results show that the conflict between Tiv and Jukun farmers (who are both farming communities) over indigenous identity, land and territory has become heightened in recent years. As the relationship between the Tiv and Fulani pastoralists has deteriorated, the latter have sought to strategically align their interests with those of the Jukun (especially Muslim Jukun) in order to gain and maintain access to grazing. We argue that these dynamics develop from the area’s proximity to the Benue River and its floodplains and colonial territorialization that introduced a fixed notion of boundary in the Tiv-Jukun affairs and the subsequent post-colonial boundary-makings. Policies targeted at resolving conflicts in this area should consider this intersection.</p>