TWENTY-five people have been killed in renewed fighting between residents of two feuding towns in southwest Nigeria. Dozens more have been injured and are being treated in hospital after fighting broke out in the early hours of Thursday between residents of the towns of Ife and Modakeke, according to the reports in local newspapers. The feud between the two towns — both dominated by the ethnic Yoruba group — revolves around local politics and land ownership rights and has degenerated into a bloody dispute that has left well over 100 people dead in the past two months alone. Ife is the larger and more established town and residents see the people of Modakeke as settlers who should show them greater deference and acknowledge their precedence in arcane ethnic Yoruba tradition. Modakeke people, who moved to the area 150 years ago, consider their neighbours to be arrogant and say that they should be given more respect.