By Suzan Edeh

Bauchi—The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has said that over 21 local governments in seven states of the North were under siege by either herdsmen or insurgents, saying the situation could escalate to other regions if the Federal Government failed to hasten action on the matter.

The states under attack include Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau and Kaduna among others.

Delivering an inaugural lecture with the theme: “National Conference: National Unity and the North,” organized by the Bauchi Generational Leadership Awareness Initiative,yesterday in Bauchi, a member of the forum, Mr Solomon Dalung, said that about 3.3 million Northerners had become refugees in some neighbouring countries.