The Methodist Church Nigeria, Diocese of Uyo, has reiterated its call on the federal and state governments to reassess and realign their security and intelligence strategies—particularly through the adoption of community policing—to curb the growing wave of terrorism and violent crimes across the country.

The UN on Monday said it needed roughly $160 million for Nigeria’s conflict-battered northeast, where the situation is at its worst in five years, according to the local head of the body’s humanitarian arm.

Blessing Nwachukwu, a Nigerian-American and real estate investor, has claimed that many Nigerians in Europe and America prefer to take caregiving and warehouse jobs because they are “intellectually lazy.”

Investors in the Oluwa Forest Reserve, Ondo State, have raised the alarm over the activities of illegal farmers, warning that the unrest is discouraging potential investments in the state’s agricultural sector.

Jury selection began Monday in New York in the blockbuster federal sex trafficking trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who stands accused of years of harrowing abuse.