Plateau lost about 12,000 lives in 24 years
Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has raised fresh alarm over the scale and persistence of insecurity in the State, revealing that nearly 12,000 people killed between 2001 and May 2025, and at least 420 communities have been attacked, leaving behind widespread displacement, loss of livelihoods, and deepened humanitarian crises.
Rising insecurity: Calls mount for FG to expose, crush fake bandit negotiators
By Adeola Badru Amid Nigeria’s escalating security crisis, prominent security expert, Abayomi Nurain Mumuni, has urged the Federal Government to take swift and decisive action against individuals allegedly sympathising with terrorists under the pretext of negotiation. While making the call in a statement issued yesterday through his media aide, Rasheed Abubakar, Mumuni condemned the increasing […]
Rehabilitation must respect human dignity, PRALARG tells government
By Mathew Johnson Prison Rehabilitation and Law-Abiding Organisation (PRALARG) International has raised fresh concerns over what it described as the degrading and undignified conditions faced by inmates in Nigerian correctional centres, warning that the country risks reinforcing criminal tendencies if rehabilitation continues to be handled without respect for human dignity. The organisation made the call […]
Nigeria’s climate policies ‘stuck on paper,’ stakeholders tell govt
By Adeola Badru Climate-change stakeholders and experts have pressed the Nigerian government to move beyond policy declarations and begin fully implementing and enforcing its climate-related commitments, arguing that only decisive action will secure a resilient socio-economic future and genuine sustainable development. The appeal was made in Ibadan yesterday, during a Validation Meeting for the Climate […]
Sahara Group deepens reforestation drive with Gelegele Forest Reserve partnership
Sahara Group has expanded its environmental sustainability agenda through a strategic partnership between its flagship Adopt-A-Forest Initiative and the Gelegele Forest Reserve in Edo State, Nigeria. The collaboration, which kicks off with the planting of 20,000 tree seedlings, is aimed at regenerating degraded areas of the reserve and reinforcing Sahara’s long-term commitment to nature-based climate […]
Kwara North Traditional Rulers, stakeholders task FG, State, LGs to flush out terrorists
By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin Traditional Rulers in Kwara North and other stakeholders have called for sustained and concerted efforts from the federal, State and Local Governments to ensure that terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements are flushed out from their forests. They also reaffirmed that, in the spirit of fairness, equity, and justice, it is […]
