By Charles Kumolu A better way of realising the real danger posed by insecurity in Nigeria is through figures. If you had lived in denial or underestimated the scale of the crisis, the perception changes henceforth. As you are reading this, Boko Haram may be on its next mission while bandits and suspected herdsmen may […]

The Kaduna State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the killing of a medical doctor’s wife by suspected bandits. The wife of the medical practitioner, Dr. Philip Ataga, was abducted last week by the hoodlums. The command spokesman, Yakubu Sabo, told journalists on Saturday that the command received the report earlier in the day and had […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Herdsmen attacking farmers in Kaduna state, Katsina state, and Zamfara state were reportedly supplied weapons from Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and Turkey. An independent investigative organisation, Conflict Armament Research (CAR) reported this in its newly published case study assessing the weapons used in herdsmen-farmers clashes in Nigeria. CAR report revealed that no lesser […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said “harder times’’ await bandits whose disruptive activities have brought sorrow to Nigerians, kept many away from their means of livelihood, and heightened insecurity in parts of the country.

ABUJA – CHAIRMAN, Senate Services Committee, Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, All Progressives Congress, APC, Niger East has again raised the alarm that his people were being killed everyday by armed bandits without responses from concerned authorities.