Nigeria Is a Failed State The first step to restoring stability and security is recognizing that the government has lost control. By Robert I. Rotberg, founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and John Campbell, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign…
Nine people have been killed while five others were critically injured following attacks by bandits on communities in Zaria and Igabi Local Government Areas of Kaduna state. Security operatives were also said to have killed two bandits who were retreating to the forest. The commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan confirmed this…
Three persons, including a pastor, have been killed in fresh attacks by bandits on Suwa and Ding’ak communities, Mushere chiefdom of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau state. The attacks were said to have occurred on Friday August 8, around 2pm. Kefas Mallai, Chairman of Community Peace Observers in Bokkos, confirmed the killings in an interview…
A coalition of some civil society organisations (CSOs) in Kaduna state have asked security agencies to investigate and arrest an Islamic cleric behind an inciting video against, Christopher Musa, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and the Kataf ethnic nationality in Kaduna state. An Islamic cleric, had in virile video which trended on social media, alleged…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said that it would soon make its position public on the allegation that some public tertiary institutions were preventing Christians from erecting prayer chapels like their Muslim counterparts. It noted that though the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had requested all Governing Councils of Federal Government institutions of…
