Your weekly Nigeria and Sahel security briefing — 13 events, fully sourced, fully analysed. This week: nine people killed across Plateau State. Bandits abduct 28 in Sokoto — 16 still missing. A military intelligence ambush kills 18 bandits in Katsina. Security forces rescue 94+ kidnap victims in one week. The Nigerian Navy recovers 182,000 litres…
How does a cow walking into a farm turn into 50,000 deaths? In Episode 03 of The Middle Belt Files, we go underneath Nigeria’s deadliest ongoing conflict to ask the questions most people aren’t asking. Why did this crisis escalate so sharply after 2015? What does Lake Chad’s collapse have to do with villages burning…
Bandits have reportedly abducted 47 women in Mukura village, Kasuwan-Garba District of Mariga local government area of the state Niger state. The women were said to be working on a groundnut farm when they attacked by the bandits on Saturday around 3pm. Chairman of Mariga LGA, Alhaji Aliyu Bagga Muhamadu who confirmed the incident to…
The United States has said that it will continue to work with the Nigerian government to protect Christians in the Middle Belt. In a post on X on Tuesday, the US Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs, urged the federal government to sustain efforts to protect communities in Barkin Ladi LGA of Plateau state….
The Patrick Anum Advocacy Group has petitioned the Department of State Services (DSS), the Plateau State Police Command and the state Attorney-General, to investigate public statements attributed to the National Chairman of the Council of Ulama, Jama’atu Izalatul Bid’ah Wa’Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir. The group said the statements , particularly recent comments…
One of the surviving detainees among the miners arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Niger State has disclosed that 65 people were crammed into a single cell before operatives sprayed a substance inside and locked the door. Thirty-seven of the detainees subsequently died in custody. The survivor stated this on…
