Sani visits Kurmin Wali Community, where bandits abducted 177 worshippers, assured of safe return of victims
Kaduna state governor Senator Uba Sani has visited Kurmin Wali, the community where 177 worshippers…
Sani visits Kurmin Wali Community, where bandits abducted 177 worshippers, assured of safe return of victims
Kaduna state governor Senator Uba Sani has visited Kurmin Wali, the community where 177 worshippers were abducted during an attack by bandits on three churches in the community on Sunday. Speaking during the visit on Wednesday, Sani assured that his administration, in collaboration with other security agencies, will ensure the safe return of the victims…
Group demands apology from police, council chairman for allegedly denying Kaduna church abductions
The Adara Development Association, ADA, has asked Muhammad Rabiu, the Kaduna state commissioner of police, and Dauda Madaki, chairman of Kajuru Local Government Area, to tender a public apology to the Adara people over what it described as the deliberate suppression of the truth surrounding the abduction of 177 worshippers in Kurmin Wali community, Kajuru…
Kajuru and the Retreat of Truth, By Abdul Mahmud
A garrisoned state should not wake up to the disappearance of one hundred and seventy-seven citizens and then drift into equivocation. Kaduna State is one of the most securitised states in Nigeria. Barracks dot its landscape. Checkpoints punctuate everywhere. Intelligence formations abound. When such a place loses an entire community to abductors, the first duty…
Cheap Food, Broken Farms: How Imports and Policy Are Destroying Nigerian Agriculture
Cheap food should be good news. But in Nigeria today, falling food prices are quietly destroying farmers, livelihoods, and the future of agriculture. In this episode of The Other Side, hosted by Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum, we examine a troubling paradox at the heart of Nigeria’s economy: why lower food prices — driven largely by massive…
Nigeria Spent $9 Million Lobbying Washington While Christians Were Being Killed at Home
Why would a country battling mass displacement, violent insurgency, and communal killings spend $9 million lobbying Washington—instead of rebuilding shattered lives at home? In this hard-hitting episode of The Other Side, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum examines the controversial decision by the Nigerian government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to hire a U.S. lobbying firm to counter…
CSW insists mass abduction occurred in Kajuru, accuses military of blocking access to community
Christian Solidarity Worldwide – Nigeria (CSW-N), has alleged that its team was denied access to Kurmin Wali community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where scores of residents were reportedly abducted by bandits. The organisation said the incident occurred during a fact finding visit to verify reports that armed men attacked three churches…