Security

One year after the federal government pledged to rebuild communities and resettle locals displaced by herdsmen, a single house has not been built anywhere in Benue and Plateau states. Now, the displaced persons live in fear that they may…
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Zamfara State has been a hotbed of killings and kidnappings. The media is awash with reportage of these incidents, daily reeling off figures of casualties. These lives are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have been gruesomely…
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Zamfara State has been a hotbed of killings and kidnappings. The media is awash with daily reportage of these incidents. These casualities are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have been gruesomely uprooted from their families.
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A COMMON thread of monumental loss runs through the stories of every emirate visited by the brutal bandits. They are the footprints left behind in these communities to say ‘we were once here’. These pains and losses, most often, change the…
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SEVENTY-SEVEN-year-old Mallam Risqua Mohammed buried his two sons on the same day. It was a hot afternoon of January 26, 2019. The graves of the two brothers were still fresh, just as the dampness caused by their blood on the brown soil of…
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By Femi Owolabi GANDOKI, a corporal with the special force unit of the Nigerian army, walks out of a sport betting shop, scans through the ticket in his hands, then nods as his face widens into a smile. The corporal and many other soldiers…
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IN Abuja and across some of the states, brand new police operational cars have been sighted with the name of the African richest man, Aliko Dangote, written on them as the donor. On the bonnet and both door sides of the white painted…
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WILLIE Obiano, Governor of Anambra State, earmarked N42.6 billion for his security votes in three years – money he will never be held to account and he can spend it however he wants without any consequence. The proposed three-year…
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By Musdapha Ilo THE ICIR can authoritatively report that 62 soldiers were killed in Saturday’s attack on a military base by the Boko Haram in Geidam local Government Area, Yobe State. Despite denials by the military about the attack on…
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By Peter Nkanga IN tears, 80-year-old Mama Abiri undressed. Before strangers, family, and friends alike, she clasped her frail breasts, and cried inconsolably, naked. With emotions only a mother could express, she cried in the native…
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