Nigeria is still the third most terrorised country in the world, according to the 2018 Global Terrorism Index.The report, released on Wednesday, blamed the spate of terrorism in Nigeria and the "increase in violence involving Fulani extremists even as deaths committed by Boko Haram are falling".Nigeria is ranked only below Iraq and Afghanistan, both in first and second positions respectively.In [...]
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General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma – former Chief of Staff of Nigerian Army, and erstwhile Minister of Defence – will today address the British House of Lords on the seemingly intractable herdsmen attack and its implications for ethnic minority rights and stability in Nigeria. General Danjuma will be accompanied to the forum by Archbishop Ben Kwashi, the Anglican Bishop of Jos.The [...]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the government will not relent until it provides security for the citizens.In a statement his team released on Monday, Mohammed said the government would not fall for the antics of the opposition to distract it.He said the opposition is using fake news to blame killings in certain parts of the country on herdsmen.The minister [...]

Sarah Omakwu, senior pastor of the Family Worship Centre, knelt in the church as a mother to beg President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the killings in Plateau and across Nigeria.Speaking at the black thanksgiving service of the Abuja-based Church on Sunday, the pastor said she could be killed at any time and nothing will happen, because the value of life in Nigeria [...]

No matter how hard President Muhammadu Buhari tries, or no matter the frequency with which his spokesmen finger the opposition, the final months of his tenure in office will continue to be dominated, in part, by herdsmen attacks(Yes, someone tell the President I wrote “herdsmen attacks” — not “herder-farmer crisis”.). Since suspected herdsmen killed more than 100 across three local [...]

Cambridge University Nigeria Student Society (CUNS) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the incessant killings of Nigerians across the nation.Expressing themselves via a peaceful protest on Friday in Cambridge, UK, the students condemned the recent killings in Plateau state, the northcentral, and the rest of the country.The students stated that "visitation is not protection," and asked the government to do [...]

BY EDWARD ONOJAThe killings by suspected herdsmen across the north-central and elsewhere in Nigeria are tragic and worrisome at the same time. Tragic because no one should have to lose his or her life or loved ones to such cowardly attacks in our nation. Worrisome because we have left the common enemy to fight one another along political, ethnic and [...]

They struck again in two different parts of the country on different turfs. In Plateau, the bloody revenge mission by Miyetti Allah for the right of passage for cows left at least 100 dead. In Abuja, it came to light, again, that lawmakers who have been a thorn in the side of the public had, after seven months, passed a budget [...]

The first approach to solving a security problem is stripping it of all political pretences and nuances. The killings in Plateau, Benue, Zamfara and other places should be properly phrased.The casual resort to tagging or reducing mass killings or massacres to "farmers-herders clashes" is sadism. It mocks the dead and drives a dagger deeper into the wounds of the [...]