Niger State villages massacred while security forces arrive late or not at all

At least 30 people were killed in coordinated dawn attacks on multiple villages in Niger State over the weekend.

Armed bandits torched homes. Shot fleeing residents. Nigerian security forces arrived late — or not at all.

This is exactly why 100 US troops just arrived.

The pattern has become routine: villages wake to gunfire, flee into the bush, return to find neighbors dead and houses destroyed.

AP reported the attacks. What connects to Lassa fever deaths: both show the state failing to protect — whether from armed groups or disease outbreaks.

When dawn becomes the most dangerous time of day, when your own military can't protect you from gangs on motorcycles, you're living in a failed security state.

Foreign troops are here because Nigerian forces have proven unable or unwilling to stop the massacres.