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Thursday 09 April, 2026 America updated what it thinks of Nigeria yesterday. The list is longer than before. On the same Wednesday that opposition leaders stood in the rain outside INEC, the US State Department added five more Nigerian states to its Level 4...
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Wednesday 08 April, 2026 On April 4, ISWAP attacked the Nganzai Divisional Police Headquarters in Borno State. Not a road ambush. Not a farm raid. A police station. The kind of building that represents, in the most basic physical terms, the state’s presence in a...
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Tuesday April 07, 2026 Bandits took 150 people from Zamfara in one night. The communities are deserted. Kurfa Danya and Kurfan Magaji are two villages in Bukkuyum Local Government Area, Zamfara State. On Thursday night, April 3, gunmen raided both communities, firing...
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Monday 06 April, 2026 Nigeria spent N33 trillion on security since 2012. Here’s what Nigerians got. Between 2012 and 2026, Nigeria allocated approximately N33 trillion to defence and security. That’s the number. Take a moment with it. N33 trillion....
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Wednesday 01 April, 2026 Nigeria spent N5.41 trillion on defence in 2026. Thirteen people were killed at a wedding in Kaduna. Bandits arrived at a wedding in Kahir village in Kagarko Local Government Area, Kaduna State on the night of 30 March. They were...
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Palm Sunday in Jos. Again. The state’s response follows the same script it always does. The governor arrived in an armoured tank. That detail matters. Not because it’s unusual in Nigeria. Because of what it says about who the state was protecting when it...