THE AMBUSH

Lakurawa lured ten security personnel into a kill zone in Kebbi. The Nigerian Army still hasn’t commented. The tip-off arrived first. Residents in Giro Masa, Shanga Local Government Area, Kebbi State, alerted security forces on Tuesday night: armed men had been...

THE BATTALION WAS THERE

Nine dead in Kwara and Niger. The army was already deployed. Two IED explosions on Monday morning. Woro community, Kaiama LGA, Kwara State: a commercial vehicle drove over a device at 6:30am. The driver killed instantly. A woman and her child injured. A second device...

FOURTH MOST TERRORISED COUNTRY ON EARTH

The report landed while the president was at Windsor. He still hasn’t responded. On March 19, the same day Tinubu sat down with Keir Starmer at Downing Street, the 2026 Global Terrorism Index was published by the Institute for Economics and Peace....

MALLAM FATORI HELD

61 fighters killed. Three commanders named. The border town fought for again. Nigerian troops repelled a major coordinated assault on Mallam Fatori, in Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State, this week. The insurgents advanced on foot from the Duguri general...

IBADAN IS NOT SAFE ANYMORE

Gunmen kidnapped four cocoa farmers from a government research institute. Two are still missing. It happened at noon on Wednesday. At the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria in Idi-Ayunre, Ibadan. Representatives from the Cocoa Farmers Association of Ogun State had...

18 DEAD IN JIBIA

Vigilantes killed repentant bandits. The reprisal came within hours. Jibia Local Government Area in Katsina had been peaceful for over a year. That matters. It means the security effort was working, at least by surface metrics. Then yesterday at noon, vigilantes...