In June, Abuja changed how corps members are posted. The reports cited here do not set out a new arrangement for protecting graduates on the trip to camp. On 29 June, the Federal Executive Council approved what the Youth Minister, Olawande Ayodele, called the…

A relative says the kidnappers holding about 20 graduates in Imo have cut their demand tenfold. Police say they’ve located the suspected camp and haven’t gone in. Police in Imo say they’ve located the suspected camp. Drones pinpointed it on Friday, and Commissioner of…

Niger State’s governor says 33 worshippers were taken from a mosque and 30 more from a market. Communities in Dekara have published a list, signed by the district youth president, naming 547 people they say were abducted. The governor of Niger State and the…

On 5 August the presidency announced the rescue of 308 people from the Kainji Lake National Park forest. Sixteen days later, communities near the park say 547 people were taken into it. The presidency’s statement said 163 of the 308 were abducted from Woro in Kwara…

Hours after a police security alert flagged the movement of armed elements toward Plateau, gunmen stopped a commercial bus outside Jos and killed nine passengers. At around 9:30pm on Sunday, gunmen opened fire on a Toyota bus at Dungus Junction in Kuru, Jos…

Police have named schools and NYSC camps as possible targets and ordered more security around them. What that means at any specific gate is still unclear. On September 13, the Nigeria Police Force sent an internal wireless message to zone commanders, mobile police…

Non-official NYSC trackers put the next orientation camp intake in the days ahead. The police alert naming NYSC camps as possible targets came first. According to unofficial NYSC mobilisation trackers, not NYSC’s own published calendar, online registration for…