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Stop Cowardice, Kick Killer Herdsmen Out, Ohanaeze Tells Governors

By The Insight Team May 2, 2025 351

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has issued a scathing rebuke to Southeast governors over what it describes as their cowardly silence in the face of escalating attacks by killer Fulani herdsmen across Igbo communities. In a strongly worded statement issued by its President General, Chief Omenazu Jackson, Ohanaeze accused the governors Continue Reading

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Data: Now, herdsmen shed more blood than bandits and terrorists

By The Insight Team April 21, 2025 558

Key Points:  Over 800 Killed, Scores Injured, Many Kidnapped in 48 Days  North-Central is epicenter of killings  Governors lament; no solution in sight By Emmanuel Kwada Nigeria is grappling with an alarming surge in violence, with no fewer than 872 persons killed, hundreds injured, and over 350 abducted across multiple states in the last 48 […]Continue Reading

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Governor Alia’s ‘brothers in the bush’ unleash terror on Benue

By The Insight Team April 10, 2024 749

Key points About 250 killed between February and early April, 2024 12 Local Government Areas under siege Ultimatum to foreign herders to leave fall on deaf ears ‘Governor does not visit victims’ ‘Crisis can’t end until government comes up with a data-based economic policy’ He is doing his best – spokesman By Charity Roberts On […]Continue Reading

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Save Kogi East from herders attack now, Uk’omu Igala tells Tinubu

By The Insight Team February 23, 2024 456

By Emmanuel Kwada The Uk’Omu Igala Organization (UIO) has sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) message to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the murderous and destructive activities of strange Fulani herders in Omala and Dekina Local Government Areas of Kogi State. In a statement signed by its National Leader, Elder David Abutu, and National Director […]Continue Reading

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Middle Belt Nigeria: A Region On The Brink Of Collapse

By The Insight Team May 26, 2023 1197

…A call for proactive engagement of international and local NGOs The Middle Belt is a multi-ethnic religious geographical area in Nigeria that comprises states such as Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kwara, and the Federal Capital Territory. It is a heterogeneous section with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds speaking over 230 languages and serving as Continue Reading

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2023 election failed to meet the yearnings of Nigerians – Bishop Kukah

By The Insight Team April 11, 2023 544

  (Text of Bishop Kukah’s Easter Sermon) Every election brings more frustration and anger and the victims all turn on themselves. The circles have gone on and on. Little wonder, fewer and fewer citizens want to risk their lives for what promises them only blood, tears, injury and death. While citizens seek outlets to express […]Continue Reading

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Insecurity: Idoma to send delegation to NSA; declares fasting and prayer

By The Insight Team April 11, 2023 595

By Daniel Adaji Prominent sons and daughters of Idoma on Saturday gathered in Otukpo Benue State,  and discussed the spate killings in Oturkpo, Apa, and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue State where above 134 persons were killed by Fulani militia. The killing that took place during this year’s Easter celebration has been condemned by […]Continue Reading

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No help is near as Fulani bandits massacre over 134 in Benue, Kogi communities during Easter

By The Insight Team April 10, 2023 687

…Herdsmen destroy Oganenigu in Kogi State, four years after similar mayhem Daniel Adaji Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom is counting his last days out of Government House, Makurdi, not without floods of tears over yet another massacre of 134 persons in Oturkpo, Apa, and Guma Local Government Areas of the State. The latest deaths, blamed […]Continue Reading

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7 Lessons from Algeria in Fight against Bandits and Terrorists

By The Insight Team July 9, 2022 584

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD The 1990s was aptly tagged the ‘Black Decade’ in Algeria. It was not just black, it was deadly and pernicious. It was a decade of fire and brimstone when terrorists’ fire engulfed the country from Algiers, its capital city, to rural and isolated communities. Riding on the wings of warped Islamic […]Continue Reading

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The Dilemma Over Grazing Laws

By The Insight Team June 11, 2021 575

By Eric Teniola President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has often referred to the gazette that published Nigeria’s grazing laws. In his television interview to mark his 6th anniversary in power, he referred to the so-called gazette.  The President was echoing what his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari said on April 1, 2018, when he was […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria: Religious Extremism Fueling Violence

By The Insight Team May 17, 2021 578

Escalating bloodshed in Nigeria is fueled in part by religious extremism – and the United States must recognize this in order to achieve peace, says the former U.S. religious freedom ambassador. “This thing’s going to blow up on us, as we would say, ‘bigger than Dallas,’ if we don’t get into there and really start […]Continue Reading