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Over 100 Killed Across Four Nigerian States as Violence Ushers in 2026

By The Insight Team January 5, 2026 154

mostbet mostbet sekabet mostbet mostbet mostbet mostbet mostbet By Emmanuel Kwada Nigeria entered the new year amid widespread mourning following a series of coordinated and deadly attacks across parts of the country’s northern and North-Central regions. Armed bandits and jihadist groups carried out violent raids in Niger, Plateau, Kebbi, and Adamawa states, leaving more than 100 people dead, scores abducted, and thousands displaced Continue Reading

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Boko Haram’s Brutal Third Strike in Six Days Leaves Hong, Adamawa in Ruins: 23 Killed, Scores Injured

By The Insight Team December 31, 2025 101

By Emmanuel Kwada  Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have launched their third major assault in less than a week on communities in Hong Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa State, marking a troubling escalation in violence as 2025 draws to a close. The most recent raid targeted the villages of Mubang, Zah, Yadul, and Kijing on […]Continue Reading

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Tinubu Declares Nationwide State of Emergency on Security, Orders Massive Army, Police Recruitment

By The Insight Team November 26, 2025 218

By Emmanuel Kwada President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday declared a nationwide security emergency in response to the recent surge in violent attacks and kidnappings across several states. The President announced sweeping measures, including mass recruitment into the police and armed forces, accelerated training programmes, and the deployment of forest guards to confront Continue Reading

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Forgotten Futures: The Plight of Taraba’s Children in IDP Camps

By The Insight Team May 28, 2025 465

...We’ve been here for over five years and counting. Our children have never seen the inside of a classroom.    By Emmanuel Kwada As dawn breaks over the rolling hills of southern Taraba, 14-year-old Terseer Mtomga from Tor-Musa village in Wukari Local Government Area squats beside a pot of boiling yam in a makeshift IDP […]Continue Reading

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

By The Insight Team April 21, 2025 774

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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Kidnapping Epidemic: NYSC Corps Members Bearing the Brunt

By The Insight Team February 7, 2025 1002

By Emmanuel Kwada The plight of corps members being kidnapped and murdered has become increasingly perilous across the states in Nigeria, with no place exempted, as the harrowing news greets the air every day, with little or nothing being done about it by the authorities. In a shocking revelation that has sent ripples of fear […]Continue Reading

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‘Why Chibok Schoolgirls were abducted’- by former Borno State Governor Shettima

By The Insight Team July 10, 2022 671

(This is an excerpt of an interview Governor Shettima granted Theophilus Abbah and published in Daily Trust on Sunday in May 2014) It’s about two weeks since Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram. Is there any good news for their parents? ‎That incident is one nightmare that troubles me so much as a father […]Continue Reading

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A country that is bleeding

By The Insight Team May 11, 2021 1152

By Eric Teniola On April 22 this year, the Minister of Defense, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (71) (rtd) was on the spot. He told State House correspondents that “Nigeria is bleeding”. During the media chat, he informed us all that he has been a lawyer for the past thirty-four years. I guess the country […]Continue Reading

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‘How to curtail insecurity in South-East’

By The Insight Team April 15, 2021 741

Barrister Charles Odenigbo is a veteran journalist and lawyer. He is enthusiastic about unity, justice and economic development in Nigeria. In this interview, he speaks on what both federal and state governments should do to stem insecurity in the South-East.   How does the current insecurity affect national cohesion and the economy of the South-East? […]Continue Reading

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The Intelligence Community and the New Challenges

By The Insight Team April 10, 2021 712

By Eric Teniola The crisis is an opportunity to make good on big changes. So never waste a good crisis. The late British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill (30 November 1874-24 January 1965) once wrote,” never let a good crisis go to waste”. After the brutal assassination of General Murtala Ramat Mohammed (8 November 1938 […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram, Zulum’s eruptions and classified outbursts

By The Insight Team August 14, 2020 665

By Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it” That was Jack Nicholson when he starred as Col Nathan R Jessep in […]Continue Reading

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ISS: New insights into how communities resist Boko Haram

By The Insight Team July 27, 2020 651

By Akinola Olojo, Senior Researcher, ISS Communities affected by violent extremism are frequently considered to have risk factors linked to socio-economic deprivation, bad governance, and religious radicalization. These factors prevail across the whole of northern Nigeria, and in the north-eastern Bauchi and Gombe states. However, despite Boko Haram’s factions being active Continue Reading