Is El-Rufai’s no-negotiation with kidnappers working ?
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Tue May 04 2021
The abduction and brutal killing of some of the students of Greenfield University is one of the many pictures of the North that is painted in the colour of blood. Coming at a time when students abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation are yet to be released by kidnappers, it highlights the depth to which we have descended in this trench of insecurity. This, to a very scary extent, is a head-on collision with the status of Kaduna State as Nigeria’s “Centre of Learning” given the large number of institutions of learning that the state is host to. In literal terms, Kaduna State is not just a centre of learning; it is also the heart of security training in Nigeria owing to the presence of military and security training institutions in the state, notably, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Airforce Institute of Technology, DSS Training School, and the Armed Forces Command and Staff College i
Ehi Braimah
Recently, Abubakar Sani Bello, the governor of Niger State, lamented openly that no place was safe anymore – not even Abuja. As you watch the video clip where the governor spoke to reporters with so much uneasiness, you immediately sense a feeling of frustration and hopelessness. Sani Bello is disturbed because Boko Haram, the terrorist group, has claimed Kaure as territory in Niger State and hoisted their flag.
The matter that is dominating discussions everywhere – both at home and abroad is the scary security situation in the country. There is no place that is free from acts of vandalism, mayhem, gun violence, kidnapping, insurgency and banditry. We are in a state of war and our land has been turned into a killing field. Nigerians are worried. Do I sound like an alarmist? I don’t think so. The fearful part is that we are confronted daily with an escalation of widespread criminality across the country which includes non-state actors who are taking the laws into
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Recently, Abubakar Sani Bello, the governor of Niger State, lamented openly that no place was safe anymore – not even Abuja. As you watch the video clip where the governor spoke to reporters with so much uneasiness, you immediately sense a feeling of frustration and hopelessness. Sani Bello is disturbed because Boko Haram, the terrorist group, has claimed Kaure as a territory in Niger State and hoisted their flag.
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The matter that is dominating discussions everywhere – both at home and abroad is the scary security situation in the country. There is no place that is free from acts of vandalism, mayhem, gun violence, kidnapping, insurgency, and banditry. We are in a state of war and our land has been turned into a killing field. Nigerians are worried. Do I sound like an alarmist? I don’t think so. The fearful part is that we are confronted daily with an escalation of widespread criminality across the country which includes non-state actors who are taking the laws
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