In this interview with Bayo Akinloye, a former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, John Campbell, says the most dangerous issue Nigeria faces is the deterioration of security across the country. He prescribes urgent steps that President Muhammadu Buhariâs administration should take to help a country on the brink of disintegration turn the corner. Campbell has written copiously about Nigeria. He is the author of the new book Nigeria and the Nation-State: Rethinking Diplomacy with the Postcolonial World, and writes the blog Africa in Transition. From 1975 to 2007, Campbell served as a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service officer. He served twice in Nigeria, as a political counsellor from 1988 to 1990 and as ambassador from 2004 to 2007. Campbell has also written Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know, co-authored with Matthew Page, and Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink. He edits both the Nigeria
Horror Week as 154 Civilians Killed, 174 Kidnapped (DETAILS)
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There were 174 kidnap victims and 154 civilian deaths from 71 violent attacks across the country in the last week, analysis of insecurity data from the Nigeria Security Tracker, NST, shows.
Leading the list with the highest number of attacks was Kaduna State, where nine attacks, 104 kidnaps and 10 civilian deaths occurred.
In Kaduna, students of Greenfield University, a private university, were kidnapped on April 21. The bodies of three abducted students were later found after being killed by the bandits. On Monday, April 26, two more students were found dead, increasing the number of the dead to five. Before the incidents, kidnappers had demanded N800 million ransom for the release of the students, reports said.
Armed men stormed her school in a kidnapping raid. Then she found her family in her captors’ hideout
Habiba Iliyasu, 15, was asleep in her school dormitory in northwestern Nigeria when a group of armed men burst in and ordered her and her schoolmates out of bed.
The schoolgirls 279 in total were rounded up by the men, who arrived at the school on motorbikes.
“They fired guns. Some of them came into the school while others stayed at the gate,” Habiba recalls of the ordeal on February 26, which prompted global outrage and prayers from Pope Francis for the release of the captives.
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