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There is growing anxiety following the recent spike in terror attacks after the 2023 general elections and the cash crunch that destabilised the nation’s

Residents of Adunu line up to cast their ballots in Adunu Feb. 25, 2023. / Courtesy of Father Dauda Musa Bahago.Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 6, 2023 / 03:00 am (CNA).Armed bandits killed one person and kidnapped more than 100 others in a March 14 raid on a predominantly Catholic town in north-central Nigeria, according to a Catholic priest and other local sources.Father Dauda Musa Bahago, a coordinator for the Justice, Development, and Peace Commission, a Catholic aid organization, told CNA the attack took place in his hometown of Adunu, in Niger state, during a memorial Mass in a nearb...

Adunu — a town of 5,000 people approximately 20 miles east of Minna, the Niger state capital — is more than half Catholic with Protestant and Muslim residents...

Bandits who abducted some villagers from Adunu, Kwagana, Nanati and Beni in Paikoro and Munya local government areas of Niger State are demanding N100

Adelowo Oladipo - Minna No fewer than eight communities in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State have been run down and taken over by armed men