Parents differ on the return of children to school after the holiday ‘Without the adequate provision of security, no parent will allow his child to go to school again’ ‘We ’re worried, but that won’t stop me from sending my…
Almost a month since telecommunication operations were shut down in Zamfara State to tackle banditry and kidnapping bedeviling the state and the neighbouring Katsina and Sokoto, life has not been easy for citizens in those places. In addition to the…
As the insecurity occasioned by rural banditry bites harder, some residents of frontline local governments in Katsina State have either abandoned their farms or resort to forceful payment of taxes to bandits. According to the Katsina State Government, some 5,884…
As the international community prepares to mark the second International Day to Protect Education from Attacks on September 8, and Nigeria sets to host the Fourth International Conference on Safe Schools Declaration on October 25-27, parents, communities, students and stakeholders…
Residents of Sabon Birni in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State are living in pain as life turned sour for them when bandits stormed the town and neighboring villages in their numbers and unleashed terror, leaving tales of…
Bandits and other criminals have displaced thousands of students in parts of the North West and North Central and also disrupted the academic calendar of schools, Daily Trust reports. Findings revealed that the bandits who have killed hundreds of people and dislodged…
Experts in the livestock sector are advising that the federal government should kick-start the process of putting to use the unused arable lands as one of the solutions to the grazing crisis in the country. They said if recovering the…
Over 50,000 residents of 17 communities in Sabon Birni Local Government Area have relocated to the Niger Republic over incessant bandits’ attacks. This was disclosed by the member representing Sabon Birni North constituency at the Sokoto State House of Assembly,…
Following banditry menace in some parts of the North- West and North-Central, the Kaduna State Government shut down schools in the state. Later, it postponed resumption due to the ongoing military operations against the bandits, all for security reasons. But…
Time, it is said, heals all wounds. But for some victims of the Shi’a-military clashes of 2015 in Zaria, five years have not done the magic. In this video we take a look at what has happened since the event…
