Two years after the major attacks by non-state armed groups, a considerable number of forcibly displaced people have returned to Palma. Credit: UNHCR by Kevin Humphrey (johannesburg) Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Jan 17 (IPS) – There is cautious optimism regarding the conflict that has been raging in …
Read More »Insurgency: Over 23,000 people missing in Nigeria – FG
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, said that 23,000 people have been reported missing in less than a decade due to the insurgency in some parts of the country. Edu said this on Wednesday, August 31, 2023, in Abuja at a stakeholders engagement with the theme …
Read More »Insurgency: 23,000 people missing in Nigeria in 10 years
Edu said this in Abuja at a stakeholders engagement with the theme “Where are you now,” to mark the International Day of the Disappeared. She said that the figure represented half the number of missing people in the whole of Africa. Edu said that the report of …
Read More »How I confronted insurgency as COAS – Buratai
He said that the people also realised that President Muhammadu Buhari was passionate about restoring peace and stability to Borno and the entire North-East region. He said that there was also the reinvigoration of joint civil-military operations, composed of all operational formations of the Services. According to him, the operation …
Read More »?A bulk of all these problems emanated from the rural areas” – Ex-Army spokeman says Local Governments failed to check insurgency in Nigeria
A former spokesman of the Nigerian army, Retired Brigadier General Sani Usman has blamed the local governments for not doing enough to checkmate insurgency and other security concerns in the country. In an interview with Channels’ Sunrise Daily on Thursday, October 6, Usman stated that the Federal and state governments have …
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