The Northern States Governors’ Discussion board and Northern Traditional Leaders Council are at present in an emergency meeting at Sir Kashim Ibrahim Home, Kaduna, amid escalating security issues throughout the area.
The leaders are deliberating on the surge in banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, and farmer-herder clashes which have claimed a whole lot of lives and displaced 1000’s in latest months.
The closed-door session, chaired by the Discussion board’s Chairman and Gombe State Governor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’advert Abubakar III, on the traditional aspect is concentrated virtually completely on the deteriorating security scenario in Northern Nigeria.
DAILY POST studies that insecurity in the northern a part of the nation has heightened in the final couple of weeks.
Recall that a minimum of 24 schoolgirls have been kidnapped by bandits in Kebbi State. Nevertheless, they reportedly regained their freedom a number of days after their abduction.
Equally, bandits whisked away no fewer than 200 college kids from a Catholic personal college in Niger State, out of which 50 reportedly escaped and have been reunited with their households.
