The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, has declared that Kebbi is the most peaceful state in the entire Northwest part of the country”. Idris gave this verdict as he underscored the state government’s efforts at riding the state of bandits and other forms of terrorism. According to him, the state government …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and the World Food Program (WFP) have provided $1.6 million to help fight rising malnutrition and poverty in Katsina and Sokoto states. The areas have witnessed a rise in poverty and malnutrition as a result of a surge in banditry and internal displacement in the North West. Donation of palliative to …

Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Sunday, said military offensives alone could not sustainably resolve the security crisis in the North-West. Rather, he said it would take a mix of kinetic and non-kinetic strategies to restore calm in the troubled region. “Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, there cannot be a military solution to the crisis …