Heinous acts perpetrated by insurgents in the Lake Chad Basin since 2009 have rendered millions of people homeless and properties worth billions of naira destroyed which affects the livelihood of survivors of the attacks. In an effort to ascertain the needs of victims of the insurgent attacks with the aim to assist them, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) has asked countries in the region to formulate an Action Plan on nine pillars for Regional...

A lighted candle which fell in a room around 10.pm where a woman and her four children were sleeping engulfed the room, killing all the occupants. The incident occurred in Ifesowapo community behind the ‘F’ Division Police Station, Tanke, Ilorin, Kwara State. The woman, identified as Mrs. Titilayo Adigun, a 40-year-old petty trader, died alongside four of her children in the inferno, while her husband, Fatai, is presently on admission at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital...

Displeased with the acts of governance by Chairman Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa, representatives of some communities in the local government area staged a peaceful protest, over what they termed indiscriminate sales of farmlands by council chairman Juda Amisa. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions; ‘No to sales of our ancestral lands, ‘Return back our 500 hecters of the land’. Ahijo Yakubu who spoke on behalf of the communities accused Amisa for allegedly selling...