The fight against thuggery and substance abuse by the Kano State Joint Task Force Committee on Security Restoration and Youth Rehabilitation has yielded positive results with the arrest of 31 suspects during a series of coordinated raids across key areas in the state. Dr. Yusuf Ibrahim Kofar Mata, chairman of the task force while speaking on the operations that took place between May 10 and May 14, targeted known criminal hideouts in Dorayi, Ja’in, Sharada,...

No fewer than 23 farmers and fishermen in the village of Malam Karanti near Baga, in the Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, have been killed by terrorists Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP. It was reported that Malam Karanti is an ISWAP enclave where civilians often farm and fish despite risks. The terrorists were said to have assembled the farmers and fishermen in Malam Karanti, a village five kilometres from Baga, and...