The Northern States Governors’ Forum and Northern Traditional Leaders Council are currently in an emergency meeting at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, amid escalating security concerns across the region.
The leaders are deliberating on the surge in banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, and farmer-herder clashes that have claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands in recent months.
The closed-door session, chaired by the Forum’s Chairman and Gombe State Governor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, on the traditional side is focused almost entirely on the deteriorating security situation in Northern Nigeria.
We reported that insecurity in the northern part of the country has heightened in the last couple of weeks.
Recall that at least 24 schoolgirls were abducted by bandits in Kebbi State. However, they reportedly regained their freedom a few days after their abduction.
Similarly, bandits whisked away no fewer than 200 school children from a Catholic private school in Niger State, out of which 50 reportedly escaped and have been reunited with their families.