Report: Health Worker Abductions Soar Nationwide

    Ninety one health workers were abducted and 15 others killed across 101 separate incidents of violence against healthcare in Nigeria between 2023 and 2025, according to conflict monitoring data compiled by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, laying bare the scale at which the country’s already fragile medical workforce is being drawn into…

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Igboho Says Iru Ekun Tops 80,000 Volunteers

  Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says more than 80,000 volunteers have now registered for his Iru Ekun Security Network, a figure that overshoots the 50,000 target the outfit set for itself and places the region’s newest community security experiment squarely within the national conversation on insecurity. In a…

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Rights Group Invokes 2022 Terrorism Act, Demands Probe Of Sheikh Gumi

  The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on Nigerian security agencies to arrest and investigate prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over recent televised comments the group described as sympathetic to terrorists and capable of undermining the country’s ongoing counter terrorism campaign. In a statement issued on Saturday by its National…

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