•Nigerian Senate
Barring last minute change, the Senate would today begin a three-day national summit proffer solutions to what it described as the deteriorating security challenges bedeviling the country.
According to a statement by Kenny Okolugbo of the Senate President’s media office, the summit will aggregate the findings and recommendations from similar summits it already held in the six geopolitical zones.
“The 10th Senate has concluded the zonal hearings in the six zones of the country,” Okolugbo said.
He added that traditional rulers were not left out of the hearings because “insecurity can only be stemmed by attacking its causes at the grassroots level.”
According to him, the wake up call by the tweet from President Donald Trump, was not the only alarm sounded on the killings in Nigeria.
He said: “The reality is that this grave situation had been presented on the floor of the 10th Senate by Senator Jimoh Ibrahim as far back as May 2025.
“The issue with us as a nation is that we do not pay attention to internal solutions, we get more excited at international interventions.
“We have killings of Christians and Muslims alike, but the pain is felt even more because the Senate President today is the highest ranked Christian in the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, being the number three citizen.
“Senator Godswill Akpabio said after that motion that ‘the soldier that dies is someone’s brother, son, husband, and in the case of a female soldier, daughter, wife, and sister. Their death is just as painful as the deaths of the citizens killed.’”
