•Terrorists Residents from security-affected communities in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State have reported that terrorists and bandits are enslaving locals to work on their farms. According to reports, a leader of a terrorist group collected over 20 bags of soybeans from farms in Allawa and neighbouring communities this year,...
•Fulani herdsman The governor of Jigawa State, Umar Namadi, says Fulani herdsmen who destroy farms belonging to farmers could be doing it to exact revenge for losing their grazing reserves. The governor said this while commenting on insecurity in the North-West on Channels Television today. “Deliberate like in form of revenge. The herders felt...
•Bandits No fewer than 165 farmers have lost their lives to attacks by bandits, who have hindered access to farms across the country, findings have shown. Farmers in Benue, Sokoto, Niger, Plateau, and other states, in separate interviews with our correspondents yesterday, lamented that they did not only lose crops to the rampaging bandits but ...

