The former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury in the United Kingdom, Bishop Justin Welby has said the suffering of the people of Plateau State is increasingly being heard around the world, stressing the need for concerted efforts to end the bloodshed and restore peace in the Middle Belt state of Nigeria.
The Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Most Rev. Stephen Mamza Dami, had raised great concerns about the government’s commitment to ending insecurity in Nigeria.
Catholic priests of Kaduna Archdiocese have defied the insecurity ravaging the Kaduna-Kachia axis by visiting the Awan community, where 12 people are still with bandits, to offer them hope.
An American entrepreneur and outspoken critic of the Bola Tinubu administration’s handling of insecurity in Nigeria has responded to a controversial amateur video circulating on social media, which allegedly depicts Christians being slaughtered by suspected Fulani militia, by emphasising that education is the key to deradicalisation.
Following widespread insecurity in Nigeria, the Trump administration has ordered the departure of non-emergency embassy staff from Abuja due to the “deteriorating security situation.”
In response to a question on the pressing security issues plaguing Nigeria, posed by Al Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hasan during an interview earlier today, presidential spokesman Daniel Bwala dismissed the concerns, suggesting that he is unaware of any such insecurity gripping the nation.
Catholic Bishops have warned against what they described as “unprecedented insecurities” and “astronomical rise in banditry and the wanton killings of innocent Nigerians.”
