





Two thousand two hundred and sixty-six lives were lost in Zamfara in just six months. This is the story of a grinding war of attrition, where...






Community policing in Nigeria leans on a patchwork of local vigilantes, from Amotekun to informal village groups. This messy partnership fills a security vacuum but operates...






Forty-seven attacks on schools in two years. The conversation about protection is now a daily calculation of risk for families. Real safety needs more than gates—it...






N2 trillion vanishes yearly from Nigeria's economy, funding violence from Zamfara to Plateau. This is the shadow trade of illegal mining, where holes in the ground...






3.6 million displaced people form a nation within Nigeria, a mobile population creating security vacuums. From conflict to climate change, this crisis fuels instability, straining the...






Two thousand former fighters have been released, but the real test of Nigeria's deradicalization program happens in the communities they return to. The gap between official...






The same drones used to film weddings in Lagos are now weapons in a new kind of war. Insurgents buy them openly, fly them across invisible...