Kwara State

Multiple Nigerian states have introduced emergency measures including nighttime curfews and school closures as armed attacks, herder killings, and banditry escalate across the country's middle belt and northern regions.

Armed groups have launched coordinated attacks across Nigeria, killing over 30 people in Zamfara State while Boko Haram incursions into Kwara communities have left border populations demanding enhanced protection from federal security forces.

Nigeria's military and police are conducting coordinated security operations across several states, including a new anti-terrorism initiative in Kwara State and harbour defence exercises in Lagos, while making arrests in high-profile murder cases.

Traditional leader Gani Adams warns of imminent terrorist attacks on rural communities in Kwara State, as separate incidents of football-related violence in the state capital underscore a broader pattern of impunity threatening Nigeria's social fabric.

A wave of violence across Nigeria has claimed multiple lives in recent days, with bandit attacks in Kwara State, a fatal mining collapse in Ebonyi, and the killing of a Nigerian national in South Africa exposing the country's deepening security challenges.