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🟢 ConflictUpdate | 4/10
🇳🇬Boko Haram denies ceasefire agreement
Boko Haram denied reports of a ceasefire agreement with the Nigerian government, stating leadership had not authorized negotiations. -
State Police in Nigeria: Between Constitutional Necessity and Historical Fear by Lawson Akhigbe
Nigeria is once again standing at a constitutional crossroads. The growing insecurity across the federation, from banditry in the North-West, secessionist violence in the South-East, kidnapping in the South-South, farmer-herder clashes in the Middle Belt, and urban criminality in Lagos and Abuja, has pushed the debate over state police from intellectual seminars into the centre of national survival. -
The Guardian view on Nigeria’s kidnappings: a country can’t prosper when going to school is a danger | Editorial
By EditorialAbductions are resurging and may be spreading to new areas – with young children among the victims. A military response alone won’t work
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Nigeria Air Force Kills 36 Terrorists in Borno Strikes
Operation Hadin Kai carries out intelligence-led precision strikes across Borno State, neutralizing suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters in Monguno and Biu.
https://pulseofnations.lol/nigeria-air-force-kills-2/
#AirForce #BokoHaram #Borno #Iswap #Nigeria #PrecisionStrikes #Terrorism
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Boko Haram Ransom Tactics: A Multi-Faceted Comparison in the Context of Nigeria’s “Starve the Beast” Dilemma
Boko Haram’s kidnapping-for-ransom (KfR) tactics exemplify the shift Lawson Akhigbe describes in his April 2026 article: modern Nigerian insurgencies as “grotesque startups” where cash flow, not conviction, sustains the beast. What began as opportunistic grabs for foreign hostages evolved into a sophisticated, multi-purpose revenue engine intertwined with ideology, propaganda, recruitment, and psychological warfare. Yet factional splits, territorial losses, and competition with purely criminal bandits have diversified and, in some ways, industrialized these tactics. This analysis compares Boko Haram’s (Jama’atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da’awati wal-Jihad, or JAS, under Abubakar Shekau’s legacy) approaches to its ISWAP splinter, to northwestern bandits, and to historical/contemporary parallels (FARC, Somali pirates, AQIM). It draws on evolution, methods, motivations, outcomes, and policy implications—highlighting nuances like gendered violence, government complicity, and the high human cost of “starve the beast” strategies. -
Anatomy of Kidnapping: The Law and Enforcement by Lawson Akhigbe
In Nigeria, the legal framework explicitly criminalizes the payment of ransoms to kidnappers or terrorists.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/12/anatomy-of-kidnapping-the-law-and-enforcement-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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The Anatomy of Nigeria’s Kidnapping Industry by Lawson Akhigbe
Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed: "Last year, my nephew was kidnapped. That's my late sister's son, along with three other people. They went to a farm they had hired... and they were kidnapped just a few miles between Kaduna on the way to Kachia.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/12/the-anatomy-of-nigerias-kidnapping-industry-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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Girl, by Edna O’Brien
Irish novelist Edna O’Brien passed away two years ago. When I read of her death I didn’t know anything about her writing except that her first novel, Country Girls, had been banned in Ireland. That made me decide to read some of her work. As it happens the first book by her that I came across was the last she wrote, in 2019, which I bought over a year ago and has been sitting on my coffee table ever since. I started reading it this evening and found it so compelling that I couldn’t put it down until I had finished it.
Girl is set in Nigeria and is told in the voice of Maryam, a young girl who is kidnapped, along with her schoolmates, by the jihadists of Boko Haram. Maryam and the other schoolgirls are subjected to appaling horror and degradation described in unflinching detail. Eventually Maryam is given as a prize to a Boko Haram soldier Mahmoud, and bears his baby (simply called Babby). Maryam escapes with Babby with another girl, and drifts into and out of danger. Upon eventually returning home she is punished by her family, but the book ends on an optimistic note as she finds sanctuary.
The story is grim but O’Brien clearly had a great gift for storytelling, with subtle shifts in style as Maryam’s mental state shifts between horror, to relief, to sad reminiscence of happier times. In her acknowledgements at the end, the author explains that Maryam’s tale is actually a synthesis of accounts of various ordeals experienced by real-life women, to whom she spoke to in two visits to Nigeria, where she also learned something of the linguistic mannerisms of Maryam’s people. It is quite an achievement for an Irish woman in her late eighties to find a convincing voice for a young Nigerian girl subjected to pains surely beyond imagination. I think it’s a brilliantly moving book.
Girl has been criticised for O’Brien’s appropriation of the voice of a different culture, which (it has been claimed) makes it feel like an artificial exercise. A book of this kind by a Nigerian author would no doubt be more “authentic” in many important respects, but what I took from it (apart from the beautiful prose) is the emotional authenticity of the emotional tone and her desire to celebrate the strength of the many women whose struggles come together in the story of Maryam. The violent oppression of women is widespread in this world, so Maryam is a universal figure – a survivor.
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Nigerian security forces free more than 300 hostages abducted by militants
By Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan with news agenciesPresident hails ‘successful’ rescue as country battles endemic kidnapping for ransom and insecurity worsens
#Nigeria #BokoHaram #IslamicState #Africa #Worldnews #TheGuardian #EromoEgbejuleinAbidjanwithnewsagencies
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The Eternal Quartermaster By Lawson Akhigbe
Nigeria's army has been described as mighty on paper many of its soldiers 'ghosts' who exist only on the payroll, much of its equipment stolen and sold to insurgents."The Economist, October 2021https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/01/the-eternal-quartermaster-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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IS Responds to Military Pressure in Nigeria
Despite Nigeria's assessment, the emerging consensus was that Lakurawa was not a unified entity but rather an umbrella term, and that attacks attributed to the group were likely perpetrated by a mix of Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP). JNIM, bandits. and potentially a separate new group operating under the label without claiming responsibility.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/07/25/is-responds-to-military-pressure-in-nigeria/