Terror Financing: Between Justice And Credibility by Leadership Newspaper

The Federal Government’s recent designation of 48 individuals and entities as terror financiers, accompanied by asset-freezing directives, marks a significant escalation in Nigeria’s counterterrorism efforts. The move signals resolve and an attempt to move beyond kinetic military operations and confront the financial lifelines that sustain violent extremism.For years, Nigeria’s response to insecurity has been heavily …

Major Tijjani Balarabe: Unmasking ‘Mastermind’ Of Taraba Police Killings, Wadume Escape by Lami Sadiq

Captain Tijjani Balarabe His name has been everywhere and on every Nigerian’s lips. His picture is all over the social media, yet nobody knows Captain Tijjani Balarabe’s life before the Taraba saga that made him a focus of public attention and keeps him so for weeks on end. Daily Trust on Sunday has dug up …

The Wadume Scandal: A Brutal Yardstick Exposing Nigeria’s Criminal Negligence in Fighting Kidnapping, Safeguarding Citizens, and Crushing Institutional Impunity by Lawson Akhigbe

Captain Tijjani Balarabe Alhaji Hamisu Bala—better known as Wadume Seven years after soldiers under Captain Tijjani Balarabe gunned down three police officers and two civilians in Taraba State to free a handcuffed kidnap kingpin, the Wadume affair remains a blistering indictment of Nigeria’s rotten security system. In August 2019, troops opened fire on an unmarked …