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As human activities increase, the world is undergoing rapid changes which result in the melting of glaciers across the globe. Consequently, the world is faced with climate change at an unprecedented...

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Food insecurity is a significant problem many Nigerians are currently fighting. Nigerians now discuss food prices the same way the British discuss the weather. The drivers of the problem are complex...

Introduction E merging from the dark depths of shutdowns, lay-offs, lock-downs and isolation in 2020, 2021 was supposed to be the year of hope - of some kind. It did its best iteration, with some...

Mali’s government said on Tuesday that it asked the country’s main Islamic body to open peace talks with leaders of al Qaeda’s local affiliate in an effort to end a decade of conflict. Malian...

At least 1409 students have been kidnapped from their schools in Nigeria since the first incident in the country’s latest school abduction epidemic which started in March 2020. In the 19 incidents up...

The SBM Jollof Index: Food prices enter geostationary orbit In Q2 2021, the prices of major food items continued to rise rapidly on average. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics,...

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND The thrust of this report is a survey of the movement of small arms and the relationship of this movement with mass atrocities and migration within Nigeria. These are...

In the wee hours of yesterday, terrorists abducted more than 50 students from Government Science College, Kagara in Niger State, just two months after the kidnap of at least 300 students from a...

Between the start of January and the end of November 2020, there were a total of 142 incident: involving Boko Haram or ISWAP insurgents in the three North. Eastern Nigerian states of Adamawa, Borno...

Currently, large parts of the Middle Belt region in central Nigeria– a broad expanse of territory that roughly incorporates the states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger,...

On Saturday, 17 February, 2018, the AFP news service ran a report that separatist groups in Nigeria’s neighbour, the Republic of Cameroon, had declared war in their push for an independent country...

Hassana Abdullahu was three days old. She was killed at Shefaran village, Numan Local Government Area, Adamawa State on Tuesday, 21 November, 2017. Shikaan Junior Kende was a year old. He was killed,...

Nigeria’s states have raised ₦791.2 billion through the issuance of bonds over the last 40 years to carry out infrastructural development projects or service loans. According to SEC data, the now...

Over the last few months, there has been a rise in attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group in the North East. More worrying is that in some cases, these attacks have been successful, with Boko...

The Boko Haram insurgency entered its seventh year at the beginning of 2016, and a number of important factors have had a substantial effect on developments on this front. In May 2015, Muhammadu...

Summary SBM Intelligence curated attacks and fatalities from those attacks in three categories of security challenges in 2016. Boko Haram Insurgency The pastoral conflict, involving cattle rustling...

Kaduna State is currently enmeshed in a humanitarian crisis. The southern part of the state has become the epicentre of deadly violence, most of it inflicted by herdsmen on farming communities. This...