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Across the North-West last month, Zamfara and Katsina saw the most kidnapping activity, clustered around Maru and Jibia. Kaduna followed, concentrated on the Abuja-Kaduna corridor.
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A polytechnic student was fatally stabbed outside a NANS convention venue in Osogbo after a brief altercation with a member of the event's security committee, with a NANS official suggesting the incident was cult-related.
The military reportedly carried out airstrikes on suspected bandit camps in forests spanning Shagari LGA of Sokoto State and around Gizazza in Bukkuyum LGA of Zamfara State, with residents reporting smoke and fire from the strikes.
Plateau State Police Command recovered a GPMG, AK-47 rifles, and other weapons from suspected bandits during an intelligence-led operation in Barkin Ladi LGA.
A university student was hospitalised in Makurdi with severe burns after allegedly being scalded with hot water by her cousin and co-tenant during a disagreement.
Troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA rescued 16 civilians from attempted abductions in Kaura Namoda and Tsafe LGAs of Zamfara State, and repelled a separate terrorist attack in Tambuwal LGA of Sokoto State where two civilians were wounded.
Nigerian Army troops intercepted a vehicle carrying ₦9.89 million ransom meant for kidnappers holding three siblings in Kaduna, and rescued 27 kidnap victims in separate operations across Kaduna, Zamfara and Kebbi states between August 27-28.
The story behind the data.
The Cost of a Corridor: What Nigeria's Highway Attacks Mean for Freight and Fleets
For any business that moves goods or people by road in Nigeria, the highway is the single largest point of exposure, and it is not evenly dangerous. The threat concentrates on specific corridors, at specific hours, in ways the incident record makes visible. Here is what the data says about the routes that carry the most risk, and how a fleet turns that into a decision.
Duty of Care in Nigeria: What the Law Expects, and What the Data Demands
Any organisation with staff in Nigeria, or sending them there, carries a duty of care: a legal and moral obligation to take reasonable steps to keep them safe. In a country this large and this uneven, "reasonable" is not a vague standard. The incident record defines it. Here is what duty of care actually requires on Nigerian ground, and how to meet it.
Where to Operate, Where to Harden: Reading Nigeria's Risk Map for Business
Companies expanding in Nigeria tend to read its security map two ways, both wrong: as a country uniformly dangerous, or as one where the busiest city is the riskiest. The incident record says neither. It says the threat is specific, it varies by state, and the mitigation that works in one place is useless in the next. Here is how to read it for a siting, hardening or expansion decision.
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$ curl api.openwatch.ng/v1/incidents?\ state=lagos&since=24h { "id": "inc_8f3ac1", "type": "kidnapping", "state": "Lagos", "lat": 6.5244, "lng": 3.3792, "confidence": 0.91, "published_at": "2026-06-26T14:32:00Z" }