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Despite repeated assurances from President Muhammadu Buhari and the security chiefs, many Nigerians are at the mercy of bandits, terrorists and other criminals who are ravaging many parts of the country.
Kidnappers abducted over 1,386 Nigerians from January to December 2019; This number increased in 2020 at 1,984 persons in just eleven months, estimating over ₦13.5 million in ransom between January – May; Abductions have bled Nigeria over $18 million in the last nine years (June 2011- March 2020); Experts have linked insecurity to Nigeria’s economic woes; In all, intelligence-based security initiatives and poverty alleviation programmes are a way to address the spate of kidnapping in the country.
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Today’s N2P continues with a thread of insecurity observed earlier. Also present is a theme of COVID-defiant wins, albeit small. And on the financial scene, Nigeria’s TSA account is doing well; customs fights the good fight.
