Insurgence

  • The Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has vowed to implement the recommendations of the committee that investigated the August 1, 2024, End Bad Governance protest, which claimed 10 lives and resulted in the destruction of properties worth over ₦11 billion. Governor Yusuf made the commitment while receiving the committee’s report from its chairman, Justice…

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  •   For 26 years, the Tamil Tigers militants from Sri Lanka’s minority Tamil ethnic community fought for independence from the Buddhist, ethnically Sinhalese-majority state. Military forces under Rajapaksa’s brother, then-Secretary of Defense Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, brutally crushed them in 2009. The current state minister of defense, Ruwan Wijewardene, said “weakness” within Sri Lanka’s security apparatus led…

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