When Terror Crosses Our Borders: From School Kidnaps to General Murders
Sit down. This matters. In May 2026, 39 children and 7 teachers were abducted from three schools in Oriire, Oyo State. A maths teacher was beheaded in captivity, and a two-year-old child is still missing. That same month, Major General Rabe Abubakar and his wife were kidnapped on a Katsina road. He died in captivity yesterday. In April, ISWAP fighters directly attacked a military base in Borno and killed Brigadier General Oseni Braimah. This is not local crime or hungry boys looking for money. It is a funded, networked insurgency spreading south. ISWAP and Boko Haram now partner with bandit groups and connect to the Islamic State Sahel Province. Weapons and drugs flow from Libya, Mali and Niger, and every naira in ransom fuels the next operation. The Oyo-Kwara-Benin corridor is the next natural highway for this terror network. We need urgent regional intelligence sharing, hardened borders at flashpoints, and real military presence in every forest corridor. At what point do we treat this as the national emergency it already is?
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