On February 3rd, 2026, the Nigerian state watched—or perhaps looked away—as over 170 of its citizens were slaughtered in coordinated attacks across Woro and Nuku villages in Kwara State and Doma village in Katsina State. In a single blood-soaked day, more Nigerians died than in many recognized war zones.
The United Nations condemned the attacks. The international community expressed shock. And the Nigerian government? It offered "condolences" and "directives to security agencies." The same hollow words. The same performative grief. The same criminal inaction.
Let the numbers sink in: over 1 million Nigerians have been displaced by this administration's failure to secure the Northwest and Northcentral regions. Nearly 35 million people—more than the entire population of Ghana—now face severe food insecurity because farmers cannot access their fields.
This is not "insecurity." This is state-supervised genocide. When a government has the intelligence, the military capacity, and the constitutional mandate to protect its citizens, yet fails repeatedly, that failure becomes complicity.
The NLM demands: - The immediate declaration of a national security emergency with full military mobilization, not the performative "state of emergency" used to settle political scores in Rivers State. - The immediate resignation of the National Security Adviser and all Service Chiefs who have presided over this catastrophe. - An independent international investigation into whether these attacks constitute crimes against humanity. - Immediate humanitarian relief for the 1 million displaced persons, not in six months, not after a committee report—NOW.
President Tinubu told the National Economic Council that insecurity gives him "sleepless nights." We have news for the President: the dead don't sleep at all. Stop losing sleep and start losing the incompetent officials who have turned Nigeria into a killing field.
The NLM is keeping a record. Every village burned. Every life lost. Every official who failed. History will judge, and the people will remember.
