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Nigeria: Over 800 people killed in attacks as at June 2023 – Report

From a recent security assessment, attacks took place across Nigeria in June 2023 and left more than 800 people dead.

Beacon Consulting, a security risk management and intelligence organization, produced a report that included 460 occurrences, including 239 kidnappings.

The attacks reportedly took place in 234 local government areas throughout Nigeria’s 36 states, including Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Although President Bola Tinubu pledged to give national security first priority, the country has already seen a significant number of attacks in the first month of his government.

Despite the hiring of new security chiefs, the government is still unable to stop attacks by Islamist organizations, bandits, and other criminal gangs.

In separate assaults on towns in central Benue and Plateau states on Saturday, almost to 40 people were slain.

More bodies are continually being found, the police in Benue state informed the BBC.

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