Olushola Omogbehin
Following the meeting of the South-West Governors on Monday, their Northern counterparts have also called for emergency meeting on November 29, 2025, to be held in Kaduna State to address the increasing insecurity in their region.
According to the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Peter Ahemba, who confirmed this to Punch on Monday, the meeting would discuss the strategies that would be used to bring to an end, the increasing rate of banditry, kidnapping and other security challenges in the region that is gradually increasing lockdown of schools.
“The Northern Governors have fixed a meeting for Kaduna on November 29 to discuss the rising wave of insecurity in some parts of the country, especially within the northern part of the country.
“So, the meeting is expected to deliberate on concrete steps that could be taken to address the rising wave of kidnapping, banditry, and other forms of security threats in some parts of the country.
“For Nasarawa State, His Excellency, the Governor, who happens to be the Chairman of the North Central Governors Forum, had to cut short his trip from the G20 Summit that is going on in South Africa, to come back immediately and attend to the security challenges in some states of the northern part of the country.
“In line with that, His Excellency had to convene yet another emergency security meeting this afternoon, being Monday, the 24th of November 2025. So, the meeting deliberated on how to prevent the escalation of insecurity, the banditry activities that are being witnessed in some parts of the country, to strengthen surveillance measures and also enhance the support to security agencies to effectively tackle any eventual situation that may occur.
“So far so good, these are the efforts being made by both the Northern Governors Forum and Nasarawa State as a government,” Ahemba said.
In less than two weeks now, Northern region has experienced successive attacks on educational institutions across many states with many children kidnapped.
This has led to many states announcing the closedown of schools including where it has not taken place as a preventing measure.
Just a week ago, Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga in Kebbi State was raided with 24 girls abducted and the vice principal killed.
Barely 24 hours later, St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State was also attacked with over 300 students and staff kidnapped but 50 students later rescue by divine providence.
