SAT FEB 21 2026-theGBJournal| As Nigeria reels from a fresh wave of coordinated terrorist assaults Amnesty International records show that at least 323 people have been killed in different attacks on rural communities in: Benue, Katsina, Kwara, Kebbi, Niger and Zamfara state, twenty days into February.
The attacks, which targeted vulnerable rural communities across multiple states, left homes torched, families displaced, and local economies shattered.
Amnesty Internal blames the rising death toll on President Bola Tinubu and his government, saying that the administration clearly have no effective plan for ending years of atrocities by armed groups and gunmen that have killed thousands of people.
”Incessant killings and the shocking failure of the authorities to end them and bring suspected perpetrators to justice have been and continues to be a threat to the right to life in Nigeria,” Amnesty International adds.
The rising fatalities have reignited urgent calls for a more decisive security strategy, intelligence coordination, and rapid military deployment to troubled regions.
Analysts warn that beyond the tragic human toll, the sustained attacks threaten food production, investor confidence, and already fragile social stability in impacted communities.
Since 2020, Amnesty International has been documenting the horrifying pattern in which, attackers invade villages on motorcycles and heavily armed. They shoot sporadically at people, abduct women and girls, set houses on fire, steal livestock, destroy farm produce and abduct villagers for ransom.
In recent cases, villagers receive ‘warning letters’ from armed groups — ahead of attacks. Such attacks take hours. One of recent attacks on some villages in Niger state started from 3:00am to 10:00am.
Most villagers told Amnesty International that the government left them at the mercy of their attackers.
The government has an obligation to protect its population. The rising death toll in the north of Nigeria shows just how badly the authorities are failing in this responsibility.
Meanwhile 50 have been reportedly killed in another brazen attack on Dutsin Dan Ajiya Village, Anka Local Government Local Area of Zamfara State on Friday.
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