States in the South-West region are jointly working out a strategy to combat the suspected rising influx of bandits and fighters from the Islamic State’s West Africa Province into some of the region’s forests.
It will be recalled that the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, warned that bandits fleeing military operations in the North-West were seeking refuge in the state.
While raising this concern at the at the 2025 annual inter-faith service for workers held at the Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, Makinde said, “During a security briefing this morning, I learnt that some bad elements from the North-West are relocating here due to military heat in their zones. But we will find and deal with them.”
The Ogun State government also said it had contacted relevant security agencies, including the military and the police.
The Department of State Services recently arrested 10 suspected members of ISWAP in Ilesa, Osun State.
The arrest came to into public consciousness when the DSS sought an order of a Federal High Court in Abuja to detain the suspects for 60 days, an order Justice Emeka Nwite granted last week Friday.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said that he is consulting with his counterparts in Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo and Ekiti states.
Making this known, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Gboyega Akosile, stated that the governor, who is also the chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum, receives daily intelligence on the state of security in the region
In the same vein, the Oodua People’s Congress urged all the six governors of the South-West to treat as a security emergency the building of camps inside Yoruba land forests by insurgents and terrorists fleeing the North, as it offered to help security agencies tackle the menace.
President Bola Tinubu says that Africa has what it takes to develop itself and should look inward to improve intra-African trade in the interest of the people and the continent. The President said this on his social media, adding that he had successful conversations with the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, on the eve of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW 2025). “We have the resources, the people, and the capacity. […]
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