At least 22 people — including health workers, patients and security personnel — were killed in a late-night attack on Kawel village in Plateau State’s Bokkos LGA, as Nigeria’s widening security crisis simultaneously rattled Oyo, Ondo and other southern states.
Nigeria’s security nightmare refused to rest over the weekend — and the body count is rising.
No fewer than 22 persons, including health workers and security personnel, were killed when gunmen stormed Kawel village in Mushere District of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State late Sunday night. Several others sustained gunshot and machete wounds. Survivors have since been evacuated for medical attention.
What made this attack particularly chilling was its deliberate brutality. According to Vanguard, a Red Cross official involved in emergency response, speaking anonymously, revealed that the attackers specifically targeted the community’s Primary Health Care Centre — cutting down health workers on duty and patients mid-treatment. No one, it seemed, was off-limits.
Meanwhile, the wounds in Oyo State are still raw. Protests rocked Ibadan on Monday over the persistent kidnapping of residents — with over 40 pupils, students and teachers from three schools in Oriire LGA, abducted on May 15, 2026, still in captivity. South-West Coordinating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Adegoke Fayoade, offered some reassurance, saying all available resources are being deployed and that security agencies are closing in. But for anxious families, words alone aren’t enough.
Ondo State added another layer to an already grim picture. Suspected kidnappers launched two separate attacks in Owo — abducting a mother and her two children while also attempting to snatch a pastor.
Amid the chaos, Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Igboho weighed in, insisting his advocacy for South-West security is targeted solely at criminal elements and not directed at any ethnic group.
On another front, Catholic Bishops of the Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province fired back at the federal government’s policy of reintegrating repentant terrorists into society and security structures — calling it an affront on justice and a slap in the face of victims across the country.
This report was compiled from dispatches by The Guardian Nigeria, tracking the multi-state security crisis as it continues to unfold.
One weekend. Multiple states. Dozens of lives shattered. And still, no end in sight.
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