Niger State

I think we have seen small... versions of people trying to go beyond just raw mineral exports in Nigeria.

In Niger state, you know, they're building a processing plant there.

Not Niger, sorry, Nassarawa state.

So that's in north central Nigeria.

But now they're aides.

How did we get here?

you know so on and so on now now that you say that perhaps let us jump into nigeria first of all you know i saw i saw tinubu there are all jokes all the jokes about him being back in france it's one of the things you like to laugh about uh but uh but um There was a tragic incident in the MENA, you know, in MENA, a prison in MENA, Niger State, on September 17th, I think.

I mean, the stories, just the facts are just beginning, you know, to become clear in recent, in the last week or so.

The BBC's Makau Chi-Okafor is in Lagos.

I have spoken to the police in Niger State at the north-central region, and also to police in Zamfara, which is neighboring Niger in the upper northern part.

The police said more than twenty people were taken in Niger State.

Didn't give a specific number, and that's because they say they're still searching the villages where this attack happened.

But local media and resident reports have said in Niger State over forty people were taken, and very similarly in, in Zamfara State, over forty people were, were taken.

I'll give a bit of context.

It's quite no more so much of news, uh, you know, hearing about kidnap in northern part of Nigeria.

But we're seeing a spread of these kidnaps going not just from the northern parts s- into the central and now down south.

So more than 80 people are missing after two separate mass kidnappings in northern Nigeria.

They happened over the weekend in Niger State and in Zamfara State.

So the attack in Niger State, um, there are reports that at least 47 farmers were abducted on Saturday.

They were taken while harvesting peanuts, and a local source has said that most of them, most of those kidnapped were women.

Uh, this happened in an area called Mariga.

We see a different catalyst for civil collapse in Nigeria, one driven not by resource deprivation, but by institutional failure.

In Niger State, widespread protests have erupted following a severe tragedy in state custody.

A deeply troubling incident.

Yes.

Amen.

The Lord is showing me someone, you are watching from Niger State.

Your leg is rottening.

Your leg is rottening.

You literally can see the bones.

In the name of Jesus, Niger State, I decree and declare, be healed right now.

Amen.

By the power of the Holy Ghost, if you came here using a walking aid and you could not move, in the name of Jesus, let the life of God surge through your body.