Insecurity: President Tinubu Urged to Declare State of Emergency in 19 Northern States

. Nine killed, 11 injured in attack on Kaduna community

Linus Aleke in Abuja and Yemi Kosoko in Jos

Northern media professionals yesterday called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on security across the 19 Northern states with immediate effect.

According to the media professionals, under the umbrella of the Arewa Broadcast Media Practitioners Forum (ABMPF), insecurity has been on an upward trajectory since the dawn of 2026, with daily killings and abductions of defenceless Nigerians in their villages by armed bandits and terrorists, particularly in Northern Nigeria.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja, the Chairman of ABMPF, Alhaji Abdullahi Yelwa, lamented that it had become increasingly evident that institutional, material and strategic interventions deployed to tackle insecurity had failed to stem the tide or reverse its worsening trajectory.