June 20, 2026
•Mining site killings, traditional ruler’s death, nipss attack, border violence signal deepening security crisis
By Golok Nanmwa
Jos — Plateau State has once again been pushed into a troubling cycle of coordinated violence, as gunmen carried out a series of deadly attacks across multiple locations within days, leaving miners, a traditional ruler, and security operatives dead, and raising fresh concerns over the worsening security situation in the state.
From Jos South mining communities to the Bokkos axis, the Kuru corridor near a national strategic institution, the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), one of Nigeria’s most sensitive policy training institutions. ,and extending to a border community in neighbouring Kaduna State, the attacks unfolded in a pattern that residents and observers now describe as “deeply alarming and increasingly coordinated.”
