Stop illegal arrest of Plateau citizens, Reps tells Nigerian military

UK Govt support efforts to fight banditry, kidnapping in Kaduna, Plateau States

Buhari agrees to address House Of Representatives over insecurity

Nigeria's president says the military have located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped potentially hundreds of students from a school in the country's north-west.

The House has reached enough votes to make Donald Trump the first US president to be impeached twice. Lawmakers have accused Trump of "incitement of insurrection" following the Capitol storming.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has, finally, replaced the long-serving military chiefs long after critics and groups called for their sack owing to their inability to curb the growing insecurity in the country.⁣ ⁣ The Guardian’s Senior Security Correspondent, Sunday Odita gives his take on the “highly long overdue” changes in this chat with Adetoke ‘Laolu-Ogunranti.⁣

As Nigeria battles a domestic insurgency and wilting trust in its armed forces, President Buhari's overhaul has exposed exasperation with the military's ineffectiveness to guarantee security for the country.

How Nigerian military aircraft King Air 350 crashed in Abuja

Plateau fashion designers venture into face mask production

House Of Representatives asks citizens to get actively involved in securing Nigeria

Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said on Wednesday (August 25), in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes. The gunmen went house to house killing residents in Yelwa Zangam late on Tuesday (August 24), a military spokesman said. Troops struggled to get to the area as a bridge had been destroyed, he added.

Here are a few reasons to pick up a copy of The Guardian on Friday. Find these stories and much more when you grab a copy of The Guardian on Friday.⁣⁣

In this edition, we take you to discover the High Plains of Vercors in south-eastern France. In winter, this area is devoid of permanent human dwellings – only animals roam the mountains. It's an immaculate but hostile landscape spread over 170 km² that forest warden Brice Palhec knows well. He takes us behind the scenes of this wild world, the largest nature reserve in mainland France.