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Terrorists and bandits killed 2,266 persons in the first six months of 2025, a report has said.

Reuters said more people were killed by bandits or insurgents in Nigeria in the first half of the year than in all of 2024, according to figures released on Tuesday by Nigeria’s human rights agency.

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu, was said to have disclosed the figures during a presentation in Abuja, calling for urgent and decisive action from the government.

According to the figures, at least 2,266 people were killed in the first half of 2025, compared to 1,083 in the first half of 2024 and 2,194 for the full year last year.

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The report showed that Nigeria’s security situation worsened lately with 606 people killed last month alone, including in attacks by gunmen on the Yelewata and Dauda communities in Benue State, where around 200 people were killed.

“These were not mere figures on a report; they were fathers, mothers, children, and breadwinners; families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and futures extinguished in moments of senseless brutality,” Ojukwu was quoted.

The agency reported 857 people abducted in the first half of 2025, though this was a decline from 1,461 in the same period last year.

The report also noted a trend of attacks against law enforcement and local security forces, with more than 17 soldiers killed in Kaduna and Niger states and over 40 members of the Civilian Joint Task Force killed in the northwestern Zamfara State.

Nigeria’s military has been struggling to battle Boko Haram and other insurgencies in the northeast, banditry and kidnappings in the northwest, herder attacks in the north-central states and secessionists in the southeast.

Nbotee:
Even the Isreali - Iranian war didn't record this much casualties

greygoblings:
It was only for 12 days and the aim was to take out infrastructure and military heads and not civilians. No basis for comparison.

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu, was said to have disclosed the figures

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/insurgents-bandits-kill-over-2000-nigerians-in-six-months-report/

UzorIyke:
What about Russia Ukraine war? Have they recorded such omen?

greygoblings:
It was only for 12 days and the aim was to take out infrastructure and military heads and not civilians. No basis for comparison.

Nbotee:
They used bombs and missiles , hundreds of it. The basis of comparison is that that was an armed conflict and what we are experiencing isn't up to that scale but yet the govt is treating it as priority issue

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/insurgents-bandits-kill-over-2000-nigerians-in-six-months-report/

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/insurgents-bandits-kill-over-2000-nigerians-in-six-months-report/

NgeneUkwenu:
I stopped reading, after seeing the name and source! Ndi propaganda.