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Also in attendance were prominent traditional rulers under the Northern Traditional Leaders Council, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III.

Amid worsening insecurity across Northern Nigeria, governors of the 19 northern states and leading traditional rulers on Monday convened an emergency meeting in Kaduna to deliberate on urgent solutions to the region’s escalating security crisis.

The closed-door session, hosted by Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, brought together members of the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF), led by its chairman, Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State.

Also in attendance were prominent traditional rulers under the Northern Traditional Leaders Council, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III.

Although details of the meeting were not immediately made public, it was learnt that discussions were centered almost entirely on the deteriorating security situation in the region, particularly the surge in banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, and violent clashes between farmers and herders.

These crises have claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands of residents in recent months.

The emergency gathering underscores growing alarm among northern leaders as criminal networks expand operations across rural and urban areas, overwhelming local communities and stretching security agencies thin.

The meeting is expected to produce a coordinated regional strategy and renewed collaboration between political and traditional institutions in addressing insecurity.

As of the time of filing this report, the Forum had not released an official communiqué.

An All Progressives Congress (APC) member, Imran Muhammad, posted photos from the meeting on his X account on Monday.

festacman:
Northern Governors should gather experts from all Northern States to hold a conference and develop an economic plan that will focus in how to empower its young population using agricultural activities, livestock management, food processing, products' distribution and exporting. They should quit looting and sleeping on duty.

President Tinubu must engage knowledgeable people to develop ROADMAP for cattle ranching. There must be a plan on paper. By the way appointing Prof. Jega who is a political scientist as his Special Adviser and Coordinator of the Presidential Livestock Reform Initiative is a big joke.

Fulani political and religious leaders should admit that time has come for them to stop their oligarchy (political control) and Caliphate (religious manipulation) as time has changed a lot. Education, civilisation and technology have rendered their domination agenda against the Hausa as well as the minorities in core North and North Central outdated. They need to pull back before a pushback comes.