In the first six weeks of 2021, lives of no fewer than 1, 525 persons have been wasted across the country Vanguard's investigation, and data obtained from the Nigeria Security Tracker, NST, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations' Africa programme, have shown.
The 1,525-death figure, which is conservative, covers only reported cases arising from the Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, herdsmen crisis, kidnapping, communal and cult clashes, armed robbery, and brutality of security agents among others.
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