Banditry in the Northwest: A call for political will and urgent action, by Hassan Ahmad Story by Jessica Mbamah  The unrelenting wave of bandit attacks across Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, and Kebbi States has become a humanitarian disaster that threatens the very soul of the Northwest. Every passing day brings another report of innocent villagers being slaughtered, families driven from their ancestral homes, and communities abandoned to fear. These are places where our great-grandfathers were born and buried—lands steeped in history and identity. Today, they are being reduced to wastelands by armed miscreants who...