According to the Global Terrorism Report, the Sahel region has emerged as the “global epicentre of terrorism,” accounting for almost half of all terrorism-related fatalities for the third consecutive year in 2025.
The report, released on Thursday, showed that Nigeria climbed to fourth position on the index, recording 750 deaths in 2025—a 46 per cent increase compared to the previous year.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, said the report reflects worsening insecurity across the country and accused the government of failing in its primary responsibility to protect lives and property.
The PDP urged President Bola Tinubu to use his political acumen to decisively address the protection of lives and property across the country.
The statement read in part, “The just-released Global Terrorism Index 2026 by the Institute for Economics and Peace indicates that our country, under the leadership of the APC-led government, has infamously earned a fourth position in the world on the impact of terrorism survey.
“Nigeria and four other countries accounted for almost seventy per cent of deaths from terrorism. Nigeria also had one of the two largest increases in deaths from terrorism. While this report is not surprising to Nigerians, it is most painful that those who promised and were elected and appointed to secure our country are winning, dining, and dancing in a faraway land, whilst terrorists are killing and kidnapping citizens rampantly.”
“This global report aligns with the daily lived reality of Nigerians, who are now more insecure than they have ever been in this Fourth Republic. In fact, under President Tinubu’s watch, insecurity has not just become very lucrative; it has attained a trillion-naira economy status.”
“We call on the President and the entire security hierarchy to stop performing reactive responses that have defined post-attack communications and rather adopt a whole-of-society approach towards solving insecurity.
“Furthermore, they should evolve programmes and policies capable of delivering negative peace (cessation of attacks and incidents) immediately and providing the basis for positive peace (voluntary and unforced harmonious co-existence).
“It needs reminding that the primary duty of every government is the protection of lives and property—a task that this administration has consistently and glaringly failed.”
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