Vice President Kashim Shettima on Sunday said military offensives alone could not sustainably resolve the security crisis in Nigeria’s Northwest. He said, rather, it would take a mix of kinetic and non-kinetic strategies to restore calm in the troubled region. “Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, there cannot be a military solution to the crisis in the northwest. There has to be a kinetic and non-kinetic solution,” Shettima said in a chat with journalists when he paid condolence visits to the Galadanci and Mangal families in Kano and Katsina, respectively. From Kano, Shettima departed to Katsina to condole renowned businessman Dahiru Mangal over the demise of his first wife, Aisha Dahiru, who died Saturday evening in Abuja after a brief illness.

Source: Punch July 17, 2023 17:44 UTC