Kaduna terrorist attacks limit access to 115m northern consumers

Residents of Kaduna, Nigeria’s North-Western region are having a rough time as terrorists constantly attack communities and transit routes in the state. In the last month, the state has experienced a barrage of kidnappings, bomb blasts and high-level insecurity in its community and along its different transport routes.

In a note on Wednesday by Towntalk Solutions, a data intelligence company, the train attacks on March 28 and 29 follow a recent trend of attacks on travel routes and severely increase the risk profile of alternative modes of transport, especially in northern Nigeria.

Road travel into Kaduna is already risky. The state ranked third in terms of road accident fatalities in 2020, with 1,426 persons killed, according the National Bureau of Statistics.

Throughout its colonial and early post-colonial history, Kaduna served as the political and administrative centre of the north and as a result, it quickly became an important hub of commerce, media, industry and trade, as well as a major academic centre with many tertiary institutions, earning the state its label, the Centre of Learning.