Nigeria, April 20 -- The police have refuted recent reports of the emergence of a terror group, Mahmuda, in Kaiama and Baruten local government areas of Kwara State.

The state police public relations officer, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, said police threat assessments, intelligence surveillance, and tactical reconnaissance operations in these areas yielded no evidence of insurgent activity, coordinated terrorist formations, or mass casualty incidents as reported.

Mrs Ejire-Adeyemi described the claim of 15 vigilantes being killed as *entirely false.*

She assured the public that security agents in Kwara State remained "proactive and are strategically deployed under a multi-agency operational framework" involving the police and sister security...