Situation report: Abuja–Kaduna highway and rail corridor
Named danger area.
| Level Extreme |
Coordinates 9°54′00″N 7°25′48″E 9.9000, 7.4300 radius ≈ 18 km |
Covers 4 LGAs |
Report date 2026-09-28 |
The country's most notorious kidnapping road, and the line attacked in March 2022 when the train was stopped and passengers taken.
Map: LGAs shaded by twelve-month ACLED intensity (2025-10 to 2026-09); black outline = this named danger area; dashed = state lines; squares = military installations (town level).
Conflict intensity, last twelve months (ACLED)
| Political-violence events | 69 |
| Deaths in those events | 30 |
| Attacks on civilians | 48 |
| Civilians killed | 13 |
| LGAs at extreme | 1 |
| LGAs at high | 1 |
| LGAs at elevated | 1 |
How it developed
Archive record
5 incidents in the Dustline archive fall here, with 368 deaths recorded.
| Date | Place | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-06 | Birnin-G, Kaduna | Bandit groups and Nigerian security forces — Birnin-G, Kaduna (2020-02-06) |
| 2020-02-05 | Birnin-G, Kaduna | Bandit groups and Nigerian security forces — Kuduru Forest, Birnin-G, Kaduna (2020-02-05) |
| 2015-06-08 | Chikun, Kaduna | Bandit groups and Nigerian security forces — Ungwan Keke-B, Chikun, Kaduna (2015-06-08) |
| 2014-07-23 | Kaduna South, Kaduna | Bandit groups — Kowa, Isa Kaita, Kaduna South, Kaduna (2014-07-23) |
| 2014-07-06 | Kaduna South, Kaduna | Bandit groups and Nigerian security forces — Kinkino, Kaduna South, Kaduna (2014-07-06) |
Military installations within 150 km
| 1 Division | Kaduna | 68 km |
| Nigerian Defence Academy | Kaduna | 76 km |
| Air Training Command / NAF Base Kaduna | Kaduna | 89 km |
| Army Headquarters | Abuja | 92 km |
| Defence Headquarters | Abuja | 94 km |
| Naval Headquarters | Abuja | 95 km |
| Air Force Headquarters | Abuja | 97 km |
Advisories and named areas
US travel advisory: Kaduna State — Kidnapping (Level 4, do not travel).
Limits
- ACLED counts recorded events. Rural violence is under-reported everywhere, and more so where journalists cannot go.
- Levels summarise twelve months; a road can change within days. Current advisories and local security briefings outrank this report.
- Approximate extent drawn as a circle around a well-known location. It marks where danger is concentrated, not a line inside which it begins; the areas around it are not implied to be safe.
Sources: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), www.acleddata.com — aggregates via HDX, as of 25 September 2026. Boundaries: OCHA COD-AB Nigeria (CC BY-IGO). Map base: Natural Earth (public domain), naturalearthdata.com; state boundaries OCHA COD-AB Nigeria (CC BY-IGO). Archive: Dustline snapshot of dustlinemap.online, 22 September 2026. Advisory: US Department of State.