Tinubu (2023–2026)

Banditry persists at the same scale; Governor Dikko Radda (March 2023–) launches the Katsina Community Watch Corps (8,000 personnel) in mid-2023.Northern Abandonment Cycle
August 2024 — #EndBadGovernance hunger protests; Katsina records protests in Funtua and Daura; police record minimal casualties compared with Kano or Kaduna.
2024–2026 — kidnap-for-ransom in southern Katsina LGAs continues; intermittent JTF "Operation Whirl Stroke" operations.Northern Abandonment Cycle

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.