One major challenge Nigerians are currently facing besides extreme poverty and growing unemployment that the country is notorious for, is the growing insecurity, which has rendered the nation grossly unsafe, with thousands killed and property worth billions of Naira destroyed. Daily, there is panic in the land and the country is tilting towards the predicted disintegration.

Nigerian security problems seem to be in phases: in those days, it used to be a series of armed robberies. Then, it advanced to kidnapping-an off-shoot of the Niger Delta militancy and today, to what used to be an alien to the country, bombings and suicide bombings, which the country recorded its first case on the 16th,June 2011,when the Police headquarters was attacked by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

Thereafter, bombings have continued to be a recurring decimal, recurring unabatedly, therefore, throwing the whole nation, nay the world into a pandemonium. Today, in Nigeria, the fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom for all Nigerian and world citizens, who often catch cold whenever Boko Haram sneezes. From Europe to Asia, Australia to the rest of Africa, the Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, is always in the news, for wrong reasons: Boko Haram insurgency.

Boko Haram has become a nuisance, a menace and an endemic and pandemic scourge to the country .It is holding the entire Nigeria, especially the northeast zone hostage. It was formed in 2002 in Maiduguri, Borno State; it has since 2009 exposed the ineptitude of the nation’s security agencies and the insensitivity of the government, most of whom are masterminds and sponsors of the nation’s most dreaded Islamic sect, a sect many believe has a link with the Al-Qaeda of the North-Africa.
Confirming Boko Haram external affiliations, the former National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoeye Azazi (retd) said recently, while fielding questions from foreign news agency in Abuja: ‘’There is now wealth of evidence that Boko Haram has linked up with global jihadists like Al-Qaeda’s North African wing, including meetings between the sect members and evidence show some are trained outside Nigeria and their increasingly sophisticated bomb making technologies’’.

While buttressing this point recently during an interview with a London newspaper, the arrested Boko Haram spokesman, Abu Qaqa confirmed that the group’s leaders met with the Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia last August where they cemented the group’s financial and logistic base. His words: ‘’Al-Qaeda are our brothers. During the lesser hajj, our leaders travelled to Saudi Arabia and met Al-Qaeda there. We enjoy financial and technical support from them. Anything we want from them we ask them’’.

Bombings, the latest entrants into Nigeria’s security problems, right from the October 1, 2010 bombing at the Eagle Square, bombings have become celebratory fireworks that can be likened to the ones seen at carnivals. And the country has lost count of its numerous explosions as well as its uncountable hapless victims.

The solution; the best antidote for curbing if not eradicating it totally. On this, Nigeria seems confused .Nigerians are equally divided along several schools of thoughts on how best to stop this fatal Boko Haram insurgency. The president is also clueless on the best method to adopt. Everybody seems confused and clueless like the president. While many see dialogue, peaceful and bloodless resolution to these attacks, thousands are advocates of violence, military option and bloody resolution.

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http://ellist.com/ng/forum/430/the-persisitent-boko-haram-menace-the-best-way-out-1