As I’m writing this, six people were confirmed dead, 4 injured and others were abducted after an attack which lasted for almost 3 hours by armed bandits in Kagara, headquarters of Rafi local government area of Niger state.

The attack is one of the series of deadly terrorists’ attacks in recent times in some parts of Niger state. Insecurity has been and still one of the crippling forces to Nigeria’s development. From armed banditry to kidnappings, the northern Nigeria specifically has been ranked as one of the most dangerous places to live.

When President Muhammad Buhari came in 2015, his promises on insecurity, economy and the fight against corruption became an enormous emotional appeal to his followers. President Buhari and his political party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) convincingly convinced the electorates that the previous administration were nothing but looters of the treasury. The campaign propaganda was “superb”.

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Five years down the lane, things have seemingly fallen apart in President Buhari’s ‘messianic’ administration. Starting from security, after the ‘technically defeated” phrase by the Army, the Boko Haram terror group who are the chief threat to Nigeria’ s security have been terrorizing the North eastern states especially Borno. In fact, Governor Babagana Zulum’s convoy was attacked by the terror group some weeks back along Baga road where he went to distribute relief materials to IDPs.

It is has become a daily occurrence every day in the front pages of newspapers to find bold stories of either kidnappings, banditry or any terrorists attacks most especially in the north. After heated agitations and pressures from civil society groups the President is yet to consider changing the security chiefs. Warnings upon last warnings have been issued to the security chiefs countlessly by the president but yet things are still falling apart. If things aren’t working right from their strategies and tactics why can’t the president deploy new officers to come up with their own tactics? We can’t be doing same thing over and over again expecting different results.

President Buhari had once accused Jonathan of incompetency because of the way he handled the issue of Boko Haram but now the ball is in his court and he seem confused on how to play it.

Similarly, the President has yesterday blamed corrupt middlemen for the hike in prices of food stuffs. This was contained in a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu that of “all these problems, the most worrisome are the activities of “corrupt” middlemen (with many of them discovered to be foreigners) and other food traders who serve as the link between farmers and consumers found to be systematically creating an artificial scarcity so that they can sell at higher prices.”

Undoubtedly, there are “corrupt” middlemen but aren’t they humans that cannot be seen or arrested for such dubious acts? For how long can we continue blaming marketers for the hike in prices of commodity?

In a similar vein, the President has approved the release of food items from the strategic reserves, including 30,000 tons of maize to animal feeds producers to ease the high cost of poultry production.

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PMB doesn’t even care about what befalls Nigerians. Sadly, in as much as I hate to admit it, Abba Kyari’s presence was bringing some sort of coordination to this government because PMB trusted him and hence entrusted him with some delicate responsibilities and even if it wasn’t the coordinations we wanted but at least someone was in charge & giving directives for his personal gains which brought about some orderliness within the Villa and which was better than the heavier mess Nigeria now found itself ... a purposeless, hopeless, insensitive and corruption-stricken Nigeria.

What a Country?

I’m done weeping for this country

As it was then, so it is now.

Buhari must blame everyone but himself.

Please blame all Nigerian problem on me instead for voting in a man who blame everyone but himself.

As if we have all forgetting we voted Jonathan out for not being able to fight these socalled invisible forces, which goes to show we have not found our messiah yet

Because he's a cow

Cowhari

The northerners are not ready to stop the unnecessary killings in their region as;

- Some of their elites are benefiting from it

- Most do service chiefs never pray for it to end as that would stop their extra source of income.

- Northern leaders/Elites can deny of knowing those who are making the region insecure...