Nigeria Heading for the Brink, Mohammed Warns, Urges Restraint

•Meets opinion leaders tomorrow

•Abdulsalami peace committee convenes today

With growing insecurity across the country, secessionist agitations and ethno-religious crisis, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has warned that Nigeria is heading for the brink, urging that there is an urgent need to pull it back.

“Despite huge human and material resources the country is heading for the brinks and there is an urgent need to pull it back from this catastrophe,” he said in a letter inviting leaders of opinion to a town hall meeting scheduled for tomorrow in Kaduna.

Also concerned by the raging strife across the land, the Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar (rtd)-led National Peace Committee (NPC) is also convening a meeting today in Abuja to discuss the way forward.

Nigeria has recently witnessed increasing insecurity, leading to the killing of security agents and innocent citizens by bandits.

The security crisis has made many Nigerians and members of the international community to express concerns about the state of the nation.

Mohammed, in a letter, inviting prominent Nigerians for a town hall meeting in Kaduna tomorrow said the manifestations of the general state of insecurity in the country, especially with secessionist narrative, crass politicisation of ethnic and religious differences need to be addressed urgently.

He said with the situation, the country is heading for the brink.

He said: “As you may observe, Nigeria has failed to manage its diversity. Despite huge human and material resources the country is heading for the brink and there is an urgent need to pull it back from this catastrophe.

“Increasingly, we are seeing this lack of capacity to manage our diversity manifesting in a general state of insecurity as witnessed in the heightened incidences of farmers/herders clashes, Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, ethno-religious clashes and intolerance, cultism, drug addiction and kidnapping.

“Closely tied to all these are the dangerous threat to the unity of the country and its continued existence as one indivisible nation. But the story of Nigeria has not always been this negative. How did we get here and what can we do to change the narrative to present our country in the best of light? This requires teamwork, reflecting all diversities, leveraging on all our collective creativity to pursue with diligence the project of rescuing Nigeria.’’

Mohammed added that the correct starting point towards addressing the problems is building an elite consensus on the security, unity, indissolubility and peaceful existence of Nigeria.

He said such elite consensus had worked in the past and there is a need to find out why it is not working again as well as to proffer solutions because Nigeria is truly at a tipping point.

In the invitation letters sent to many opinion moulders nationwide, the minister said a broad-based and inclusive town hall meeting has been fixed for Kaduna tomorrow to discuss some of the manifestations of the general state of insecurity in the country, especially with secessionist narrative, crass politicisation of ethnic and religious differences.

“The proposed town hall meeting will aim at developing concrete implementable resolutions because a lot of theoretical talks and postulation had taken place with little or no requisite outcome.

“The event will be declared open by President Muhammadu Buhari. Reputable scholar, Prof. Jibril Ibrahim, will be the lead presenter and will set the tone for discussion with Prof. Saka Nuru, Prof. Chudi Uwazurike and Prof Kokunre Eghafonaas as guest discussants,’’ the letter stated.

The meeting is expected to be attended by the leadership of the legislature, governors, ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, service chiefs, Inspector-General of Police, heads of security agencies, religious and traditional leaders and members of the international community amongst others.

Similarly, the Abdulsalami-led peace committee has also scheduled a meeting of prominent leaders for today in Abuja to address what it described as the “escalating spate of insecurity, banditry, kidnapping, regional agitations, the killing of innocent citizens and other forms of violence.’’

It added that the vexed issues have continued to cause deep concern to well-meaning citizens at home and abroad.

NPC said it had been receiving requests from Nigerians, urging it to intervene.

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You guys caused it.

Who is to blame

For the 1st time in historical history lai talk truth

Nigeria has recently witnessed increasing insecurity, leading to the killing of security agents and innocent citizens by bandits.

The security crisis has made many Nigerians and members of the international community to express concerns about the state of the nation.

Is this Lai,or another person? It means they are feeling the heat too

Lying machine trying to be politically right.
Anyways ill keep advocating that for a better Nigeria we need youths with empathy & visionary capacity to take up all leadership roles in the country!
Enough of these past and present clueless old mofos that only knows how to embezzle public funds.

phrancys001:
For the 1st time in historical history lai talk truth

Not truth just projective facts from clear occurencies howbeit it is more edifying to state a challenge(projective fact) and proffer a suitable effective solution !

Deep Quote
Ability to identify and solve a problem is a superpower.


Proactivity Leads To Productivity!!!
@Seniorwriter

face the reality

He should rather channels the blame to his dullard and dementia principal for his lopsided appointment! Making a certain regions look inferior ..

5% statement come to mind

I'm not sure Lai said that it's just another lie they are trying to pin on him

As if to say they don't know the genesis of Nigeria's problem.
Abeg, let's hear.
Town hall meeting ke

Might be too late... Very few people would forget the mayhem unleashed by herdsmen in, benue, kaduna, zamfara, enugu, ebonyi and other states. The biafra agitation is a no joke, oduduwa agitation is there, though i don't know how serious they are. Everyone is grieving. Boko haram menace is there. The buhari's administration, the worst of all damages is still with us. I doubt if the peace commission will be effective. And if anyone thinks we've seen it all, wait till the slumbering giants wakes up!

Make we separate already..

Nigeria has recently witnessed increasing insecurity, leading to the killing of security agents and innocent citizens by bandits.





Not a single word about fulani herdsmen killings

I thought he called them joker's last week, now the same joker's ain't joking no more, i say bring down the zoo

Una never see anything yet, genesis never start o

History and God will never forgive those that enabled this evil

Keep appointing only Fulani and keep supporting them in their violence against others.

I love the kind of English you speak here but it's unfortunate you people don't have the natural capacity to make it happen


if you are practical and sincere like this for long, the idea of biafra wouldn't have resurrected in the successive generation

injustice made us look at our past and its dangerous for us to stop here


we're sorry we don't love Nigeria anymore

we're pledging allegaince to the Rising Sun

I love the kind of English you speak here but it's unfortunate you people haven't the natural capacity to make it happen


if you are practical and sincere like this for long, the idea of biafra wouldn't have resurrected in the successive generation

injustice made us look at our past and its dangerous for us to stop here


we're sorry we don't love Nigeria anymore

we're pledging allegaince to the Rising Sun
a land of hope and future
cradle of our ancestors,our spirits and souls

They will come to talk as usual, they all have solutions to proffer, the political will to implement the solutions is the real problem and the bulk lies with the president and the goons, but obviously they dont care.

Nigeria is technically defeated

Very useless lying old vampire c mouth like kettle shameless thief

Lie Mohammed calls for a town hall meeting and not the president because he obviously doesn't care or the VP because doing so will seem like an usurping of powers (the last time the VP showed how effective he is/can be was the last time power was transferred to him when Buhari was travelling). So you have a perfectly capable VP who has been turned into a mannequin and can't take simple but far reaching actions like this.
Lie Mohammed's town hall meeting is nothing more than a charade, nothing will come out of it, using Kaduna is bad optics already, the government there selects those it'll negotiate release from kidnappers while ignoring the rest. God help us

And behold, while the country is in a brink of collapse...d captain is in another ship sleeping

The ZOO must go down.

The blame goes to the FGN that is using Fulani militiamen to commit genocide across the country.

Why it's difficult is because... This Govt sides with injustice while being good and meritorious make one look like a fool.

Clowns. They know what they should do stop all these mess but they won't. They should appoint southerners in key positions in the country rather than making one tripe or region feels superior above others. Because as for now fulani heads 80 percent of key positions in the country. Those who make peaceful change impossible, makes violence change inevitable. Oh wait! He even appoint another fulani to head the town hall meeting

You have an organic, grass root crisis and this clown is talking about “elite consensus”.

Like seriously! These guys think that a collection of rent seekers from across this benighted neocolonial prison camp can resolve, let alone prevent this train wreck?

They are all speaking out because ESN is defending the East against terrorism, ever since ONLY the terrorists are operating how many of them show any worries

Finally, every tribe/ethnic group trapped in this contraption are about to be free courtesy of the UGM

Are you just knowing! Werey