Nigeria: How Not to Tackle Terrorism in Nigeria

The notion that there is never a bad peace or a good war is true. It is a pity for Nigeria to be listed among the sixty-one (61) war ravaged countries and party to a total of five hundred and forty (540) different militias - guerrillas, extremists, separatists and anarchic groups worldwide. The crises ranges between civil war, war against rebel groups, uprising against government, war against secessionists, war against fundamentalists or war against narcotic trafficing groups.

In those days, Nigerians were fun of making jest of foreign war and terrorism news which rented the air mostly from Mogadishu in Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and recently in Libya, Mali, Central Africa Republic, Egypt, Kenya, Tunisia, Sudan and South Sudan, and so on. Outside Africa, history also list Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Colombia, Mexico, Yemen, Bahrain,Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanker, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine,Chechnya, mention a few. Apart from the civil war, Nigeria in 2009 started facing security challenges as a child play from Boko Haram (BH) which until today uncontrollably graduated to devastate the international reputation Nigeria has been enjoying since independence. President Jonathan unfortunately inherited the insurgency from his former boss Late Umoru Yar'Adua who instituted dialogue cum amnesty to resolve youth restiveness and militancy in the treasure-trove ofNiger Delta.

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