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  • Getting it right

    Getting it right

    Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun ordered the IGP Monitoring Unit and Commissioners of Police X-Squads to ensure strict monitoring and compliance with President Bola Tinubu’s order to withdraw officers protecting Very Important Persons (VIPs) to the detriment of general security.

     They are to arrest any officer found escorting VIPs. Egbetokun said over 11, 566 officers will return to “frontline duties” as a result of the presidential directive, adding that “policing capacity will improve.”

    There is no question that the enforcement of Tinubu’s directive is crucial. The challenge of implementation demands political will and professional resolve.  

    Notably, a retired deputy inspector general of police, Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim, argued that the police force needs urgent reforms for the successful implementation of the President’s directive. He stated that some IGPs had issued the same order in the past but lacked the structural support to enforce it.

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    Ibrahim further noted that VIP protection “has become an economy” in the force, describing it as a “cash cow” that generates revenue streams for officers, making the structure extremely resistant to reform. He listed the beneficiaries of such protection, including politicians, businessmen, entertainers, expatriates, religious figures, malls, banks and private individuals “seeking status.”

     His deep insider knowledge of police operations makes his observations and recommendations noteworthy and useful. Apart from the necessary political will, he suggested steps for the success of the policy. He advised the authorities to: Publish a list of withdrawn officers; Deploy them to stations, patrols and intelligence units; Establish an NSCDC-based VIP Protection Service; Ban direct escort requests to the IGP or Commissioners of Police; Digitise all VIP security requests.

    Other suggestions are: Introduce penalties for illegal escorts; Reward officers returning to active policing; Conduct surprise audits of formations; Launch a national policing-reform communication campaign; Use community policing to fill temporary gaps.

    These call for a thoroughgoing institutional overhaul: dismantling the old system; building the new system; and sustaining the change.

    It is important to ensure the implementation of the presidential order. But, more importantly, it is necessary to envision and emplace a reformed police force.

    It remains to be seen whether the President’s intervention will make a difference this time around. The authorities must be open to unlearning the old, ineffective ways, and learning new approaches to the country’s security crisis.

  • Tall order

    Tall order

    There is a local saying to the effect that when you task an effigy with an assignment, you simply have tasked yourself. This is inevitably so because of the constraint inherent in the effigy: it is stiff-moulded by nature and can’t possibly run errands even if it were to have a mind and a desire to oblige. Such is the circumstance of the Nigerian public that the Presidency recently tasked with monitoring and reporting non-compliance with a presidential order recalling policemen attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs) on special protection duties and reassigning them to core policing tasks in service of the general populace.

    Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Daniel Bwala, called on members of the public to actively help monitor compliance with President Bola Tinubu’s directive to withdraw police escorts attached to VIPs. Speaking in an interview on TVC on Sunday, where he highlighted the administration’s commitment to enforcing the order, he urged citizens to document and report violations. “If you identify a celebrity, a private sector person, or any individual who has police against the executive order of the President, as much as you can, capture the evidence – whether a photograph or video,” Bwala said.

    He made clear, though, that the recall does not apply to all government officials. “The order of the President to withdraw police from VIPs is not all-encompassing. There are critical people in government who will still have one form of security or another,” Bwala explained. According to him, personnel of other security agencies like the Department of State Services (SSS) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) would provide protection where necessary. “It could be DSS, Civil Defence, and not the police who will be there to help you. But the police have no business being with you,” he said.

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    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had recently ordered the recall of police escorts on special protection services for VIPs across the country and their redeployment to core policing duties amidst worsening spate of insecurity. The order in itself isn’t new, as it had been issued repeatedly by past Inspectors-General of Police but with little or nil level of compliance. What is new this time is that the order is from Mr. President as part of a state of emergency he declared on insecurity.

    But there is strong suspicion that police personnel prefer to be on special protection duties with VIPs, which is far more rewarding in material returns and less hazardous than tackling wild-ranging bandits and other criminals who harass the general populace. For that reason, they hold back on compliance with the recall order, and if abetted by superiors could utterly spurn the order.

    One gap in Bwala’s call for public collaboration in enforcing the order is that he did not clarify where to report non-compliance and to whom. If there is a systemic conspiracy to short-shrift on the presidential directive, the hapless citizen could be reporting a default to the defaulter!

  • Kanu and prison insecurity

    Kanu and prison insecurity

    From all indications, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) must take security at the Sokoto Custodial Centre more seriously due to the presence of Nnamdi Kanu, the jailed leader of the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).  He was moved there following his life sentence for terrorism-related crimes.

    Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who jailed Kanu for life, was quoted as saying the Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja, may be unsafe for him, given the number of killings linked to his directives.

    However, moving him to the Sokoto Custodial Centre is also concerning due to the identified security challenges facing the country’s custodial facilities.  

    Nigeria’s custodial centres are facing “escalating security challenges,” according to a report by the European Union (EU) Agency for Asylum, published in November. The country itself is in the middle of an unrelenting security crisis. There may well be a connection between the two. 

    The report noted that Nigeria has experienced a decade-long “pattern of prison jailbreaks, resulting in thousands of inmates escaping correctional facilities nationwide.” It said the problem was mainly due to systemic weaknesses, including overcrowding, structural deficiencies, and chronic underfunding.

    For instance, the report cited a March 2025 incident “when 12 inmates escaped from the Koton Karfe Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kogi State. Only five were recaptured.”

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    Strikingly, at the time, their escape was said to have happened after they succeeded in opening the padlocks in a section of the facility.  They were said to have left the prison through a collapsed window. Witnesses were reported saying the escapees had tied up two prison officers. Tragically, another officer, Senior Correctional Assistant Shuaibu King David, was killed. The Controller-General of NCoS, Sylvester Ndidi Nwakuche, ordered a comprehensive investigation into the incident and a security audit across correctional facilities nationwide. 

    The EU report noted that “This marked the fourth jailbreak at this facility in 13 years, where nearly 700 inmates have fled, including about 100 freed during a 2012 Boko Haram attack.”

    The recurring breakouts were attributed to “security gaps, together with possible insider complicity, which exacerbate the prisons’ vulnerabilities, especially amid attacks by armed groups like Boko Haram.”

    In February, escapees from Nigeria’s correctional centres in 2021 and 2022, who had not been recaptured, were reported to be about 4,000. This is alarming. Also disturbing is that this could be a conservative estimate.

    The estimated 4,000 escapees, from at least eight jailbreaks across the country in 2021 and 2022, who were said to be at large, pose a serious danger to society as many of them may well be dangerous criminals.  The series of jailbreaks in the two years further exposed poor security at the country’s correctional centres.

    The authorities must ensure that Kanu is not only safe in his new space but also securely imprisoned.

  • Honorary doctorate mills

    Honorary doctorate mills

    Recently, government moved against vanity fair entailed in awarding and parading academic titles that aren’t academically earned. It placed a ban on award of honorary doctorate to serving public officials in efforts to stem rampant misuse. It also forbade recipients from using the title ‘Dr.’ in their names, but rather by explicit designation that shows the award to be honorary and not a product of scholarly work.

    The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abdullahi Ribadu, said the agency was being forced to act following disturbing revelations from an inquiry into how honorary degrees were conferred and paraded by recipients. “These degrees are intended to recognise exceptional service or achievements. Unfortunately, they have increasingly become tools of misuse,” he added in Abuja while receiving report from a committee raised to investigate award and public misuse of honorary doctorates in Nigeria.

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    Ribadu warned that misuse of honorary titles erodes the credibility of Nigerian universities and undermines public confidence in legitimate academic qualifications, adding that the situation was worsened by multiplicity of unaccredited and illegal institutions – local and foreign – operating purely as honorary degree mills. According to him, the report identified 32 such institutions currently operating in the country namely 10 unaccredited foreign universities, four unlicensed local universities, 15 professional bodies without degree-awarding powers and three non-degree-awarding organisations.

    Some of these entities, the NUC boss disclosed, even confer fake professorships. “Let us be clear: awarding honorary degrees is a legal responsibility vested solely in approved Nigerian universities. The law empowers the NUC to regulate both the award and use of honorary doctorate degrees,” he said, stressing that only accredited public or private universities are authorised to award honorary doctorates. “Recipients of the awards are at liberty to use nomenclature such as Doctor of Literature, but must refrain from using the title ‘Dr.’, which is the designation of PhD holders and medical personnel. Additionally, they are not permitted to use honorary doctorates to practice as scholars or professionals, supervise research or oversee administrative units,” he also said.

    Ribadu lamented that many universities ignore the 2012 Keffi Declaration that prohibits awarding honorary doctorates to serving public officers. “We have what is called the Keffi Declaration from 2012. The Keffi Declaration is against the award of honorary doctorates to serving officers, whether political or not. But a lot of our universities do not follow it,” he noted.

    NUC’s clampdown takes after a similar move earlier on this year by Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), which forbade holders of honorary doctorate and professorial titles from wearing the labels publicly henceforth in that country. GTEC threatened legal action against violators of what it called a final warning. Only that vanity is a big industry with powerful players. The test of NUC’s resolve will be seen in how it is able to keep these players in line.

  • PDP and self-skewed fortune

    PDP and self-skewed fortune

    The PDP debacle, and Chief Bode George’s role in it, are so reminiscent of a Yoruba saying about elders, markets, babies and skewed necks: “Agba ki nwa l’oja, k’ori omo tuntun wo”!

    In other words, elders are elders precisely because they boast a repository of wisdom to take charge and fix things, before they go awry.

    The PDP convention in Ibadan went awry on many fronts: two court verdicts that it be stalled; another court injunction that it should go ahead, pending the determination of the case. 

    In this melee, the “youths” rushed themselves into avoidable errors. But the “elders” too merrily joined them, all pushed by emotions and anger, hardly by scant reason or wisdom. Now, the rushed show of Adamasingba, Ibadan, has morphed into the Wadata House of Commotion, Abuja. Hardly a surprise!

    In truth, the PDP mess is very sticky — and annoying. Many factions, claiming the soul of the party, just can’t help outdoing one another, even opting for the Samson complex — so pissed that crashing the entire structure on own heads, and perishing with it, has become an alluring option.

    But perhaps the most telling part of the confusion was the expulsion of Nyesom Wike and co, the leading lights of the faction contesting the space with the faction of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who apparently bank-rolled the Ibadan gathering.

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    Now, this was when it got very crunchy. Only the Makinde faction has the full information on the decision to expel. The Ibadan bloc must have been well and truly pissed at the alleged “anti-party” antics of Wike and co. But if you must go for broke, must an elder be the face of it?

    That’s where Chief George, a retired Navy commodore, earned due flak. Even if you must expel, why couldn’t you have let the new national executive settle down, embed themselves in the national secretariat, before acting? The hot emotion of a rushed expulsion — must it manifest in one of the oldest figures there?

    For the “youth”, Governor Makinde: what’s the point in blowing millions to stage a controversial convention, without thinking of a positive aftermath? For starters, INEC didn’t monitor the process, as required by law, no thanks to two court verdicts. So, it’s as good as no convention at all.

    Then, unruly behaviours, by both PDP factions, have led to a seal-off of Wadata Plaza, Abuja, the PDP national headquarters. Did Makinde blow such money only to put in place a PDP national executive-in-exile? What was the strategy? What did the Makinde faction expect would happen?

    Only a military complex, which thrives on command-and-control, could have explained old man George’s involvement in the fiasco — but only on the surface. The real driver would appear karma. 

    In their PDP power heyday, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and George spared nothing to dismantle the Alliance for Democracy (AD). The same karma would appear to have used George to announce the “expulsion”, now smashing the PDP, with Obasanjo very much alive! What goes around comes around! 

    No tears for the PDP. It’s ugly past is just catching up with it!

  • Where is your proof, Malam

    Where is your proof, Malam

    Former Kaduna State governor Nasir El Rufai thought he had put his successor under fire by alleging that Governor Uba Sani is paying ransom to bandits to keep the peace. The governor fired back through his aide, and asked the fellow who barked around as chief executive to prove his allegations.

    He made the allegation recently on Channels Television where he often goes to weep in public. The commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Sule Shu’aibu was unsparing as he described the former governor’s contention as “reckless, baseless and deliberately misleading.”

    Taking another swipe at El-Rufai, he said the APC defector was “weaponising a sensitive security issue for political grandstanding.”

    Shu’aibu noted as Governor Sani had done several times, that the present chief executive has never authorised, negotiated, or paid any money to the hoodlums. “Not one naira. Not one kobo,” the commissioner said.

    Now, the shoe is on the other foot. Let him who charges, prove. He was even given a deadline: one week. This is an unfamiliar territory for El Rufai who has a knack for raising the stakes.

    But he was not properly interrogated when he made that claim. A reporter ought to make a man answer for his own sins when he commits it in public. Was it not this same El Rufai who boasted that he was paying ransom, and that there was nothing wrong with it? So, why was he angry if, for the sake of argument, the present governor is paying ransom?

    We must note that he paid ransom for nothing because he left the state in a state of violence like neighbouring Katsina State today. He did not understand his own contradiction when he spoke. Places like Birnin Gwari were no-go areas for regular folks. There were no markets or businesses there throughout his tenure as governor. The bandits were in charge of their areas just as he was in charge of the state house in Kaduna.

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    The governor has said he is not just using carrots but also sticks. Carrots in terms of providing platforms for engaging the idle like the 2.5 million citizens who now have bank accounts. To be idle is to do havoc.

    In Southern Kaduna, the nation heard news as though a routine about kidnappings, house and village burnings, and killings. He declared states of emergency without security and the emergencies were invitation to fatal treats.

    If he is alleging with evidence, let the world see it. Any man who wants to play hardball must have hard evidence. If he does not provide evidence, he would be seen as mere rabble rouser and bellyaching over the successes of his successor. It would be regarded then, not just as bellyaching, but also an act of envy. It is an open advertisement of his failure in eight years.

    Not long ago, he was roundly defeated in local elections in which the governor said elections are not won on social media posts. He and his son are adept at superficial posts and meretricious claims, just as the one he is being challenged to provide proof.

    Even the national security adviser Nuhu Ribadu has said no bandit was paid. If El Rufai paid ransom and it did not work, why would he expect that ransoms would be responsible for peace in Kaduna? We have seen that ransoms only bring respites and not enduring peace. Ransoms don’t pay forward. The people return for more ransoms. And to do that, they foment violence. We have not seen such rhythm of violence and peace in the state. Over to you, Malam. Where is your proof? Time is ticking.

  • Failed doomsday displaced Persons

    Failed doomsday displaced Persons

    In crisis situations, there are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). These are hapless victims of whatever crisis befell their communities and forced them to leave; they are usually the responsibility of government to care for till peace returns to their troubled homesteads and they get resettled back. Not so with Failed Doomsday Displaced Persons (FDDPs). These are people who chose to believe a lie and self-dislocated their own lives – not because of external aggression but from inner delusion. Anyone in this category cannot hope for government to rehabilitate them. They are on their own.

    It is one week now since the failed prediction of a date for the biblical ‘rapture,’ and those taken in are ruing their self-dispossession in gullible anticipation of an escape from the earth. Rapture is an end-time event by which believers in the Christian faith expect to be supernaturally translocated from the terrestrial plane ahead of a coming period of intense suffering, known as the Tribulation, by those left behind. This event in biblical narrative will mark the second coming of Jesus Christ.

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    South African preacher, Pastor Joshua Mhlakela, recently gained worldwide attention after he claimed Jesus appeared to him in a vision and said he would return during the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh Hashanah, which held between 22nd and 24th September. “The rapture is upon us, whether you are ready or not, the rapture will happen in 14 days from now,” Mhlakela had told a YouTube channel, adding: “I’m a billion percent sure that we are going to see the Lord, the rapture is going to happen. I don’t know how to assure you, but I give you a billion percent that it is going to happen. The date of the 23rd, which is going to be the rapture of the church, is irrefutable and final.”

    On the day predicted by Mhlakela, videos showed hundreds of people gathered in woods, waiting to be taken up. The preacher himself went live online, joined by some followers, declaring with confidence that the rapture was imminent. After several hours passed without anything happening, Mhlakela said, “I wonder how God works this out. What I know is that it will happen within these two days, but I cannot tell how He arranges the minutes and the seconds, because at any moment something could happen.” He urged his followers to be patient and hopeful.

    Those who believed Mhlakela had taken steps to sign out from planet earth. Social media platforms were flooded with videos from devastated persons who were so convinced doomsday was coming they resigned their jobs and gave away prized possessions. Tilahun Desalegn, an Australian, shared a clip of his car being towed away, saying: “I won’t need her beyond September, because I’m going home.” Kingsalem Igwe, a self-identified Nigerian prophet, said in a video shared on TikTok: “I’m here with all humility to apologise to everyone. I only believed a man who claimed Jesus told him.” Others were seen sobbing over the failed prediction, lamenting that they now had to go back to work. Well, they’re in good time to wake up to the smell of coffee!

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    September 30, 2025

  • Misassigned protectors

    Misassigned protectors

    Thanks to decisive intervention by President Bola Tinubu, an estimated 100,000 police officers assigned to Very Important Persons (VIPs) are expected to be reassigned for public protection in response to the country’s security crisis.

    The president ordered the withdrawal of such police officers at a security meeting in Abuja, attended by Service Chiefs and the Director-General of the Department of State Services. The President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement, said: “Henceforth, police authorities will deploy them to concentrate on their core police duties. In view of the current security challenges facing the country, President Tinubu is desirous of boosting police presence in all communities.’’

    VIPs requiring protection will now be assigned armed operatives from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps instead of the police, Onanuga added. 

    He also stated that Tinubu has approved the recruitment of 30,000 additional police personnel and that the Federal Government is working with states to upgrade police training facilities nationwide.

    It is widely known that Nigeria is seriously underpoliced, which is a critical factor undermining security across the country. The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has an estimated strength of 371,800 officers, serving a population put at 236.7 million people in 2024.

    According to a November 2025 report published by the European Union Agency for Asylum, “more than 100,000 police officers were assigned to the protection of politicians and VIPs, rather than to tasks serving the general population,” thus compounding insecurity.

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    The report said: “This shortage in manpower, as well as corruption and insufficient resources, has resulted in delayed responses to crimes and numerous communities being left without protection.”

    The continued deployment of a disproportionate number of police officers to politicians and VIPs across the country has long been an issue of public concern.

    Indeed, at different times in the past, the police leadership had issued directives aimed at redressing the situation. For instance, in June 2023, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, ordered the withdrawal of mobile police officers attached to VIPs. He issued a similar directive in April 2025. He reasoned that they should be reserved strictly for strategic national operations.

    The latest report by the European Union Agency for Asylum indicates that such directives were ineffective, as it shows that a significant portion of police manpower continued to be used for VIP protection.

    President Tinubu’s order must not only be carried out but also be seen to be done.

  • Maga slip on intelligence

    Maga slip on intelligence

    It is horrible that terrorists chose a soft spot like Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, to strike last week. And all efforts by government are rightly focused on getting kidnapped girls back from their abductors unharmed. But there’ve been questions about the handling of intelligence that need be addressed, if only to plug lapses in security operations against future occurrence.

    Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris, who is the man on the man on the spot, raised the query. He demanded immediate probe into sudden withdrawal of military personnel from the affected school shortly before armed men stormed in to kidnap several students. Those security operatives had been posted at the school on the strength of Intel alert obtained ahead of the incident.

    Speaking on Friday in Birnin-Kebbi, the governor described the incident as particularly unfortunate because the state government had received intelligence on a planned attack and immediately took remedial steps. “As a responsive government, when we received intelligence on a possible attack, we summoned a security meeting. The security agencies assured us that all was well and that personnel would be mobilised to the school,” he said, adding: “The military was deployed, but they later withdrew by 3a.m. and by 3:45a.m. the incident happened.”

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    Governor Idris spoke while receiving Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Joe Ajaero, who paid him a sympathy visit over the incident. But he made the same case during a meeting with the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, who arrived in Kebbi on the orders of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to coordinate rescue efforts. According to him, the state wants full investigation into circumstances surrounding the security personnel’s withdrawal. “Who authorised the military to withdraw? How did security personnel pull out at such a critical hour? That is our concern. We have asked the military to investigate and identify who gave that order,” he said.

    The governor made clear that both the state and federal governments were working tirelessly to ensure safe return of the abducted girls. “Our duty as leaders is to ensure that our daughters return home safely, and we are doing everything possible to achieve that,” he said. “We thank President Bola Tinubu for directing Vice-President Kashim Shettima to visit us, and for ensuring that the Minister of State for Defence, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, has relocated to Kebbi,” he added.

    There is a local saying about the uncanny coincidence of a witch making a threat yesterday and a child dying today. The natural inference, according to that saying, is that the witch’s threat is linked to the child’s death. The reported withdrawal by troops shortly before the bandits struck signposts grievous operational lapse or, worse, internal compromise that needs to be unmasked.

  • Trump’s crusade, local terror

    Trump’s crusade, local terror

    As they say in a popular Nigerian street slang, it’s a classical “wuruwuru” to the answer!

    US President Donald Trump, bullying, scornful, condescending and unthinking as ever, declared Nigeria a country of particular concern (CPC), over a so-called “Christian genocide” — because he could, not because that blather made any logical sense.

    Indeed, and this was crystal clear: the intel, that powered the rushed decision, came from duds: lies trumpeted by IPOB and its overseas secessionist lobbies, many of them paid to help spread dangerous lies.  Those claims were fated to unravel, and blow up in the faces of the liars, with Trump himself set to have rotten diplomatic eggs, splattered on his face.

    The more his hench(wo)men doubled down on their insane lies on X, the clearer it was they were holding on to hot air.  The more they howled, the more hollow they sounded, against parallel violence and terror trackers, from credible global sources: no genocide in Nigeria, either of Christians or of Muslims.  Only blind terror, of which adherents of both faiths, and everyone else, were victims.

    Noisy Americans, in their inglorious over-simplification of grave matters, wouldn’t just clamber down, though.  They maintain their din but are under pressure to provide realtime “facts”.  So, open sesame!  Things began to happen!

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    All of a sudden, some gunmen attacked a church, during a praise-and-worship session, in Eruku, Kwara State — what had not happened in a long while.  Of course, the crazed lobby on X promptly filed it as latest proof of “Christian genocide”.

    The mask would fall off, though.  Following the terror attack on the Kebbi school girls, US Congressman Riley Moore, spewed more wicked lies, on that terror attack: “While we don’t have all the details on this horrific attack,” he blithely posted on X, “we know that the attack occurred in a Christian enclave in Northern Nigeria”.  It turned out the 24 kidnapped girls are predominantly Muslim!  Riley riles wth another wilful lie! On what you don’t know, fat lies can fill the gap, right?  Geez!

    Like any hurried intervention from the cosmetic America of Donald Trump, you now have to explain the religious colouration of terror victims!  Imagine if the heroic but ill-fated Brig. Gen. Baba Uba (Allah bless his soul!) had been a Christian? 

    His supreme sacrifice for his country, as painful as that is for his immediate family and the rest of us, could have become hearty statistics for these evil lobbies!  But their evil, supposedly on the side of Nigerian Christians, will sooner than later, catch up with them.

    The security agencies know what to do on terror.  They are doing it.  We appreciate them and pray for them.  They’ll yet succeed to weed out terrorists from our land.  It’s only a question of time.

    For now, however, it’s clear that Trump’s “crusade” only helps to boost local terror, and worsen the killings, as Senator George Akume, the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) has correctly held. 

    It needs no special talent to figure that these foreign meddlers, aside having their own agenda, will only distract us, along faith lines, and make insecurity worse.  Patriotic and reasonable Nigerians must not let them.