Nigeria’s instability is largely born of poor governance. Britain, the colonial power, lumped together many groups in one country: Muslims in the north, Christians in the south, numerous and overlapping ethnic groups in different regions.

Gbagura:
zealots equal ipob terrorists. End of discussion.

Newsi:


https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/how-kidnappers-zealots-and-rebels-are-making-nigeria-ungovernable/21805737

Newsi:




IPOB supporters are easy to find in the south-east. They want to “wipe us out” but “we are not mosquitos” to be swatted, shouts Kelvin, a 36-year-old, gesturing angrily at nearby soldiers. “If Nigeria doesn’t want to leave, if they want violence, we will go for violence.” Ferocious crackdowns by the security forces drive young men to join the rebels. In May Usman Baba, now Nigeria’s inspector general of police, told officers going after IPOB that “If anyone accuses you of human-rights violation, the report will come to my table and you know what I will do. So…kill them all.”

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/how-kidnappers-zealots-and-rebels-are-making-nigeria-ungovernable/21805737

Naijiriana:
Nice reportage. However, I find it that the writer has intentionally or ignorantly skipped some aspects and under reported some.

What he calls "Farmers Herders" crises had been there since. However, the herders being emboldened by their brother in power, it took a deadlier turn since Buhari came on sit. I remember as at the time of my NYSC in 2016, a guy from Agatu in Benue State narrated how the machete-weilding Fulani herders upgraded to wielding guns. That was no coincidence.

No mention of how Buhari's Nepotism and Ethno-religous biases has contributed greatly to the problem.

He didn't mention how the Federal Government through the military have been complicit in the whole problem, prompting Retired Army Gen. T.Y Danjuma to sound a warning to Nigerians that "if they're waiting on the military to save them, they will die one by one."

He didn't mention how federal security elements extra judicially executed thousands of armless and peaceful IPOB protesters. Dumping them in shallow mass graves, the evidents are there on the internet. Amnesty International, never stopped harping on this.

How did he come up with some of his numbers?
That the Nigerian civil war claimed just a million lives?
That the Igbos are just "a sixth of the Nigerian population"?
That only 25% of Southerners oppose the imposed sit-at-home order?

It''s very easy to see his bias even as he tries hard but failed to hide it.

Posterity Will never judge his kind fairly.

Kimjongun:
NYSC IS EVIL PLEASE SCRAP IT, OR MAKE IT OPTIONAL

googlepikins:
Buhari is a shameless fool

Sonoyom:

Building a nation is far beyond shouting Amen.
For 61 years we have been hoping and shouting Amen whilst our leaders keep sharing the national cake.

dasparrow:
The article touches on a lot of valid points though I don't agree with some things the article writer wrote. Nonetheless, Nigeria cannot continue in the trajectory it is currently going. Today, I saw a customs official on TVC news channel talking about how he gave bandits in the bush 7 bags of rice. Why are bandits being given 7 bags of rice while Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Igboho are locked up for no other reason but because they called for referendum? Is that fair? Why are people who are causing others hurt and pain being paid money, given bags of rice and offered job positions in the Nigerian army while others who are asking for referendum are tortured in jail or DSS dungeon and the army sent to their home to have them killed?

And as for Britain, the thunder that will strike them is still doing press up in the gym. If they are allowed to conduct referendum to decide if they want to Brexit or not, why can't Africans be allowed to decide if they want to stay together or not? Why don't we have the right for self determination like they the whites do? Former Soviet Union broke into several countries after it disintegrated. So why can't African countries with many incompatible ethnic groups be allowed to decide what is best for them? Answer: Because bloody Britain is benefiting from Nigeria. Nigeria is Britain's cash cow. The white man is just as greedy as the black man in my opinion and won't mind that people continue getting killed as long as he can get his pale fingers on our resources. After all, isn't that what it has always been about?

Britain talks about how corrupt Nigerian leaders are but the same Britain welcomes Nigerian leaders to Britain and helps hide all their loot in British and other western world bank accounts. In my humble opinion, the English man is just as corrupt, greedy and heartless as the African leader he loves to condemn. Point, blank, period!

afube:






There is a lot of sophistry in the article, going through it you would think the British are uninterested and unbiased arbiters to the conflicts in Nigeria but that that will be a mistake, the British are in fact partial to Fulani interests and are very deep in the mess that is Nigeria. God pass them till eternity..Biafra will be free to their consternation!

dasparrow:


Today, I saw a customs official on TVC news channel talking about how he gave bandits in the bush 7 bags of rice. Why are bandits being given 7 bags of rice while Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Igboho are locked up for no other reason but because they called for referendum? Is that fair? Why are people who are causing others hurt and pain being paid money, given bags of rice and offered job positions in the Nigerian army while others who are asking for referendum are tortured in jail or DSS dungeon and the army sent to their home to have them killed?