The root of Insecurity in Nigeria is bad governance. For those of you thinking that the military or service chiefs are not doing their job well and that the president should restructure the security sector, I think you should look into the matter critically again.

First, there's much pressure on the security sector because of the failure in good governance. Secondly, Nigeria is not the only country facing security challenges due to economic crises. Even the US and other powerful nations military are facing the same pressure on their military either internally or externally due to failure in global politics.

The thing is, our own problems were already there but the international economic problem which skyrocketed after COVID-19 and war between Russia and Ukraine, worsened our own problems, such that there are delays in international supplies due to longer route taken to avoid conflict, etc.

Now, here in Nigeria, instead of addressing key issues troubling our economy, we divert our attention to an irrelevant sector and put pressure on it. During Buhari's tenure, the CBN has to change many policies to address the failed governance.

Now again, instead of looking for ways to address the issues troubling the economy we're now concentrating on the security sector and even calling them a failed system, it would have been unnecessary if things were going fine.

Electricity alone can create at least ten million jobs every month but does Nigeria have steady power supply such that someone can conveniently have faith in it and rely on it? No! Our manufacturing industry can't function without electricity. Even hospitals, technical schools, security, media, etc. can't function properly without electricity in this modern era. In fact, electricity stability should have been the priority of any serious government followed by education.

Proper Education alone can create 6 million jobs per month. But do we even invest in our education? No. Instead our leaders use public fund to send their children to school abroad. You can't expect to run a smooth country on higher illiterate brains than the illiterate ones. Well educated minds won't indulge in crime, instead, they would strive for excellence and Job creation in the society but you can't even create a good job if the power sector is not working well. Some people can't start some business just because they can't afford AC generators, etc. going back to education, most terrorist individuals or even general criminals in our society lacked education. What happens in our universities is that most people went there for certification rather than the knowledge, that's why sorting is higher down there. Now tuition fees are gradually becoming unaffordable, such that some parents are now pushing their younger ones to the farm because they're now fighting for survival. To make matters worse, the little educated ones who would have developed the country are leaving the country in mass because of the nature of the unfriendly environment, now the number of the illiterate ones may be too massive to handle themselves. Could be a bomb when it start dawning on them (when they see death in their face and nature is forcing them to survive, because suffering is naturally painful). Let's forge ahead.

Standard health facilities can generate billions of dollars per month because even foreigners (including foreign presidents) would be admitted here in our Nigerian hospital if things were working. But who cares about this sector? Also, locally made medicinal drugs can boost our health system. But it all boils down to manufacturing because you still need electricity to drive some of the machines that can produce these things efficiently in international standards.

So, in summary, there will be more pressure on the security sector such that the security sector can't handle the problem because it will be overwhelming for them, and sadly it's heading towards there.

My advice to our leaders is that we're all Nigerians! This is your home and if you care about the peace of your children and the next generation, this is the time to build and not to steal, because it may get to the time that you may be on exile or live in fear in your very own indigenous home. But if you make things right, you'll be very proud of yourself in the coming days and your name will live on even up to the next 1000 generations. Let's end tribalism. Please, let's start working for a real change and not a fake one. Thank you!

@Mods put this in the right section. Thank you!

Nice write up but it's just mere words and the implementation of it will take longer than expected, you see one thing about Nigeria is that there was no love and unity from the very beginning, religion and tribal bigotry is a major factor hindering growth and prosperity in a country like Nigeria.

You just highlighted the core problems in our country of which electricity is the major one and you're 100% correct on that. The thing is, we're still battling with power with our older generation who doesn't understand these things. So, it will take a bit longer for things to level up. If you look very well in our politics, you'll see that there are more younger men contesting for leadership roles than the much older ones, which means someone who ar least understands the importance of what you've listed above is about to lead. So, keep calm. It's just a matter of time, but within the next 20 years.