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The country is full of blood. Every new day, there are stories of killings across the country. It is no longer a case of killing one or two which shouldn’t even be the case at all, it has grown to become a case of killing in huge numbers. Between Friday and Sunday penultimate weekend, over 50 citizens lost their lives in attacks in Kastina, Kaduna and Benue states. This time the government went quiet including the directorates of security agencies in-charge of public relations. Incidents resulting in deaths have become so frequent that the usual condolence messages won’t suffice.
The government, now accustomed to the terrible situation, has to play the ostrich, elevating politics over governance. In this particular matter concerns over protection of lives and property. Rather than government collapsing and giving to new faces those in power are holding out, spending huge funds that wouldn’t have been available if they still were in private enterprises to buy party forms for the next electoral contest already scheduled for December and January next year.
We have become funny people. When hoodlums ß3go on their primitive assignments and citizens get unjustly killed, the president issues a condolence message in which he consoles victims’ families and pledges to fish out the perpetrators. Next would be to summon a meeting of service chiefs giving the impression those officers are bereft of brilliance and intelligence, they would have to be called out each time a calamity happens and told what to do. Circus show. Playing and enjoying, fiddling while Rome burns. This style or is it “strategy” has turned us a laughing stock across the globe.
Nigeria our beloved country would appear to be the only country in the whole world where leaders see evil people kill innocent people and still stay dancing around what ordinarily should be the most dangerous matter confronting the state. No other country does this. Iran was harassed from the air, it went on a search for possible saboteurs in their midst, analyzing trends they got hold of some people and used them to set an example of fate that could befall anybody discovered shortchanging the stability of the country. Israel would find you wherever you hide and give you the final treatment.
European nations would do the same. No pity, no sentiments. It is not a case of capturing clear terrorists and saying they are being de-radicalised and re-integrated into society. We have had stories of even some possibly enlisted into the military. Yes, Muhammadu Buhari, himself a religious irredentist, saw nothing wrong with the option yet he looked forward to a country with stability and peace. What an irony.
It is known that those disturbing our peace invade in large numbers using few vehicles but mostly motorcycles. They carry out their invasions mostly at nights. When this is not the case they lay ambush. In most of the instances they succeed and still leave the scene so freely without any trace for such a huge number of renegades. This should bother us. It tells a story.
Where is the intelligence ability? What have we made of technology? The case of the Air Force appears very funny. A den of marauders is discovered, the Air Force goes bombing without the ground forces advancing simultaneously to confront those who may escape the air attack and want to escape the scene. Some of us hear this and can’t help wondering what we are actually doing.
We hear the Defense Minister speak at times and wonder if those in the security duty actually understand what we are up against. Do they have a good grasp of the anatomy of insecurity plaguing the country? The explanation is always funding, welfare, no weapons, foreign sponsorship. Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mali are dealing fatal blows to terrorists and keeping them at bay. Would it be correct then to say they have more money than us or that they have expended far more than we have done on security and protection of their country. Could it be about poor training? Truth is the country has been spending huge money on defense matters. A foreign report gives us a picture.
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Nigeria’s military expenditure surged sharply in 2025, rising by 55% year-on-year to $2.1 billion, as worsening insecurity across the country forced increased defence spending.
This is according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The report places Nigeria among the fastest-growing military spenders globally in 2025, highlighting how internal security pressures are reshaping fiscal priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.
What the report in SIPRI data shows Nigeria’s military spending jumped from roughly $1.35 billion in 2024 to $2.1 billion in 2025, marking one of the steepest increases in Africa.The surge was largely driven by intensifying security challenges, including insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West, and widespread communal and separatist tensions.
What is the tactic? Taking 50 or 60 soldiers to a location leading to planned attacks by Islamic terrorists, who confront them with overwhelming numbers. Isn’t it shameful in more than 15 years of insurgency attacks we are unable to come our to streets, bushes our environment to take out felons in a very decisive manner. If it will about South East Northern elites would place the onus on the leaders,talk to your boys we hear.
Why are they not doing the same. Most of the groups making life difficult in the country share the Islamic faith, it is difficult to understand why the leaders aren’t calling them to order in the most vehement manner.
Mali has just shown us how a country can react to threat to national good, peace and stability. The security forces fought with amazing commitment. They knew the magnitude of the threat, had correct assessment and in dealing with it, executed it with clinical finish. No stories. Those who didn’t want the country to survive were summarily dispatched to hell where they belong, no politics, no double talk, straight challenge, good results. Can we take lessons? Political will. Do we have it?
