Nigeria is passing through unusual times; she has been reduced to a seething cauldron of fratricidal feuds that have now made hate, bitterness, sorrows and mutual antagonisms the companions of Nigerians. Strongmen and criminal gangs have carved the country into spheres for peddling unwholesome atrocities. Boko Haram militant Islamic sect has turned the North East part of the country into a desolated war zone where life has become short, brutish and nasty and the people are daily confronted with gory maelstroms. Kidnapping- for-ransom, a new striving business in the country, is creating social convulsions in the South East and South South, while ritual killing has discounted life in the South West.
As if these are not enough burden for one nation, a new scourge of mindless killing of innocent people and large scale ruination of people’s economies has manifested in parts of the North Central and North West of the country in particular and the entire country in general. Cattle rustlers or Fulani herdsmen have been fingered as the masterminds. All these add up to a painful reality that Nigeria might become a failed state unless she is mended back to good health by the political leadership. This is the challenge before President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors of the 36 states of the federation.
