Nigeria: Security Challenges - Digging Deep, With Our Backs Are On the Wall

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Nigeria: Security Challenges - Digging Deep, With Our Backs Are On the Wall

The state of insecurity in the country is so high that it is difficult for Nigerians not to think of jumping ship and going somewhere safer. Nigeria's governing class, the source of all our problems have made their arrangements, they have bought houses abroad, transferred money ou of the country and are ready to leave the country within minutes. That is why we have a large fleet of private jets in our airports ready to take out those who have ruled and ruined Nigeria outside the country at short notice. For the poor and even the middle class, the only possibility of exit is to neighbouring countries and on that score our backs are on the wall, there is nowhere to run. Cameroon is facing the Boko Haram insurgency in the north and the Ambazonian civil war in the south. Niger and Chad are both suffering from insurgency by jihadist movements and warlordism while Benin Republic has just become a target of jihadist attack so for us, we just have to sing with Wole Soyinka:

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