Responding to terrorism in Nigeria
Source: 234next Terrorism in Nigeria is a direct consequence of the people’s deep dissatisfaction with their government, said participants at the fifth policing executive forum held recently in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, which dwelt on responding to the emerging trends of terrorism in the country. A lecturer of Mass Communications at the University of Maiduguri, Abubakar Mu’azu, while tracing the antecedents of several dissenting groups along Nigeria’s geographical lines, including the Niger Delta militants in the South South; the Oodu’a People’s Congress in the South West; the Bakassi Boys and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra in the South East, and the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnah Lid Da’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, in the North, said Nigerian leaders mishandling of national issues gave rise to these groups. “There is widespread disenchantment with the Nigerian State arising from its failure to meet its ob