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Last Friday, September 8, 2017, I watched, listened and read the intriguing statement of the Nigerian army made public by the Chief of Training and Operations of the Nigerian Army, one Major General David Dawandi Ahmadu to the effect that it was carrying an exercise code-named Exercise Egwu Eke II (Python Dance II).  The statement underlined the manifest function of the exercise that is: “Emphasis will be placed on raids, cordon and search operations, anti-kidnapping drills, road blocks, check points, patrols, humanitarian relief activities such as medical outreach and show of force to curb the rising threat to national security in the South Eastern part of the country.”  However, the latent function is to pacify agitators for social justice and self-determination as the statement puts it, the exercise is “to transit into real time operations thereby fulfilling both training and operational objectives of sharpening operational skills of personnel as well as provid...

Abdul Mahmud Troll the Facebook accounts/pages of those you think should teach us to understand why we fail at uniting our people, or why we lack understanding of those centrifugal pressures that undermine our unity, and you will see how we have started on the long road paved with dumb skulls to peril.  Unfortunately, these Facebook compatriots have become megaphones of hate and preachers of violence and their accounts/pages places for whipping up ethnic sentiments, mobilizing folks for reprisal attacks. The Nigerian state has been at its weakest, at least, for a decade or more now. This is a nation-state that cannot defend its citizens against ritualist, herdsmen, kidnappers, militants, robbers, and thieving politicians; this is a nation-state that cannot defend itself against BH, JAMBS , and ISWAP.  Lest we forget 19 citizens or more were murdered in their nights of sleep a few days ago in Plateau state; police officers and lecturers of the University...