Terrorism in Nigeria: A Call For Collective Action by Citizens.
It’s no longer news that terrorism has become a cankerworm in Nigeria with thousands of innocent citizens killed since this terror assumed a startling dimension. Between January and July, 2014 alone, Boko Haram, the Islamic Fundamentalist group which believes that ‘‘Western education is a sin” has killed and maimed over 2,000 Nigerians in about 95 attacks carried out around the North-East States of the country and Abuja. Many say Boko Haram leadership has international connections to Al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb ( AQIM ), Al-Qa`ida core, Al-Shabab , the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa ( MUJAO ), Mokhtar Belmokhtar ’s factions, and other militant groups outside Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world with over 168 million people according to the World Bank. Since independence and pre-colonial era Nigerians have lived together as one people bound by a common destiny; after her civil war ( 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970) . Despite th...