Northern Nigeria is under siege
NIGERIA AT 60 NORTH EAST ALLIANCE RIGHTS (NEAR) October 1, 2020. As you must have read from President Buhari's independence day speech, our country used to be a population of about 45 million people at independence 60 years ago, today we are grappling with a population of over 200 million people. This we believe lies one of the fundamental things that are wrong with us as a people. We have no planning for the future. Each government came and squandered our collective prosperity without making plans for the next day or for the next generation. We have had so many October 1st. We celebrated, made speeches and moved on. For more than 5 years we have had insurgent attacks. We made condolence speeches for the dead and moved on. For a number of years we have had gigantic figures of corruption, the recent one being N2. 67b for school feeding funds found in private pockets. Like the previous ones discovered, this one too would be swept under the carpet without any arrest...