WHEN Twitter-addicted Nigerians stumbled on this posting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter handle last week, the whole Internet went abuzz, with most people expressing their dismay at Buhari’s refusal to call a spade by its correct name.

THERE is anger in the land. The horrific massacre of people in the Ukpabi Nimbo Community in Uzo-Uwani, Enugu State has put country on the boil. Coming on the heels of similar attacks in other parts of the country,

We are looking asking for an eighteen-month moratorium before we can start paying , so that we will be able to strategise…To develop the IGR is not overnight, it is a long term programme that one has to plan for…and we cannot say we are going to cut salaries and wages.” Governor Yari, Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, April 28, 2016, in Abuja.

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Nigeria has become like the wild west, with guns blazing bandits, coming into town and leaving dead people and damaged properties in their wake. Where is the law and where is the sheriff? This is so wrong, totally wrong. It is shocking to witness the incessant spate of attacks by the Fulani cattle herders and the wanton loss of life and livelihood.