THE Lagos State Government has said that it requires over N370 billion ($2 Billion) in five years to meet the sewage need of the state.

As you approach the internally displaced persons’ camp, mostly populated by women and children and situated at a corner of the Zang Commercial School, Bukuru, a funny smell hits your nostrils. You see the inmates going about their daily chores wearing long faces. Except the laughter from children who play quietly in the compound, the sight is depressing.

They had gone to bed that fateful night in Gboko, Benue State, not knowing they would not sleep to see the break of a new day – no thanks to the outage in public power supply which compelled the head of the family, Lawani Oye, to put on his power generating set

Since July 26, 2009, acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by the Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati wal Jihad (People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”), also known as Boko Haram, have eclipsed Nigeria’s long standing security threats such as piracy, militancy, kidnappings, and armed robbery.

This is the story of Pastor Ayodele Joseph Oritsejafor’s crusade against members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram. It is also the story of a crusade which foresaw the dangers that this group constituted at a time when the Federal Government of Nigeria chose to play footsy.