LAST year, a farmer at Anifekede in Ubulu-Uku kingdom, in Aniocha South local government area of Delta State, Chiedu Ogbonna, was shot in his farm by a suspected Fulani herdsman for allegedly daring to ask him and his fellow herdsmen to stop destroying his farm crops with their cattle.

“I have been receiving text messages from an organization under the auspices of Network for Good Governance (N4GG) asking me to check newspapers for information relating to good governance. How they got my telephone number remains a mystery. The good thing about them is that their activities have kept me abreast of issues relating to governance in Nigeria,” 75 years old Onome Akpokrise, a farmer living in a rural area of Delta State, disclosed.

On 23rd April 2014, the respected U.S.-based online military News Agency magazine called StrategyPage wrote the following:
”Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques, the Government of Cameroon has alleged.

Oh Nigeria, how I feel sorry for you. They burn your cities, kill your citizens, rape your women, steal your children, pillage your lands, insult you openly, desecrate your holy places and destroy your future; yet all you do is bicker amongst yourselves.

Gen. Samuel Ogbemudia is one Nigerian leader who is worried about the spate of killings and bombings in the Northern part of the country. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he bared his mind on the security situation in the country and proffered solutions to some of them.