FOLLOWING the agelong infrastructural decay in Nigeria, occasioned by leadership failure, efforts were made towards revamping the various national infrastructure across the country.

Two volcanic explosions in two Churches in Zaria, and another equally thunderous bang at another Church in Kaduna, erected the new foundation for the latest rounds of mass human slaughtering and heart wrenching destruction of property in Kaduna State last week.

Before the legion of excuses are laid on the table to tolerate the complicity of Nigerian leaders in the orgy of violence occasioned by terrorist activities, it should be made clear that many of the leaders, past and present have blood on their hands.

In the global economy, a country’s neighbor is not the nation sharing its border; it is the biggest trading partner – which might be half the planet away. Nigeria’s neighbours, in that sense, are not Benin Republic, Cameroun, or Niger. They are India, United States, Netherlands, Spain, and Brazil. Together, they account for 70 per cent of our external trade.

Since the enthronement of the Fourth Republic, the National Assembly and the legislative arm of government have been enmeshed in one crisis or another.