By Emmanuel Udom
In the next two days, Nigeria, the acclaimed giant of Africa with a fluctuating population of 250 million people, will be celebrating its 65th birthday anniversary.
As expected, the media and other sectors will take stock and reflect on the gains and pains our country has gone through since Britain handed power to our founding fathers.
The media scorecard in the next few days will focus on the economy, education, health, sports, security, agriculture and information technology, among other areas. Juliana Francis, publisher/editor-in-chief of www.securitynewsalert.com, is supervising the scorecard reports on security in Nigeria.
These reports are expected to be released in a series of volumes. Based on her editorial guidelines and directions.
Our team of correspondents nationwide will speak with a cross-section of security experts from the government, private sector, paramilitary organisations, non-governmental organisations, and public affairs analysts on how far the federal government has fared in its anti-crime war.
Fola Author_Worrey, a former executive director of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, is no novice when it comes to security issues in Nigeria.
When the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN, invited him as guest speaker to deliver a lecture on Practical Steps To Comparing Terror in Nigeria”, Arthur_ Worry faced the mammoth crowd made of seasoned security experts and others and delivered his lecture with precision.
He told the participants at the CRAN lecture with Comrade Christopher Orji, as the national president, that Boko Haram is the deadliest terror group in our world today, and the combined security outfits in Nigeria should walk the talk and take practical and realistic steps to tame the rampaging terror group.
According to him, America did not negotiate with Osama bin Laden, and it is therefore unacceptable for Nigeria, presently under Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president, to dialogue with Boko Haram.
His words: “Maplecraft, a British risk consultancy firm, said in one of its reports that deaths from terrorism rose to 30 per cent across the globe in the last five years, with Iraq having the highest death toll of 3158 and Nigeria galloping at an average daily death casualties of 24.”
This is coming even as Reuters news said over 18,000 people are being killed every year across the globe by suspected terror groups.
Austailoa_US-based Institute for Economics and Peace, IEC, named four frontline groups operating in our world as: Islamic State from Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al-Qaeda that originated from Pakistan, spread to other countries.
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