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By Adekunle Adekoya THE Yoruba people of South-Western Nigeria have an anecdotal saying that is applicable to the present state of insecurity in Nigeria. “Ti nani nani ba nna ni, ti gbani gbani nworan lai daa l’ekun, a je wipe gbani gbani lo ni ki nani nani maa nani lo.” The nearest equivalent of this saying, when translated is: “If someone is beating you, and a bystander is looking on unperturbed, then the bystander is likely in support of the person beating you.” I think, in all matters particular, this is not just applicable to the insecurity situation, but actually indicates the state of affairs as regards the ability or otherwise of the security apparatus to deal with the mounting scourge of insecurity. The Plateau killings of last December remain fresh and all of us, those that still have the milk of human kindness that is, and those who have empathy for the plight of their fellow men are still having it tough to discern how the security architecture could be caught, intelligence...

...NSCIA, CAN urge FG, states THE Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, have expressed concern over the high level of insecurity in the country, asking the federal and state governments to rescue the people from terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and ritual killings currently bedevilling Nigeria. The Christian body also  suggested that important steps must be taken by government to re-engineer the country’s security architecture by winning the peoples' trust and confidence as well as demonstrating that no one was above the law, while the NSCIA said governments at all levels must work harder to restore security in the country. Rising from a special extra-ordinary meeting of its Expanded General Purpose Committee, EGPC, which was presided over the President-General and Sultan of Sokoto,  Mohammed Sa'ad Abubakar 111, the group in a communique signed by Secretary-General,  Is-haq O. Oloyede, and Director of Administration,...