Curator

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J TODAY, May 29, 2017 is the second anniversary of the assumption of power by the Muhammadu Buhari  government, elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He had campaigned on a three-point agenda: fighting insecurity (especially the Boko Haram insurgency), waging a war on corruption and revamping the economy. With Boko Haram ringed round in the Sambisa Forest by the former President Goodluck Jonathan regime, Buhari has dislodged and left it factionalised and depleted with nowhere to run. The regime has successfully negotiated the release of over 150 abducted Chibok schoolgirls, but the insurgency is still a major security concern in the North East. The regime’s initial belligerent approach to the Niger Delta security issue had stirred renewed militancy, but with a change of style to dialogue the threat has subsided and the economy is, consequently, on the rebound. A terrible security threat facing the nation is the rage of armed militant...