Preamble: At the risk of painting a gloomy picture, I dare submit that the tempo of
social tension, political entropy,
armed conflict, wanton bloodletting, ungoverned spaces, and the centrifugal forces at
play in Nigeria is to say the least, ramping up every day and very disturbing. Not
to be outdone, Nigeria is increasingly ticking all the right boxes of a fragile state and upping the misery index. To be sure, Nigeria increased from 94.4 index in 2006 to 97.27
index in 2020. Aforesaid upshots in Nigeria are fueled by widening
gap in social cohesion, entrenched marginalization, corruption, multidimensional poverty, inequality, injustice, uncurbed proliferation of small arms and light weapons
(SALW) and attendant quest for the Balkanization of the country by sundry
self-determination groups.
