Nigeria, June 1 -- We are on the march again - 27 years after our return to democratic governance and three years into the tenure of the Tinubu administration. Centrifugal forces are on the ascendancy. Terrorism is being exported across regional boundaries. Two sections of the nation, which were famous for either republicanism or monarchy before colonialism, are befuddled by the insistence of another section up north on nomadism as a way of life. Under that contrived civilisational incongruity, our worst nightmares are being played out in the open.

Blood is flowing. Villages are being depopulated. Mothers are being raped. Toddlers are being kidnapped and tortured. Abductors are demanding and receiving ransom payments with minimum decoyin...