The fight to save Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan

Last week ended on another note of triumph for the terrorists who are sworn to make life unlivable for Nigerians while the rest of the country mourns. We all came to the sad realization of the death in captivity of General Rabe Abubakar. He had been abducted with his wife about four weeks ago by terrorists along the Marabar Musawa-Kafinsoli highway in the Matazu LGA of Katsina State.
General Abubakar was from Katsina, a state whose government was quick to let the whole world know that the unlucky general died of natural causes, namely a deadly combination of high blood pressure and diabetes. In the skewed logic of the government’s definition of what constitutes a natural ailment — the ...