Problem solving 101 for Nigerian security apparatus Service chiefs led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin (2nd left), arrive for the National Security Council meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja By Mon Dec 14 2020 I remember the feeling of utter devastation and sadness I experienced when in the July of 2013, 42 students and teachers of Government Secondary School Mamudo, in Yobe State were killed in what was then the bloodiest Nigerian school attack. Some of the hapless victims were burnt alive by the dastardly insurgents. Again, In the February of 2014, 59 boys were massacred at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, in Yobe State in a now incessant wave of gory violence across the North East. Barely two months later, 276 girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary school in Chibok, Borno State by the same Boko Haram insurgents. Yet again, in the February of 2018, 110 girls were kidnapped in Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State in the same style and fashion. This feeling of helplessness at these events is understandable for me, but certainly inexcusable for the government. From a purely problem solving perspective, I have times without number isolated the issue of school attacks and wondered how the Nigerian security apparatuses have absolutely no measures against the next one, despite every red light indicating the imminence of such attacks.