Social problems: An analysis of kidnapping, insurgency and the Boko Haram menace in Nigeria
By Hassan Idris The surge of kidnapping, insurgency, and Boko Haram incidents in recent time in Nigeria has been overwhelmingly alarming. This perpetual act of criminality is perpetrated by well established and emerging criminal groups as well as individual criminals for different degrees of reasons. The kidnapping of Chibok and Dapchi girls among other prominent cases of kidnapping orchestrated by the Boko Haram sect is a greater dirge that has remained in the hearts of many Nigerians. The killings of our fathers, mothers, children; raping of our women and destruction of properties in Borno,...