Sixteen Years a Lesson Teacher, By Tolu Ogunlesi
The best time to deal with a wound is as soon as it emerges; there is no second-best time. First we ignore, then we ignore again, then things go out of hand, then we’re forced to sit up, and pay a heavy price for our initial nonchalance. Now we’re on the cusp of another rebellion in the South-East, and we need to do something about it. Something a bit more creative than a random and ruthless military clampdown, which failed to work with Boko Haram, failed in the Niger Delta, and will similarly fail with any other manifestation of the potent mix of poverty and perceived marginalisation in Nigeria.