Daily Post Nigeria
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In the eyes of her citizens and foreigners alike, Nigeria is presently seen as one of the most insecure locations in the world. According to the Global Peace Index, the country currently ranks 148 out of 163 nations with serious defects in security matters. And the reasons are very simple and easy to establish, especially the perennial and the alarming dimension that kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria has taken.
What started as child’s play around 2006 at the beginning of militancy in the Niger-delta region has spread like epidemic to other parts of the country, especially to the northern and western part, and it has remained the most virulent form of banditry in Nigeria. It has also become the most pervasive and intractable violent crime in the country at the moment.