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Nigeria is currently in a raging war. It is a ‘war of attrition’. We are in a type of war the Yoruba would refer to as “ija ilara”, loosely taken to mean ‘a fight based on envy’. A fight or quarrel that has ilara at its foundation hardly ends, they say. Ilara is resentment. It is spite; ilara is petty ill-will. It is envy. That is the war we have been pushed into by the various shenanigans repeatedly slapping the cringing faces of ordinary Nigerians. We were dragged into this current war by a dumb government. Yes, it has long been smouldering. But a deaf government which serenades in the mire created by the tenacious folly of its blind followership, stoked it. The manipulation of the country by the political leadership is fuelling it, while the abysmally low standards of those with the reins of power have been fanning its destructive embers.