Nigeria’s security crisis has become an exhausting national tragedy. From Zamfara to Plateau, the story repeats: lives lost, communities razed, children kidnapped, soldiers ambushed. Yet every year, the National Assembly approves record-breaking defence budgets, ₦80 billion in 1999, ₦6 trillio
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