A State That Has Failed Its People: Nigeria’s Security Collapse and a Nation on the Streets

The latest spark is a string of daring school abductions in Oyo State, where gunmen kidnapped pupils and teachers from Baptist Nursery and Primary School in Yawota and Community Grammar School/LA Primary School in Esiele. At least one teacher, Michael Oyedokun, was slaughtered by his captors. His blood is on the government's hands. His children will grow up without a father. And Tinubu's ministers are still attending meetings and still taking photos, still lying.

Nigeria is bleeding—not from war alone, but from the slow, suffocating death of a government that has abandoned its most sacred duty: protecting its people. For years, the nation has been hammered by a relentless wave of kidnappings, banditry, terrorism, and school abductions. Today, the outrage has boiled over. Teachers, students, parents, and ordinary citizens have taken to the streets in Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Oyo, Ogun, Delta, Kwara, and Cross River states, chanting one demand that cannot be ignored: Bring Back Our Students.

Vol. 1

School abductions have become Nigeria's national shame. Since 2014, over 1,500 students and staff have been abducted. Oyo. Borno. Zamfara. Niger. Kebbi. Delta. Cross River. NO REGION IS SAFE. Your child can be taken in Lagos. In Ibadan. In Abuja. In the village. In the city. Education is a death sentence.

Victims remain in captivity. Families are dying from grief. Mothers are collapsing. Fathers are begging. And the government? Making promises. Sending press statements. DOING NOTHING TO RESCUE THEM.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration has committed the ultimate betrayal: leaving Nigerian children in the hands of killers. Protesters say kidnappings have become an "economy for the elite." They make money from ransom. They profit from terror. They count on the state's silence. Placards scream: "Our Chalks Were Broken by Guns. Enough, We Say." "Kidnapping Has No Place in Education." And the government? Still negotiating with ghosts.

Vol. 2: At the airport.

There are NO SAFE SCHOOLS. Parents sleep with anxiety. Children walk to class with fear. Teachers enter classrooms knowing they could be killed. When a child is abducted, education dies. When a teacher walks in with a gun instead of chalk, the future dies. When a parent cannot trust the state, the nation dies.

When a government cannot protect children walking to school, it has lost its right to rule. When teachers enter classrooms with guns instead of chalk, education is dead. When parents sleep in panic, Nigeria is already dead.

The people are furious—and they will not stop.

Vol. 3: The people are furious—and they will not stop.

Nigeria is not begging. Nigeria is commanding. The streets are speaking. The people are united. The children are still captive. The teachers are still dead. And we will not stop until victory is certain.

Digital Correspondence Nigeria