By PRINCE IBN QABEER

Nigeria is becoming a country where horror no longer shocks anyone, least of all the government. In just 72 hours, the nation witnessed tragedies that should have brought everything to a standstill, emergency meetings, firm leadership, and decisive action. Instead, we got the same old routine, silence, excuses, and a nation forced to carry on as if bleeding is normal.

Nigeria weeps, its soul bruised, its people exhausted. Violence has become a constant rhythm, pounding without pause. The grief of the last three days alone is enough to break any nation still capable of feeling.

To begin with, a serving Brigadier-General, Musa Uba, was executed on camera by ISWAP.

A whole General, captured, humiliated, murdered and Nigeria simply moved on.

If someone at that level can be taken so easily, what does that say to the ordinary citizen fighting daily to survive?

Furthermore, In Kebbi, 25 schoolchildren were hauled away like property, and their teacher was murdered in cold blood.

Additionally, In Kaduna, a priest and entire community members vanished without a trace.

Subsequently, In Zamfara, terrorists stormed in, killed three people, and abducted 64 in a single sweep.

To compound this, in Kwara, worshippers were shot inside a church, five lives ended in minutes, others dragged into the unknown.

All this happened within three days and we still dare to call this “governance”?

The country’s calm is not resilience, it is resignation. Nigerians are not numb, they are tired of expecting a government that consistently chooses indifference over action. Leadership has become a cycle of scripted condolences, recycled promises, and a frightening absence of responsibility.

This is no longer insecurity, this is the collapse of duty, this is a nation left exposed while those trusted to protect it look away.

People now live like targets. Parents pray harder than they sleep. Villages empty overnight. Communities shrink into fear. And the message echoing from those in authority grows clearer by the day, “You’re on your own.”

A government that cannot protect a General, cannot secure schoolchildren, cannot safeguard worshippers, and cannot uphold its own credibility has failed at the most basic expectation of leadership.

Nigeria cannot keep pretending to be stable while its citizens die unheard and unprotected. We are approaching a point where the country may lose not just hope, but the emotional capacity to care.

And when a nation stops feeling, everything else is already gone.