Punch Editorial BoardThe recent depressing report by the Nigerian Security Tracker has reaffirmed Nigeria’s mounting and seemingly intractable security challenges. While Boko Haram has been able to hold sway in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, cross-border banditry has been responsible for many deaths in Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Sokoto states. Striking alliances to stop the free flow of criminals into the country is therefore imperative. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria started five years after Boko Haram; now the Islamists have been defeated. The same coalition is needed to end the reign of Boko Haram in this country.

Source: Punch June 19, 2019 23:03 UTC