NIGERIA IS BLEEDING: WHEN WILL OUR LEADERS END THIS ATTACKS, KILLINGS AND TERROR?

ONN Kwara State 19.11.2025

Nigeria is under siege. Day after day, the headlines read like war-time bulletins: villages attacked, families kidnapped, commuters ambushed, citizens murdered in cold blood. Terrorist attacks have become so constant that the nation risks normalising the abnormal. The land is soaked with fear, grief, and unanswered questions.

And the most painful question of all remains: Why is this so difficult to end?

We have a President who has scored high marks in economic reforms, A1 in courage, A1 in bold decisions, A1 in restructuring the foundations of our economy. But when it comes to security, the government has earned an embarrassing F9, because the violence consuming this nation is not just happening, it is sponsored, funded, protected, and defended in high places.

And because these killings are sponsored, it is even more shocking that government has not decisively confronted the forces behind them. How can a nation with intelligence agencies, military might, and regional influence be unable to crush ragtag killers on motorcycles? How can a country that deploys security operatives overnight for political rallies suddenly become helpless when bandits massacre entire communities?

The answer is bitter: someone benefits from the bloodshed.

Where Are Our Politicians?

Where are the men and women elected to protect the Nigerian people?

Where are the governors sworn in to defend lives?

Where are the senators and representatives who should be shouting on the floor of the National Assembly until the roof shakes?

Where are the opposition figures who should be speaking boldly for the voiceless?

Or have the killings stopped touching their hearts?

Have we become so heartless that the blood of ordinary Nigerians no longer moves those in power?

Has life in this country become so cheap that mass graves no longer provoke outrage?

What then is the purpose of leadership, elected, appointed, or traditional, if the people remain unprotected?

We Only Have One Nigeria

Our leaders behave as if they have a spare country somewhere else.

But the truth is simple: we have only ONE Nigeria.

If this one collapses, every title, every office, every political structure collapses with it.

You cannot govern a graveyard.

You cannot lead a nation that has bled to death.

Why Is Nigeria Silent?

One of the most disturbing things today is the silence,

A dangerous, deadly silence across media, across government, across society.

Terrorists are slaughtering citizens, yet social media is full of political gossip.

Politicians are posting photos, doing media tours, planning conventions, fighting internal battles,

while an entire country is bleeding.

Where is our outrage?

Where is our collective voice?

When will Nigerians stand up and pressure government to end this madness?

Silence is complicity.

Silence is surrender.

Silence is slow suicide.

We Must Not Accept This As Normal

Kidnapping must never become normal.

Mass killings must never become normal.

Terrorist attacks must never become normal.

No citizen, rich or poor, northern or southern, Christian or Muslim,should live in fear.

Nigeria is not a battlefield.

Nigeria is not a slaughterhouse.

Nigeria is not a hunting ground for terrorists.

A Call to Conscience

This is a moral collapse as much as a security collapse.

Our leaders must remember their oath.

Our politicians must rediscover their humanity.

Our institutions must reclaim their courage.

And the Nigerian people must find their voice.

If we do not rise now, then when?

If we do not demand accountability now, then when?

If the killings do not move our leaders to action, what will?

The bloodshed must end.

And it must end NOW.