Nigeria, March 15 -- Nigeria's heightening problem of insecurity, which recently made a devastating land fall in Abuja, the country's Federal Capital Territory, is pushing Africa's most populous country down the rough slope to state failure. For more than a decade since 2010, Nigeria has rapidly degenerated into a country at war with itself, and by itself, as the deadly Boko Haram insurgency is ravaging its North-East, marauding killer herdsmen are causing chaos in its North-West and North-Central axes; and militant Biafra separatist groups continue to lay siege to its South- Eastern corner.

Characterised by mass killings, displacements, abductions for ransom and the wanton destruction of lives and properties, thousands of Nigerians have...