Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The security situation in Nigeria is one that many people in the country take with utmost seriousness, and which provokes much concern and worry, considering the climate of fear in which most of us live - even as our law enforcement keeps making spirited efforts to contain the situation. Yet, a regular rehash of our national reality, across many of its geographical spaces and communities, evokes narratives of numerous violent crimes, theft, carjacking, alongside the activities of militant groups, kidnappings, and also terrorist attacks by Boko Haram and similar franchises.

Many of these manifestations of insecurity spawn gory statistics that also find expression in numerous travel advisories pointing to alarming risk ...