Nigeria, March 12 -- Sometime in March and April last year, my hometown, the city of Yola, turned into a furnace. Temperatures soared to an inhumane 47 degrees celsius; a level of heat so intense that it could cook a meal if left under the sun long enough. And what happened? People died. Not because this was an unavoidable natural disaster, not because this was an unpredictable act of God, but because the government at the state and national levels are a complete and utter failure. Year after year, heatwaves claim lives, yet there is no preparation, no adaptation, no urgency. The suffering is predictable, the deaths avoidable and the failure of leadership undeniable. The Nigerian people are dying slow, preventable deaths because of the cr...