Nigeria, June 20 -- Nigeria is becoming synonymous with calamity. It is sad news all over. Yet, the country is not at war. The incidence of killings is scary. Human lives in Nigeria continue to lose that element of sacredness. When you think you have mourned the death of your fellow Nigerians enough and pretend to forget that calamity had ever stricken, some messengers of death-from 'nowhere'-would just strike again.

Benue State witnessed the most recent widely reported senseless killings. I said 'widely reported' because killings are ongoing in several parts of Nigeria on a large scale without being widely reported (especially in rural communities in the North). For instance, killings in both urban and rural communities in a state like ...