NIGERIA, Dec. 1 -- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, last week Wednesday, declared a nationwide security emergency in response to the escalating wave of kidnapping, banditry, and terrorist attacks in most parts of the country. The declaration involves several directives aimed at bolstering the country's security architecture in a bid to save the nation from the hands of marauding terrorists. He ordered the Army, Police, and intelligence services to immediately expand recruitment and deploy thousands of additional personnel to the field.

The Police and Army have been directed to recruit 20,000 additional men. Tinubu also directed the Department of State Services to deploy all trained forest guards into the field and in his words ''flush out t...