Nigeria, Jan. 4 -- As Year 2025 becomes history, there is the need to attempt a forensic analysis of this momentous year, in which Nigeria suffered its first "invasion" by a foreign power since its flag independence in 1960. While the United States of America's intervention in the killing field that Nigeria has become is welcome, it is nonetheless a violation of our sovereignty, regardless of the esoteric language that aims to make it look harmless.

We have tried to own the assault by calling it a "collabo", as they say, but no one can deny that we did not ask for it, and that it was rammed down our throats. All the same, we deserve the humiliation because we could not put our own house in order. The late President Muhammadu Buhari and h...