I blogged a few days back about the insurgency in the Delta region, which has seemingly quietened down just a little bit for only a little while.
Now, we have trouble in northern Nigeria (again):
Dozens of people have been killed after Islamist militants staged three attacks in northern Nigeria, taking the total killed in two days of violence to 150.
A BBC reporter has counted 100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.
Witnesses told the BBC a gun battle raged for hours in Potiskum, Yobe State and a police station was set on fire.
Some of the militants follow a preacher who campaigns against Western schools.
Nigeria as a nation is an artificial colonial construct with little or no common characteristics among the various ethnic and religious groups that were forced together.
The federal government is incompetent and corrupt. It cannot manage a single conflict, as in the Delta, without flaring up even more tensions.
It would be better just to allow the secession of the three main regions in Nigeria, with democratic transitions managed by the UN and other international bodies. That would provide for some peace, at least for a little longer.
