Adeola Aderounmu

These days of terrorists attack in Northern Nigeria are both funny and not funny. It is not funny because lives are lost daily and sorrows have been forced into the lives of innocent families. These deaths are tragic and condemnable.

What is funny are headlines like: NIGERIA TO SEND TROOPS TO MALI, NIGERIA TO SEND TROOPS TO GUINEA-BISSAU

Troops to other countries?

A Yoruba adage says that you cannot go to sleep with fire at the top of your roof.

The rulers of Nigeria have done exactly that. They are not only sleeping, they are also dreaming.

Sending troops to Mali and Guinea Bissau while souls are terminated by suicide bombers in Northern Nigeria is the height of foolishness and madness among low thinking rulership that has come to characterised a failed country like Nigeria.