A culture of dread: Nigeria’s post-cosmopolitanism, By Jibrin Ibrahim

Over the past three decades, millions of private citizens have acquired arms, top-level combat arms, and are using them to kill other private citizens to steal their possessions or to avenge their god from whatever harm they believe had been done to him. They kill without thinking or consideration because they actually have little or no understanding of the faith they espouse. Cults have continued to grow and strengthen, and people kill others to remove their body parts for sale or the performance of rituals. Jihadi groups have been able to sustain and indeed expand their actions for decades.