2027: Maiduguri blasts put Tinubu’s security record on trial

2026-03-21 - 07:03

By Luminous Jannamike After breaking their fast, four brothers stepped out to buy eyeglasses for Sallah. They never returned. From one family’s loss to a nation’s reckoning, the Maiduguri attacks, and the rising tide of terror deaths, are turning grief into a defining political question ahead of 2027. In Gwange Sabon Layi, a quiet neighbourhood in Maiduguri, Ba Musa sits in a house that no longer sounds like itself. Against the wall, four pairs of new shoes are still lined up. Black. Brown. Two slightly oversized, bought so the boys could grow into them. No one has touched them since Monday night. They belonged to his sons. Days earlier, Ba Musa had been preparing for Eid. New clothes. New shoes. A small, certain joy. On March 16, after breaking their Ramadan fast, the boys stepped out together. A quick errand. Eyeglasses for Sallah. They never came back. Three explosions; at Monday Market,