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0 NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/rudeboy-warns-nigeria-is-actually-at-war/Nigerian singer Paul Okoye, known professionally as Rudeboy, declared the country is “actually at war” on Tuesday, reacting to a relentless string of kidnappings he says Nigerians have come to accept as normal.
In a post on X, the former P-Square act said Nigeria was moving from one abduction to the next with a frequency that should alarm the public, but instead appeared to be passing with dull indifference. His frustration centred not just on the volume of cases but on what he described as a collective numbness that has set in among citizens.
The remarks land against a backdrop of documented security deterioration across multiple states. Nigeria has reached a point where mass abductions no longer produce the sustained outrage or urgency they once did, with headlines appearing, officials issuing statements and security agencies launching rescue operations, only for the nation to gradually move on until another attack occurs.
An analysis of school abductions in Nigeria spanning more than 16 years shows what began as isolated incidents has grown into what security analysts describe as a “lucrative criminal enterprise,” exploited by armed groups to extract ransom from families and pressure the government.
Rudeboy has spoken out on insecurity before. When gunmen attacked worshippers in Jos during Palm Sunday celebrations in March 2026, he took to X to say Nigerians were “not angry enough” about the deteriorating security situation across the country. Tuesday’s post goes further, framing the kidnapping cycle not as a governance failure but as an active conflict that the public has stopped recognising as such.
His use of war language reflects a growing sentiment among Nigerian public figures that the language of crisis has lost its power to move institutions or citizens. Whether that view accelerates pressure on the administration of President Bola Tinubu remains to be seen.
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