Nigerian federal government has battled Boko ham and other forms of insurgents for sometime now and people though that it is because of the former president who didn’t finish his presidential term and was of Muslim ethnicity that led to this and there were hopes that since Buhari is a Muslim the security situation will be much better. Nigeria is more divided that ever and the insecurity situation in the northern part has started raising concerns. why is that so hard for most African countries to handle the insecurity in its own soil?