Banditry: Tinubu and northern appointees, by Abu Shekara That Northern Nigeria, especially the North-West has, for the past nine years, been left at the mercy of terrorists is bad enough, the effrontery is the excuses and buck passing that's coming out of certain quarters in the country on the issue. The promoted narrative is that a substantial number of President Tinubu's cabinet portfolios on defence are held by Northerners from the most terrorism ravaged zone; Ministers of Defence Mohammed Badaru, Jigawa and Bello Matawalle, Zamfara and Chief of Defence Staff, General...