This study is critically about the reading of the writing on the wall in Nigeria, the neoliberal antecedents of the Nigerian state, the Boko Haram disaster and the consequent postneoliberal possibilities in the embattled Nigerian nation-state. It has been demonstrated in the study that as a matter of fact, the widely proclaimed religious interpretation of insurgent tendencies in Nigeria is only a neoliberal rationalization of what portends to be the most critical exemplar of Nigeria’s postneoliberal challenges. Findings of the study have led to the conclusion that in essence, the war against terror in Nigeria must encompass wars against the terrors of hunger and starvation, the terror of disease, the terror of illiteracy and indeed, the terror of relative deprivation. The Boko Haram debacle in the meantime, remains the strongest manifestation of deficient postneoliberal possibilities in the country

This study is critically about the reading of the writing on the wall in Nigeria, the neoliberal antecedents of the Nigerian state, the Boko Haram disaster and the consequent postneoliberal possibilities in the embattled Nigerian nation-state. It has been demonstrated in the study that as a matte...