IN NIGERIA, A PLACE WHERE LIFE HAS NO VALUE, 400 SCHOOL BOYS GETTING ABDUCTED IS NO BIGGIE

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It's only in a society where human life has no value and human being has not much worth that 400 school children get abducted and both the government and the citizens shrug their shoulders and move one with their daily lives as though nothing has happened at all.

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