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Herdsmen Invasion: A Regional Effort to Tackle Insecurity

Barely a month since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Professor Wole Soyinka agreed on the subject of insecurity in the nation – and particularly the recent kidnappings in the South-West – there has been an unprecedented step up in coordinated effort

AIT Suspension: How Do We Survive When the Media is Muzzled?

For the first time in donkey years, it was utterly shocking to learn that the media license of a broadcasting station, DAAR Communications, was suspended indefinitely by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). In a media release strangely broadcasted via the

A Game of Thrones: More Claws Out for Oshiomole

There was a dose of humour, at least, for Nigerians to banter about as the inauguration event on Thursday, May 29th, rolled on. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomole, had to be physically excused

Throwback Thursday: The Biafra Declaration (1967)

“Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles, recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together

Aisha Buhari Exposes the Ruse in FG’s Social Investment Programmes

After four years of the Buhari administration, the most vivid legacy it could boast of leaving behind is an opaque N500 billion Social Investment Programmes (SIP). Without stressing the fact of the matter, this statist-leaning programme, aimed at distributing a

How To Brood A Shameless Judiciary

Ordinarily, one would expect a level of consistency in verdicts rolled out by judges across board but we hardly get such. No matter how many times we tout the judiciary as the hope of the common man, the reality is

ThrowBack Thursday: Nigeria’s Amalgamation and the Marriage of Unwilling Neighbours (1914)

After the consolidation of the Southern and Northern Nigeria Protectorates in 1900, the British government, under the administration of the governor, Lord Frederick Lugard, began moves towards linking all of the other territories and protectorates into a single geographical entity

The Trials of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

It would seem that the era of trying to toy with elections via the media has come to stay, as it was revealed over the weekend that an Israeli PR firm was hired to spice up the last elections with

Why Religion is an Opiate of the People

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of the soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” –Karl Marx (1844) In the space of just one week, there were

Between Human Rights and Law Enforcement

It is a question I am sure many of us ask ourselves time and again. Are the people made for the law or is the law made for the people? Culture, which sets a major foundation for most customary laws,

The Season of Election Tribunals and Judgments

On Friday, May 3rd, the Federal High Court, Abuja sacked Abdulrauf Modibbo as House of Representatives member-elect representing Yola South/Yola North/Girei Federal Constituency of Adamawa State in the National Assembly. Modibbo, who won the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries, represented

ThrowBack Thursday: The Consolidation Before the Amalgamation of Nigeria (1900)

Before Nigeria was named a single entity in 1914, there were separate units of it in existence and independently controlled which were known as protectorates and colonies. These protectorates were governed by British citizens with little help from Africans. The

Abuja Police Raid: How Law Enforcement Exploits and Abuses Sex Workers

Even in the wake of several scandals which recently trailed the Nigerian Police Force, we seem not to have heard the last of human rights abuse as there were reported cases of raids on Abuja night clubs and alleged rape

Brain Drain, Medical Tourism and the President’s Foreign Trips

Coming on the heels of the recent controversial statement made by the Labour Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige, that Nigeria has a surplus supply of medical doctors, President Buhari on Thursday, April 25th headed to London on one of his frequent

The Impact of Insecurity on Tourism and National Development

Just before bombs went off in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, terrorists invaded a popular resort, the Kajuru Castle in Kaduna State on Good Friday, 19th April, kidnapping tourists and killing two other people in the fracas. The event was

The Game of Thrones at the 9th National Assembly

The Game of Thrones, as it appears, is neither only fictional nor limited to the screens. A game of strategy, lies and deceit; people playing tactics takes major root even in Nigerian politics. The machinations of what will be once

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