Category: Opinion

By Oyeyinka Fabowale The Nigerian revolution unraveled to a seeming denouement, (incurable cynics would insist, to a new phase), when the Federal Government rose from a National Security Council meeting last Tuesday and announced a rash of measures to end the intractable security crises ravaging the country. But Nigerians appeared least excited and showed no […]

For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have terrorised communities, attacking villages, pillaging, raping, stealing cattle, ambushing travellers and kidnapping people. Groups have also turned to mass kidnapping, seizing hundreds of students in a string of raids on schools — apparently emulating tactics used by jihadists hundreds of kilometres (miles) away. Here’s what […]

In this file photo taken on July 15, 2020 Nigerian former Foreign and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala smiles during a press conference in Geneva, following her hearing before World Trade Organization 164 member states’ representatives, as part of the application process to head the WTO as Director General. – Key WTO ambassadors tapped Nigeria’s Ngozi […]

By Muftau Gbadegesin For years, the hideouts of bandits in Nigeria were a mystery. DSS, and other top intelligence services seem helpless in handling the rigors of tracing and tracking the criminals. The services failed to give helpful tips and useful information on ways to rid the atrocities of those bloodthirsty monsters. Freely and with […]

By Alao Abiodun The menace of student abductions especially in the North, reflects the growing strength of criminal gangs and the weakness of the federal government and its security agencies. Kidnappings, abductions now prevalent across the country show that the nation’s fragile security status is under serious threat. Sadly, in the past few months, Niger, […]

The clamour to right the anomaly in the Nigeria’s state system seems not to rankle the governing elite yet. They continue to procrastinate on the urgency of restructuring. Two recent state actions underscore the point being made. The first is the recent extension of the tenure of the Inspector General of Police by three months. […]

Dear President Buhari,This letter, my second to you in five months, will begin with a very, very absurd question: Mr. President, will Nigeria drift into another civil war under your watch simply because the ‘Giant of Africa’ does not know how to manage its cows? Yes, absurd: for, absurdity is the faithful cohort of the […]

By Tunde Odesola History, like Ekiti’s Ikogosi springs of warm and cold fountains, embodies profundities. Either for good or bad reasons, history always cascades down the confluence of discovery, depth and truth, meandering into the past. Whenever history repeats itself for good, cymbals accompany resounding ovations – like the joy of a football cup game […]

By Jide Oluwajuyitan To be sure, the herdsmen had acquired a notoriety for mindless killings that earned them an unsavoury reputation as the fourth most deadly terrorist group in the world long before Buhari became president.  But there is no doubt the irresolute deportment of President Buhari on whose desk the buck stops contributed to […]