Photos: Top ISWAP commanders surrender as military intensifies offensive

Photos: Top ISWAP commanders surrender as military intensifies offensive

By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri The Nigerian military has recorded another breakthrough in its counter-insurgency campaign in the North-East as a fresh group of top leaders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) surrendered to troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), following sustained military offensives. The development came as […]
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Judges as undertakers, state disorder and State Police, by Owei Lakemfa

Judges as undertakers, state disorder and State Police, by Owei Lakemfa

My Lord, Honourable Justice Isah Dashen of the Federal High Court, Lokoja, was beaten to second place by his colleague in Abuja, Honourable Justice Peter Lifu, in the race for the judge that constitutes the gravest danger to democracy. Justice Lifu was so much in a hurry to claim the title that when the Court of Appeal […]

Kogi Youth Commissioner mourns slain teacher, demands justice

Kogi Youth Commissioner mourns slain teacher, demands justice

The Kogi State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Hon. Monday Aridaojo Anyebe, has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic killing of Miss Mariam Usman, a teacher at Brains Mind School, Ugbamaka Igah in Olamaboro Local Government Area. In a condolence message, Hon. Anyebe described the incident as heartbreaking and condemned the killing of the […]

Three notes on the Nigerian moment, by Suleiman A. Suleiman

Three notes on the Nigerian moment, by Suleiman A. Suleiman

I was an avid reader of the THISDAY Backpage columnists in the late 1990s to the early 2000s, from Dr Amanze Obi on Mondays to Waziri Adio on Sundays. Somewhere in the middle of the pack was always Simon Kolawole, who would end his columns with “And Four Other Things…”, where he would dispense with four other […]

Tiamiyu Ibrahim emerges NAUS national president

Tiamiyu Ibrahim emerges NAUS national president

The National Association of University Students, NAUS, has declared Tiamiyu Ibrahim of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, as its president. The decision, reached by a majority of the association’s national stakeholders at a meeting held over the weekend in Abuja, followed what they described as Ibrahim’s sacrifice in stepping down during the previous electoral […]