NYSC kidnap story: Burden of public trust, by Tonnie Iredia
Twenty (20) prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on their way to the Southeast for orientation and service year were kidnapped on October 1, 2026. Following their release some 6 days later, our traumatized country was greatly relieved. A report by the Imo state police command claimed that the corpers were rescued […]
What Nigeria can learn from Saudi Arabia on the war against corruption
We yearn for something different, we recognise our system’s dysfunction, but in reality we are all still too complicit, too attached to the structure that’s killing us
Amaechi/Wike street fight and looming chaos
It is a big tragedy for law enforcement in Nigeria that it’s operatives are now not different from thugs or area boys that can be deployed by politicians in street brawl.It is at the same time a testimony of the gradual collapse of state when security agents become tools in what appears as gang wars
Gen Olanrewaju wants pardon
The pardon which I am seeking will let me get over the nightmare; it will also enable me to be paid my entitlements for all the years I have served in the Nigerian Army
Facing Mount Nebo
I’M writing this piece from the Jordan Valley, about 40 km from the Jordanian capital of Amman. I have been here for a week, attending the Second World Science Forum, WSF, which took place from 7 – 11 November. More than 3,000 scientists were assembled, in fields ranging from astronomy and theoretical physics to medicine, bioengineering, genetics and robotics.
Buhari’s superficial Igbo appeasement (2)
Buhari’s unabashed charter of marginalisation against the South-East brought out millions of the Igbo youth into the Biafra agitations, which were basically anti-Buhari protests; the Igbo people had never since the civil war, been so mobilised against a regime
