DECREE No. 1 of 1999Also in 1999, in order to give the service more bite and reposition it for greater efficiency, Abdulsalami ABUBAKAR (Gen./retd) in exercise of his powers as President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by virtue of Instrument No. 1 of 1999 relating to the general duties of the SSS as set out in Section 2-(3) of the decree’s objectives, the SSS at this point, was mandated to carry out the following functions amongst others :

A MAJOR fallout of the 2015 presidential election, specifically the defeat of Goodluck Jonathan by the incumbent president, Mohammadu Buhari, is the high level of bitterness it has engendered among a wide section of the Igbo people. I should say that the kind of commentaries through which this bitterness is expressed may not necessarily reflect the general position of the Igbo.

I still remember how every minority in the Western world seemed to walk taller, with more confidence, the day Barack Obama won the US Presidential election. I was living in France at the time, a country which is unfortunately no stranger to identity politics and resurgences of xenophobia, and I remember swaggering into my lecture hall. Black street cleaners had swagger; black workers had swagger

IT has been exactly 175 days since I made my previous contribution as a guest on this page. However, every Tuesday morning from approximately five thousand seven hundred and thirty one miles away before most Nigerians wake up,

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