WHILE politicians nationwide were planning defections from their parties and shopping where next to berth, a major development on the security landscape took place. Last Monday, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Mohammed announced graduation of the first batch of 800 elite Special Operations Forces, SOF. The ceremony took place at Camp Kabala, in […]

I AM almost sure that there are very few Nigerians who do not know that a lot of things are not well with our country at this point in time. It is trite to restate that insecurity is worsening, while the economy remains in the doldrums. Cost of living continues to soar as prices of just […]

SO, Mr President finally found his way to Benue State, more than two years after he assumed office. That visit was coming after no less than 10,217 persons, mostly defenceless women and children, the old and infirm, got killed in the two years that Tinubu had been president. The figures are those of rights watchdog, Amnesty International. […]

YESTERDAY was June 12. That date has become something else in the history of our dear country. At the risk of telling you what you what you already know, the presidential election of June 12, 1993 was adjudged by Nigerians and watchers of Nigerian politics worldwide to be the freest, fairest ever held in the […]

THIS week, the newswires were awash with reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede has relocated to Benue State, ostensibly in a show of force following endless killings by herdsmen militias in that state. Without fear of equivocation, one can say that Benue is the most embattled of all the states […]

TODAY’s edition is the second instalment of the conversation with the above headline. I assert again that our country is currently witnessing a barbarian invasion. As a student of strategic intelligence, I construe a barbarian invasion as a siege laid to a people or group of peoples with distinct, thriving cultures in their territory by armed bands […]

YES, you read that right: Nigeria is currently under invasion by peoples from the Sahel, fleeing the twin effects of climate change and virulent terrorism and banditry. But first, let us put this in context. According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Barbarian invasions, or the movements of Germanic peoples began before 200 BCE and lasted until the early Middle […]

ONE very laudable policy recently announced by the Tinubu administration is the Nigeria First policy initiative. Though not entirely new, and not original to the Tinubu administration, it is something which, if conscientiously implemented, has the capacity to turn around the Nigerian economy for good within a relatively short period of time. Readers might recall that in […]

LAST Tuesday, tomfoolery in full technicolour was on display at an event — a colloquium on the Nigerian Communications Act, NCA, 2003, titled: “22 years after, Reassessing the Nigerian Communications Act – Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions for a Digital Nigeria.” The event held at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos. That spectacular show of tomfoolery is another […]

INSECURITY in Nigeria is still on my mind, and I have not quite exhausted everything I can write about it. This is because insecurity is worsening daily; apart from fear of attacks by Luciferous militias,  food insecurity is worsening as the earnings of people can no longer keep pace with the rate at which prices […]

LAST week, I observed that the insecurity situation in the country is very bad. And it will remain that way as far as we can see into the future. This is because those whose duty it is to solve the problem are hardly doing anything worth talking about, beyond meetings, photo-ops and the regular platitudes that we […]

THE situation is bad. As in, VERY BAD. In the last few weeks, there has been an upsurge in wanton killings by armed non-state actors that we now refer to as herdsmen. From Uromi in Edo State to the wetlands of the various states of the Niger Delta, these gun-wielding felons have held the peoples of this […]

TODAY, my radar is on the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Sani Musa, who, last February, said that the Senate would produce legislation from the tax reform bills aimed at making Nigeria’s economy a trillion-dollar base. Senator Musa, among other things, also said: “And when you look at advanced economies, Mr. President has […]

LAST Thursday, March 27, the whole country was looking forward to a long weekend signposted by public holidays declared by the Federal Government in commemoration of the Moslem feast of Eid-el-Fitri. It was just two or three days to the end of the Ramadan fast, which was running at the same time with Lent, the fasting period […]

NIGERIA! Never a dull moment, and I’m not talking entertainment. There is an endless procession of events that impact our lives, individually and as a collective, almost on a daily basis. Just look at the issues that dominate the headlines this week, last week, the previous week, and the one before that. We are all trying to […]