Self-help on insecurity, the Ohuhu, Abia way as solution, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST week, I asked fellow Nigerians, readers of this column what else we can do about insecurity that we haven’t done. It was a rhetorical question. Truth is there’re lots we can do that we haven’t done. Are we no longer Nigerians? The most resilient group of peoples in the world? Are we not the ones that […]
Tackling the insecurity bug from foundation (2), by Adekunle Adekoya
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 […]
Tackling the insecurity bug from its foundations, by Adekunle Adekoya
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 […]
Cry, the state in which citizens are insecure, by Adekunle Adekoya
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 […]
Trillion-dollar economy impossible without education, by Adekunle Adekoya
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 […]
Uromi killings: Poor optics of a country under incompetent security governance, by Adekunle Adekoya
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 […]
