Digital security command centres – for fancy?
Across Nigeria, governors have unveiled security command and control centres with fanfare. Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Oyo, Gombe and Edo have invested, or announced investments, in facilities built around CCTV surveillance, drones, communications links, control rooms, data analysis and response coordination. Enugu’s centre is linked to AI-enabled cameras and long-range drones with day-and-night vision; Edo’s […]
Police mass action
Socio-political activist, Omoyele Sowore, last week threatened to lead retired and serving personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, nationwide over poor welfare. This comes as the National Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria, NARPON, bemoans the delayed payment of N758 billion outstanding pension liabilities from their Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to its members. […]
Adewale as World Customs boss
July 1, 2025, went down in history as a day yet another Nigerian super achiever, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (MFR), the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, CG of NCS, was handed the mantle to lead a major global platform for trade administration and control, the World Customs Organisation, WCO. Adewale’s well-deserved appointment, coupled with a […]
Bandits’ massacre of 70 Plateau vigilantes
The recent brutal massacre of over 70 members of a vigilante squad in Plateau State shows the danger that Nigerians are now exposed to due to the failure of the Nigerian state to protect its citizens from terrorists masquerading behind different monikers: armed herdsmen, Boko Haram, bandits, Lakurawa, ISIS, Mahmuda, and others. The vigilantes, from […]
Action needed against malnutrition
On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Federal Government revisited an area in which successive regimes have failed – malnutrition. At the Nutrition and Food Summit held in Abuja, a presidential aide on public health, Uju Anwukah, confessed that Nigeria ranked second globally in malnutrition, especially among children and teenagers. This ugly and embarrassing disclosure was […]
Insecurity: Rooting out saboteurs
Infiltration and sabotage are the main sustainers of the insecurity that is threatening to sink Nigeria as we know it. This threat presents three broad forms: Boko Haram/ISWAP, Fulani herdsmen terrorists and bandits. While Boko Haram/ ISWAP are unpretentious about their jihadist ideology, the herdsmen and bandit terrorists also operate with the same style. They […]
