Uprooting terrorists’ logistic supply chains
Nigeria’s war against terrorism and banditry has reached a point where military firepower alone cannot deliver victory. What began with the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009 has metastasised into a sprawling ecosystem of armed groups operating from forests, mountains and remote settlements, kidnapping for ransom, attacking communities, displacing populations, seizing land, rustling cattle, extorting farmers […]
Syria – Hypocrisy Heightens
SUPPOSE Syria was Libya, would the United States have waited for the death of more than 10,000 people since January 2011, before feeble attempts to apply pressure on the Bashar al Assad regime that is slaughtering Syrians, most of them unarmed civilians?
Senate’s Tough Accounting Point
A SENATE Committee’s rejection of the accounts of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, as “illegal and unacceptable” will cost the public millions of Naira, but it is a strong point about obeying the Constitution, a matter more important than mere economics.
Quiet, President @ Work
LAST week, I said that President Jonathan should avoid caving in to demands for a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, largely because I believe that a massive talking shop at which religious and ethnic grievances are aired will generate more heat than light and possibly lead to the complete collapse of Nigeria.
Impunity As Culture
WHAT follows is a tale of three cities where a culture of lawlessness is being promoted, they are not the only ones.
Preparing for the coming heavy rains
WHEN the heavy rains descend upon us later this year, nobody can say he or she was not warned enough. On February 13th 2012, Mother Nature herself fired a warning shot through a powerful flash storm that devastated parts of Lagos within a matter of minutes as workers, traders and school pupils hit the roads for the day’s activities.
