Xenophobic attacks and ANC’s leadership failures
South Africa is once again disgracing itself. The latest wave of xenophobic attacks against African migrants, including Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Somalis, has reopened wounds that should have healed after the shameful outbreaks of 2008, 2015 and 2019. Shops have been looted, businesses destroyed, homes abandoned and livelihoods shattered simply because fellow Africans crossed borders […]
Demuren’s new deal for air travellers
IF what Dr. Harold Demuren, the Director- General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, said recently is anything to go by, then air travellers in Nigeria are on their way to assuming the status of “customer as king.”
Sanitising NDDC
THE third Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the chairmanship of Air Vice-Marshal Larry Koinyan was finally dissolved on September 13, 2011, after an intractable and distracting power play, petition writing and allegations of misdemeanour among the top echelon of the commission.
National Assembly and the nation’s security challenge
AS the two chambers of the National Assembly resumed plenary after a long break, what is confronting them is another daunting task of national cohesion through law making.
Boko Haram bomb factory find
After the United Nations House was bombed in Abuja on Friday, August 26th 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned the heads of the Security agencies to an emergency meeting in Aso Villa.
Beyond tinkering with our national security
THE concept of using violence on innocent and defenceless people as a bargaining chip, especially over religious and secular issues is novel to Nigeria. Security agents are now faced with a massive challenge combating non-state actors that can be essentially classified as invisible enemies with no defined leadership, rational and plausible agenda.
