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 […]
Rimi: Another avoidable loss
THE unexpected death, Sunday, of second republic Governor of old Kano State and one-time Communications Minister, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, has lengthened the list of prominent Nigerians, who died suddenly.
Capital Flight
THE Nigerian economy is no doubt facing serious challenges. One of the challenges it is grappling with is capital flight which might soon assume the proportion of haemorrhage as Nigerians and corporate bodies are moving funds massively out of the country as well as changing from naira to dollar since September last year.
Those clerics’ visits to Yar’ Adua
ON Friday, April 2, 2010, the Chief Imam of the Abuja Central Mosque, Alhaji Ustaz Mohammed and other Muslim leaders, including Dr Ibrahim Datti Ahmad, disclosed that they were among a group of Muslim clerics who visited ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua at the presidential palace and found him well enough to have received and prayed with them.
Our Prosperity Is Tied To Security
The state of insecurity in the country is deteriorating. By the day, we are recording terrible cases of murder, assassination, violent robbery and extra-judicial killings without any one being brought to justice.
Happy Easter, but…
Today, we continue the celebrations of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, from the dead. The Easter period, in some Christian denominations, kicked off with the 40-day Lenten period of self-denial, while in some it started with Palm Sunday.
