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 […]
Is everyone a robber?
THE police can go to ridiculous ends to cover its poor investigation skills. Sometimes it intimidates suspects in order to extort money from them. A case in point, obviously one of the many that managed to get to public attention, is that of Iyabo Ojo, a pregnant woman who the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in […]
Jiffy Justice
THINGS are getting better, depending on who you are, and what you are looking at. In the past few months you would have noticed that justice is available speedily, actually in a jiffy, for a select few, who approach the court with cases that serve special interests.
Civil War – 40 Years After
FORTY years today the Nigerian Civil War that set Biafra, against the rest of Nigeria, ended when Col Philip Effiong surrendered to then Col Olusegun Obasanjo. It ended a 30-month hostility that claimed millions of lives.
Rebels Against All
IT is difficult to appreciate the dimensions of national conflicts until the victims include some distant and unintended targets. The attack on the Togolese team to the Nations Cup in Angola again restates the unresolved conflicts in Africa and their implications for the global village. We may mouth the import of globalisation, but we fail grossly to see that what hurts one, affects all.
Our Embassy Officials
OFFICIALS of the Nigerian Embassy in the United States took detailed interest in the aircraft bombing case involving Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and were present at the court sessions.
