Tackling light arms proliferation
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons across Nigeria is not a distant threat; it is an immediate, corrosive reality that bleeds communities dry of security, livelihood and hope. Pistols, assault rifles and improvised firearms have become the currency of violence, multiplying the lethality of banditry, kidnapping, communal clashes and organised crime. Where once […]
Time-up for Africa’s oldies
Africa’s newest president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, of Senegal was sworn in on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 in Dakar, an event that President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria joined his colleague heads of state and other dignitaries to attend. Faye, 44, emerged from a complex process characterised by sudden paradigm shifts. For instance, out-gone President Macky Sall […]
Demarcate, gazette all boundaries
THE territorial dispute between Okuama and Okoloba communities in Delta State is just one of the thousands of such crises in Nigeria. Okuama only became hot news reference point because of the massacre of 17 officers and men of the Nigerian Army, which took place on its soil. Nigeria is a place where government officials […]
Hard lessons for social media trollers
The situation that is unfolding around some frontline gospel music artistes and some bloggers will help teach people useful lessons about the sensitivity of social media engagement. Due to the Information and Computer Technology, ICT, age we are in, millions of people have capitalised on the allures and money-making potentials of social media applications, such […]
Prioritise local investors
Almost one year on, it has become crystal-clear that the President Bola Tinubu government is acting out a pro-West script both at the domestic and regional levels. The aborted move to lead the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, countries to “flush out” the military regime from Niger Republic was not motivated by our […]
A plea for Okuama indigenes
We join people of good conscience and the displaced indigenes of embattled Okuama and other communities taking refuge in the creeks to plead with the Federal and Delta State governments to intervene and ensure their safe return to their communities. It is almost three weeks since March 14, 2024 when some evil elements ambushed, slaughtered […]
