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 […]
Stop the hunger-driven looting now!
A FAIR idea of what anarchy looks like was witnessed in Lagos after the October 20, 2020 Lekki Toll Gate shooting. Patriotic Nigerian youths, responding to police brutality in Delta State, staged a series of street protests code-named with the hashtag: #EndSARS. It was initially a demand for the disbandment of the Special AntiRobbery Squad, […]
Questions over continued mass abductions
April 14, 2024, will make it 10 years since the first mass school abduction took place in Nigeria. On that day, 278 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno South, were sensationally hauled into captivity. After ten years of manhunt and expensive military actions, over 100 of them remain unaccounted for. Government officials […]
IWD 2024: Inspiring total inclusion
Friday, March 8 was the International Women’s Day, IWD, for 2024. The day is set aside every year to mark the trajectory of women’s struggle for equality to enable them develop their enormous potentials to help make the world a better place. This year’s edition marked the 114th edition of an event that has been […]
The need to develop our local football league
The 34th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations tagged 2023 AFCON which ended in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on February 11, 2024 proved to the world that the continent’s football has really come of age. This is coming weeks after the Atlas Lions of Morocco put up a scintillating display of football artistry which saw […]
Return to same-day general elections?
A BILL to take Nigeria back to the practice of electing all officials on the same day has passed the second reading at the House of Representatives. This means it has been adopted for full debate for possible approval by the lawmakers before being presented to the president for possible assent into law. Since the […]
