Zamfara State remains the hotbed of bandit terrorism in Northern Nigeria. It was from here that bandits, consisting mainly of Fulani nomadic herdsmen who turned to crime, spread to nearby states such as Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger and the fringes of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Governor of the state, Dauda Lawal, was recently […]

WHAT do we do with our nomads and pastoralists, some of whom have become major perpetrators of insecurity in Nigeria? Some among the once peaceful occupational group has become armed and violent; massacring people, displacing communities all over Nigeria and seizing the lands of indigenous people who had allowed them to graze their livestock when […]

FOR the first time in Nigeria’s history, we have practised unbroken democracy for a quarter of a century. Since the movement of the seat of the Federal Government to Abuja in December 1991 by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida, democracy has been given an uncommon impetus to flourish and bear the fruits romantically […]

Nigeria’s music sensation, Patrick Okorie, popularly known in the Afrobeat world as Patoranking, last week announced with justifiable glee, his graduation from the Harvard Business School, which is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts in the United State of America. He shared photos of himself posing with Professor Anita Elberse, a lecturer who received a special mention […]

Nigeria’s failure status is manifest in every direction. State failure simply means the inability of a country to maintain law and order, develop properly, protect its people and defend its territorial integrity. The strength of the armed forces, police, security and paramilitary organisations is not in their ability to harass and intimidate innocent and law-abiding […]