NSCDC custody deaths and Nigeria’s detention crisis
Recently, thirty-seven illegal miners were arrested and detained in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna but never came out alive. That grim fact alone demands a thorough reckoning with Nigeria’s detention system and the accountability of agencies entrusted with the custody of lawfully detained citizens. Whatever offences they […]
Allocate more pension assets to infrastructure
THE new pension system, the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, envisaged a robust, just and guaranteed pension life for Nigerian workers. Vanguard joins well-meaning Nigerians and Labour leaders, both serving and retired, in supporting the new system. We believe that aside some of the out-layers, especially the disgruntled employers, including some state governments that have refused […]
Awaiting US help in naming terror sponsors
HOPES were buoyed recently when the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, disclosed that the world’s foremost superpower is ready to assist in exposing those behind terrorism in Nigeria. At a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday, May 30, 2021, Leonard was asked whether the USA was willing to name terrorism sponsors in […]
Leveraging Buhari’s Imo visit to benefit South-East
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s one-day official visit to Imo State on Thursday, September 9, 2021, was more of a visit to the South East zone as a whole. Outside election campaign times, it was his first visit to that part of the country as an elected president. He was received by a cross-section of the Igbo […]
Terrorist attack on NDA
With the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorism seemingly dying down in the North East, Nigerians have to brace up for the possibility that the North West may have increasingly become the new terror epicentre of the country. On July 19, 2021, an Alpha military jet was shot down by the militant groups which government calls “bandits” on […]
INEC as the chief driver of electoral reforms
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been the chief driver of electoral reforms in Nigeria since former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Prof. Attahiru Jega as the Commission’s Chairman on June 8, 2010. Apart from conducting elections in which opposition parties regularly won, Jega pioneered the Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, and Smart Card Reader, SCR, […]
