Armed forces personnel and social media exposure
Social media has become a torchlight and a tripwire for Nigeria’s armed forces and security agencies. It has enabled the public to expose alleged oppression, corruption, and abuse that might otherwise remain buried. In January 2024, soldier Ruth Ogunleye used TikTok to allege sexual harassment, intimidation, and abuse by senior officers. The Army investigated and […]
Insecurity: Another case for state police
THE Department of State Services, DSS, in a recent joint security operation, raided the Ibadan residence of Yoruba self-determination agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. The raid, according to the DSS, resulted in a gun battle which led to the death of two of Igboho’s men, arrest of 13 persons and discovery of a cache […]
Halt Odebunmi’s toxic Media Bills
SEVERAL credible mainstream media houses have been warning of the havoc that Olusegun Odebunmi’s Nigerian Press Council, NPC, and National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, amendment Bills will wreak on the media industry and our constitutional democracy if they sail through. He will succeed in achieving the total subjugation of the highly reputed vibrant and independent Nigerian […]
PIB’s vexatious 30% frontier fund
NIGERIA’s general incompetence in managing its diversity has been at play in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saga. Thirteen years after the late President Umaru Yar’Adua introduced it as a follow-up to his efforts to douse militancy in the Niger Delta, a second attempt at making it into law has exhibited a total miscarriage of […]
Super Eagles: Sanction Joseph Yobo now
WHEN Joseph Michael Yobo, former Captain of Nigeria’s senior national football team, the Super Eagles, was appointed Assistant Coach of the team, opinions were divided in football circles. Those who applauded the appointment pointed to his rich resume which included the rare accolade of being capped 101 times as he represented the Super Eagles at […]
Lighting up the North East
FOR the people of Bauchi State, Sunday, June 27, 2021 was a historic day. For the first time in years, the people of that part of the country who have lived in dread of Boko Haram terrorism and the rash of highway kidnappings came out in their overflowing thousands to watch vintage football exhibitions at […]
