Digital security command centres – for fancy?
Across Nigeria, governors have unveiled security command and control centres with fanfare. Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Oyo, Gombe and Edo have invested, or announced investments, in facilities built around CCTV surveillance, drones, communications links, control rooms, data analysis and response coordination. Enugu’s centre is linked to AI-enabled cameras and long-range drones with day-and-night vision; Edo’s […]
America’s golden offer of coalition against terrorism
WE are absolutely overjoyed at the announcement by the world’s foremost military power – the United States of America – of an offer for a coalition against terrorism in Nigeria and the West Africa sub-region. The State Department, which broke this cheery news on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, said the Global Coalition to Defeat the […]
UAE and Boko Haram funders
THE recent conviction of some Nigerians living in the United Arab Emirates, UAE, for funding Boko Haram Islamist terrorism came as cheering news to well-meaning Nigerians. We are not used to achieving similar results in Nigeria since the insurgency started eleven years ago. The convicts bagged sentences ranging from life imprisonment to ten years behind […]
Response of Northern leaders to the #EndSARS protests
ON Monday, November 2, 2020, leaders from the 19 states of the defunct Northern Region met at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, and offered their response to the recent #EndSARS protest and subsequent breakdown of law and order. The group made up of prominent political leaders, top Federal Government office-holders, governors, traditional rulers and […]
WTO: Why US should support Okonjo-Iweala
For the second time this year alone, the United States of America constituted a stumbling block to the aspirations of eminently qualified Nigerians to lead major international organisations. First, it was Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, whose second term bid as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, was rejected by the US. America had opposed Adesina […]
SWAT: Beyond change of name
The speed with which the name of the disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, was changed to the Special Weapons And Tactics, SWAT, team by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in response to the prolonged #EndSARS protests smacked of a well-rehearsed and anticipated containment tactic. It was the same manner in which former […]
