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 […]

IN one of his rare public outings, the National Security Adviser, NSA, retired Major General Mohammed Babagana Monguno, penultimate weekend appeared to confirm the worst fears of some stakeholders in the Niger Delta when he announced that he had advised President Muhammadu Buhari to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP. The NSA complained that the […]

IT is unfortunate that most of the state-owned universities and other tertiary institutions have lost the logic and purpose of setting them up. These institutions are not supposed to be there merely for the prestige of the states or governors who took the decision to set them up at huge public expense. They are to […]

The reappointment of Professor Mahmood Yakubu as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for a second five-year term by President Muhammadu Buhari evokes mixed feelings. He is the first person to ever enjoy that privilege, and this conforms to Buhari’s well-known personal tradition. Buhari is the leader to retain Ministers, Service Chiefs and […]

Over ten days since the Inspec-tor General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, ordered the Assistant Inspectors General, AIGs and Commissioners of Police, COMPOLs, to mobilise police personnel back to their beats, Nigerians have had to endure the unsavoury and uncanny situation of near-total absence of law enforcement agents in the polity. In the major urban areas, […]