Uprooting terrorists’ logistic supply chains
Nigeria’s war against terrorism and banditry has reached a point where military firepower alone cannot deliver victory. What began with the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009 has metastasised into a sprawling ecosystem of armed groups operating from forests, mountains and remote settlements, kidnapping for ransom, attacking communities, displacing populations, seizing land, rustling cattle, extorting farmers […]
When it matters to step aside
ON Monday, July 20, 2020, Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee probing the alleged financial malfeasance in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, set what should be the gold standard in all cases of alleged involvement in misconducts involving public finance. At the venue of the probe, Ojo was […]
As the 774,000 jobs kick off
PERHAPS the most ambitious mass-employment programme in the history of this country has just kicked off. The tweet by the Federal Government on Tuesday, July 14, 2020 that the programme had started effectively overrode the earlier purported suspension of the Special Public Works, SPW, which the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on Labour had […]
Resolving Nigeria – Ghana trade disputes
IT is cheering news that the hundreds of Nigerian-owned businesses earlier shut in Ghana are being reopened after over six months of closure. This might be part of a gradual easing of months-long tensions between the two West African Anglophone countries over trade disputes and a diplomatic spat, with Ghana more on the offensive. These […]
The danger in reopening schools now
WE stand firmly on the same page with the Federal Government that schools should not be reopened for now. Reopening schools at this juncture of the coronavirus pandemic is a romance with disaster. After a recent meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, announced that it was suspending plans […]
Ghana’s pledge to rebuild Nigerian diplomatic property
WE are mollified by the steps the Republic of Ghana has so far taken to vitiate the latest act of diplomatic hostility towards Nigeria through the demolition of buildings in the compound of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra. Some weeks ago, an agent of the Osu Traditional Council in Accra went to Nigeria’s diplomatic […]
