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 […]
COVID-19 ‘school feeding’ should be probed
WHEN President Muhammadu Buhari made his second national broadcast on the coronavirus pandemic on April 13, 2020 and said that the regime’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme, HSFG, would continue even after schools nationwide were shut for the pandemic lockdowns, Nigerians were shocked. People wondered how school children could be fed by the Federal Government while […]
Identify, neutralise IPPIS saboteurs
THE Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, the Bank Verification Number, BVN, and the Treasury Single Account, TSA, were technology-based instruments to fight corruption and money laundering at source and sanitise government spending. IPPIS, in particular, was meant to digitalise the payroll of the Federal Government and eliminate the ghost worker syndrome whereby corrupt […]
Use of foreign airlines for evacuation of Nigerians
THE appetite of our government officials for all things foreign has continued even in the face of our gloomy economic prospects arising from the new coronavirus pandemic. We have repeatedly called on the authorities to seize this moment and start looking inwards for solutions to most of our problems, but apparently our calls have met […]
Need to include pensioners in palliatives sharing
WHEN considering those who make up the “poorest and most vulnerable” members of our society who should be eligible for palliative packages being distributed by governments and public-spirited individuals, women (especially widows) children, destitute and elderly primarily come to mind. After about six weeks of restrictions and lock-downs many more people are becoming poorer and […]
On hotel demolitions by Gov Wike
WE’ve had occasion to commend some state governors for their firm resolves to implement their Executive Orders aimed at securing the lives of residents in their states in the coronavirus pandemic fight. One of such was Governor Nyesom Wike who acted proactively when Caverton Helicopters violated the order closing the land, air and sea borders […]
