Worsening school closures as terrorists advance
Nigeria’s school-abduction crisis has become a grim instrument of terror, ransom, and psychological warfare. Jihadist groups, bandits, and kidnappers have learned that children are especially valuable hostages. Their abduction paralyzes communities, terrifies parents, and places enormous pressure on governments. Mass school abductions are generally traced to Boko Haram’s seizure of 276 girls from Government Girls […]
Making IPPIS effective against ghost workers
RECENTLY, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, disclosed that it discovered over 4,000 ghost pensioners among the 20,000 police pensioners it inherited. According to PTAD, the ghost pensioners were discovered during the ongoing pensioners’ verification and biometric data capturing exercise in Benin, Edo State.
Managing conflicts between military, NGOs
ONE of the worrisome fallouts of the war against the Boko Haram Islamic terror in the North East is the unhealthy relationship between our armed forces and the myriads of non-governmental organisations, NGOs, involved in humanitarian activities in the sector.
Bleak prospects for 2019 economic performance
These show a negative start to the 2019 economic and financial year. The second quarter is not looking better on some of the indicators. But we hope that some corrective measures should be taken to address the weak lines.
A new beginning for Zamfara State
It was among the six states created on October 1, 1996 by the late General Sani Abacha, who also created the unofficial six geopolitical zones evenly distributed between the North and South.
Speechless inauguration was wrong
MILLIONS of Nigerians were shocked and disappointed on May 29, 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari refused to make an inauguration speech after he was sworn-in for a second term in Abuja. That was a serious slight on a hallowed democratic tradition observed all over the world, even in countries with entrenched dictatorships.
