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 […]
Caring for our living environment
IN many ways, there are close relationships between road networks and the blood vessels in the human body. As the veins and arteries help supply life-giving blood to all parts of the body, we carry our goods and services through roads to all parts of the country.
War against energy crazy bills
It mandates them to provide consumers with meters within 30 days of extending their services to them, failing which fines of between N500,000 to one million naira are prescribed, or a six-month jail term or both. It also protects the consumers from arbitrary disconnection.
Gov El Rufai’s ‘bodybag’ gaffe
The main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has also mounted intense pressures on the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and drawn the attention of the international community to what it described as ploys to “rig” the elections.
Borno hunters to the rescue
IT is hardly surprising that the Borno State Government has resorted to enlisting the services of local hunters to assist in the war against the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents. The recent trip of a delegation of Borno leaders to the Presidential Villa to cry for urgent help to contain the resurgence of terrorism showed a need for extra measures by all stakeholders.
Niger Republic and our 2019 elections
NIGERIANS have been watching with utter bewilderment the increasing, unabashed involvement of Niger Republic in our affairs since 2015.
