….Says Henry Okah and I are enemies Exactly five days ago, the amnesty offered by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, to Niger Delta militants to drop their arms took off. Arms depots have been set up but response has been low. It is not known how many militants will actually surrender their arms at the end […]

Police as your f(r)iend PROLOGUE By Ikedi Isiguzo, Chairman, Editorial Board LITTLE Kaosarat Saliu was radiant in her new hairstyle. Last April 5 was a day to her third birthday – she never made the day. Policemen at a check point at Alapere, Lagos shot her to death. The little girl and her parents, who […]

By Jide Ajani WHereas the Boko Haram sect’s forceful evangelism was hinged on the banishment of western education, describing it as haram (an impurity), the alleged, manner in which the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in Police custody is also being insinuated as another act of impurity, an extra-judicial killing.  This report takes you […]

By Umar Yusuf Yola – IT is estimated that over one hundred thousand Nigerians    have lost their lives in ethno-religious crisis that have engulfed the country since the enthronement of democracy in 1979. The number of those injured triples the dead, while those displaced are put at millions. The Maitatsine crisis in Kano in […]

By Innocent Anaba THE directive by President Umaru Yar’Adua  to the national security adviser (NSA), last week, to carry out a full scale investigation into the killing of Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the religious sect, Boko Haram, has brought to the fore  the issue of extra-judicial killings in the country. Yar’Adua  had described the killing […]