Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release
When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
CDS Olonishakin and Nigeria’s rising military profile In Africa
Without any attempt to flatter, a dispassionate assessment of the appointees, President Muhammedu Buhari has made in sensitive areas reflect his innate persona and leadership qualities. They are usually honest, strict, thorough, focused and brutally blunt in the performance of official duties. Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin is one such […]
Fighting corruption in Nigeria: Two timely interventions and one anti-climax
Three important documents released in the past week – respectively from Nigeria’s federal government and two by respected international NGOs, Chatham House and OXFAM – separately offer important insights into why the present effort to fight corruption in the country is stuck in a mire. Together, they offer a more coherent synthesis of how fighting […]
Re: Of godfathers and judicial pronouncements
Do judges conduct fresh elections inside the courtroom for the two contending candidates who come before them for adjudication?
Confronting the power challenge
Groups with capabilities to provide power should be given permission to do so. Enough of the exploitation and manipulation
How to make Nigeria work by Atiku
The reality is that our nation does not work well whether we focus on security, education, economic production, employment generation and people’s welfare or we focus on governance and politics or the relationships among our diverse ethnic, regional, and religious groupings. Our government relies excessively on rent derived from a single export product, crude oil, […]
