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.
When intelligence failed Nzeogwu
It is nearly 50 years since Chukwuma Patrick Nzeogwu exited this world in an ambush around the Nsukka axis during the early months of the Civil War. The young army Major made headlines following the first military coup d’etat of January 15, 1966 which his group codenamed Operation Damissa.
Electoral law amendment bill and Mr. President
POLITICIANS generally start planning for the next elections from the day they are sworn into an office. They seek out individuals, who will help them make their dreams come true, and when they become convinced about their common interests, political party differences disappear in order to remain in power and office at all costs.
The Rivers of Blood in Asaba by Fani-Kayode
This essay is about one of the most horrific events that has ever taken place in our history and one of the most graphic examples of ethnic cleansing that took place during our civil war.
Why ICC must prosecute El-Rufai
The Zaria pogrom of December 2015 is an incident that has permanently been recorded by history and the major actors and stakeholders already have their names written boldly in the black books of history. There is no way the genocide perpetrated by the Buhari regime on the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) members can ever […]
How not to incite oil communities
VICE PRESIDENT Yemi Osibanjo, who, like the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, is fond of telling people what they want to hear, declared in passing that oil companies should relocate to producing environment in the Niger Delta.
