How intelligence, technology, VCRU are closing in on Auchi–Okene kidnappers
By AKINDELE ADEGEBO For years, the Auchi–Okene–Abuja highway and its surrounding communities have carried a reputation that no Nigerian traveller would wish to associate with a journey home: the fear of being watched, followed, and intercepted by men who know the roads, the settlements, and the forests better than almost anyone. For criminal gangs operating […]
Why there will never be revolution in Nigeria
SINCE the uprisings and violent protests that have rocked some Arab nations 2011, some people had feared that such would be replicated in Nigeria, with the level of corruption across the country and the impunity with which our politicians loot the treasury.
Killing the people, killing the business(es)
THERE is the direct killing, like the one happening in the Boko Haram-ravaged states. Some human beings have to be eliminated for the country to move forward. So, for anyone Boko Haram gunned down, it is one less of the bad guys in our society; such people are not fit to co-habit with decent individuals.
Still on the centennial awards
THE Nigerian centenary celebration was to honour hundred persons, some, post-hummus. The number of the award recipients was deliberately pegged at one hundred so that it will conform exactly to the number of years of Nigeria’s existence. A number of questions ran through my mind.
Killing us softly
IN a famous major musical hit by the Black American female singer Roberta Flack, she described a man as “killing her softly, with his song”.
Does Nigeria need a Guantanamo Bay type detention camp?
THE ramming of two planes into the New York Twin Towers and co-ordinated attacks on other selected targets in the United States by suicidal Al-Qaeda agents on September 9, 2011, changed the face of terrorism in the world.
