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The invasion of Abuja by migrating herders from Niger
LAST week, there was palpable tension in council areas of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as news filtered through that hundreds of migrating herders from Niger Republic had made their way into the territory. According to…
On the contingent of youths arrested by Amotekun in Ondo
LAST week, tension reportedly gripped residents of Okitipupa in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State following the arrest of youths from the northern part of the country by men of the Ondo State command of the Western Nigeria…
Nigeria Customs in the eye of the storm
ON Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges decried last week’s invasion of the popular Oja Oba market in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), during which they allegedly…
Buhari, it’s almost getting too late to act
THE state of security in Nigeria has continued to agitate the minds of virtually all Nigerians. Never in the history of the country have things been this messy and uncertain. Hardly does a day pass without teary concerns about the country’s…
Governor Ortom on Buhari and killer Fulani herdsmen
THE head of a sub-national government in the North Central geopolitical zone, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, cut a sorry sight while lamenting the massacre of 70 people in the state by the killer herdsmen of Fulani ethnic origin…
Nigeria: Third worst governed country in the world
FOR any student of Nigerian history or close watchers of its current affairs, the country’s lugubrious ranking on the inaugural Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI) released last week by the Singapore-based Chandler Institute of Governance…
Nigeria as worst country in global electricity access
IT must certainly be distressing, though not necessarily shocking, to realise that Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has overtaken the Democratic Republic of Congo with 25 per cent of people without access to electricity, making it…
The Abuja drugged cookies vendor
LAST week, another episode in Nigeria’s theatre of the absurd unfolded as operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested two Abuja-based partners who allegedly specialised in selling drugged cookies to inhabitants…
The killing of Olokose Ojo
BARELY six days to his wedding ceremony scheduled for March 12 and 13, Mr. Olokose Olusola Ojo, a member of staff of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, fell victim to a gruesome subterfuge by a trusted friend and neighbour who had…
RRS officers’ good example
IT would be quite natural, given the endless list of illegalities perpetrated by errant officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), for Nigerians to wonder if anything good could ever come out of the force. But if experience over…