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Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that unknown to young cryptocurrency traders in Nigeria, terrorists are using their trade to fund terrorism in the country. Olukoyede said some of the people who receive money to trade in cryptocurrencies do not know that their financiers are sponsors of terrorism. […]
Continue ReadingRecently, faced with escalating violence across Nigeria, the president, Bola Tinubu, reportedly agreed with state governors to establish state police. The news excited those calling for state police in Nigeria. But the agitation for state police is misguided; it is based on shallow reasoning, not on a rational, hard-nosed analysis of the potential consequences. To […]
Continue ReadingNigeria first voted in presidential elections just over 43 years ago in October 1979. The introduction to this form of government was not very auspicious. Four years into the experience, in December 1983, Muhammadu Buhari, then a Major-General in the Nigerian Army, overthrew the system. Soldiers thereafter ran the barn for another 14 and a […]
Continue ReadingHappy New Year, Nigeria! According to the calendar of the Federal Government, insecurity is now ‘over.’ Following seven years’ worth of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd) meetings with security chiefs, various and persistent directives and orders, repeated budgetary provisions and outlays, declarations of intent and ambition, speeches at home and abroad, expensive orders of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a “lazy and uncaring Commander-in-Chief”. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday July 27, Odinkalu decried the level of insecurity in the country, especially the renewed attacks by terrorists in recent times. Also berating President Buhari for […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has recently been voted for as one of the safest countries in the world to live in. It has a zero-crime rate and you’re a lot safer walking the streets of Lagos than you are in London or New York. This of course, is one big fat lie! As part of his Eid el […]
Continue ReadingGLO With Pride! I decided to start my piece today on a positive note, since this administration believes that many of us, especially the media, thrive on harping only on the negatives in Nigeria. Last week, I mentioned the fact that many foreigners except the Chinese, are divesting and leaving Nigeria. This is true, but, […]
Continue ReadingFrustration and anxiety have driven major opinion leaders to a dead end of options on our worsening insecurity. President Buhari is being asked to literally outsource Nigeria’s internal security operations to some foreign power. Wole Soyinka, ever the incurable patriot, has pointedly suggested that the worsening security situation leaves Buhari no better option than to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has blamed the country’s current security challenges on the 1975 coup d’état which overthrew Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Muhammed to power. Sharing moments from a town-hall meeting on national security organised by the federal government in an interview on Channels Television, the Minister narrated how the Gowon government was planning to […]
Continue ReadingHave you watched the video clips of the gruesome execution of Lawan Andimi and Roypvil Dalyep by Boko Haram? Have you ever imagined what it feels like to take one’s loved ones away with hopes of reuniting with them waning with each passing day? Have you for once paused to ponder the pains and the trauma of Nigerians who have become widows, widowers and orphans as well as those whose means of livelihood […]
Continue ReadingBishop of Methodist Church, Ikeja Diocese, Lagos state, Bishop Steve Adegbite, on Sunday February 9, led members of his congregation to stage a protest rally over the incessant killings, kidnappings and other security issues plaguing the country. The protest march came a week after the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), […]
Continue ReadingNigerian vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday separately met with two top monarchs in Ogun State, Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona and the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, behind closed door. His meeting with the monarchs in company of the state governor is coming few days after Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan […]
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