Tag: insecurity
Nigerian Rebasing And The Making Of A Phantom Economy
By Peter Claver Oparah And so storm tossed and weather beaten Nigerians woke up on Saturday, 5 April to hear…
Insecurity And Structural Injustice In Nigeria
By Femi G. Oguntoyinbo I was disheartened to read about the 17-year old boy who was beaten to death by…
Anambra Has Lost 5,000 Companies —Ngige
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 14 November governorship election holding in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, Senator…
Jonathan Has Failed —Mrs Fawehinmi
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed Nigeria and should be defeated in 2015, and his wife, Patience, has made things…
Women As Change Agents In An Emerging World
By Ijeoma Ogbonna As the impact of the worst global economic crisis is being felt the world over, one of…
INSECURITY: Military Seeks Civilian Support
The Chief of Defence Staff, Adm. Ola Ibrahim, on Monday in Abuja solicited the cooperation of the civilian population to…
News Analysis: The entire country needs a state of emergency
By Bayo Onanuga President Goodluck Jonathan, ignoring a last minute dissuasion by Nigerian Governors Forum, has slammed a state of…
Insecurity: Jonathan No More In Charge -Aturu
Human rights activist, Comrade Bamidele Aturu says President Goodluck Jonathan has lost control of the nation as high wave of…
Fashola: Nigerians Are Too Difficult To Please
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described Nigerians as very difficult people to please just as he says insecurity…
Onayekan, Kukah highlight Nigeria’s twin monsters
Two of Nigeria’s leading and respected bishops have told the European Parliament and other politicians that their country is being…
Growing Insecurity In Lagos
The spate of criminalities, including armed robbery, in Lagos State, seems to be on geometric rise The recent abduction of…
Insecurity Killing Nigeria’s Nation’s Economy –Gen Abubakar
Former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Tuesday expressed worry that the insecurity in the country was affecting the…
Obasanjo: Nigeria In A Toxic Situation
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has raised an alarm over the insecurity in the country and called on the present leaders…
Flood Disrupts MTN’s Network Modernisation
The effort by MTN Nigeria to modernise it network has suffered a setback due to the ravaging flood in some…
The Failure Of A State
BY YUNUSA KEHINDE SALAMI The prevalence of poverty, corruption, and general insecurity of life and property will naturally lead a…
Boko Haram: Nigerian-Lebanese deny fleeing Kano
Mr Tahir Faddalah, the Chairman, Lebanese Community in Kano, has denied media reports that members of the community were fleeing Kano State…
BOKO HARAM: Jonathan’s Phantom Peace Move
Although the Federal Government has admitted to making moves to engage Boko Haram in talks, there are certain mines in…
Obe, Bello Worry Over Nation’s Insecurity
The Institute of Security in Nigeria recently held its seventh annual conference with the theme, “Choice of revitalizing Security Services…
Insecurity: Police seek cooperation with NURTW
In an effort to stem the rising wave of violent attacks and loss of lives and properties, the Nigeria Police…
Nigerian Governor Blames Leaders For Insecurity
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on Thursday in Abuja came down hard on Nigerian leaders…
ACN urges Jonathan to call national confab
The Action Congress of Nigeria has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately convoke a national conference on the worsening…
Insecurity: Which Way Out?
By Isaac Asabor That the current state of insecurity is unprecedented should not be in doubt. What should actually be…
Nigeria’s editors decry state of insecurity
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday urged all stakeholders at different levels in the country to step up…
Insecurity: Northern Govs. Hold Emergency Meeting 26 July
Disturbed by the current security challenges confronting the region, the Northern States Governors’ Forum has fixed an emergency meeting of…
Insecurity, Food Security And Unemployment
By Tayo Ogunbiyi It is no longer news that the country has been under the siege of insecurity in recent…
Boko Haram: Be Patient With Jonathan —Disu
Chairman, Eagle Paints Nigeria Limited, Chief Akinola Disu, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the government over the…
Northern Elite Responsible For Insecurity
By Ben Nanagha If there is anything Nigerians are best at, it is the ability to pretend. Nigerians have globally…
Eminent Nigerians Seek Dialogue Over Nation’s Woes
Some eminent Nigerians on Wednesday in Lagos called for urgent national dialogue on the nation’s problems and possible solutions. The…
Engineer Suggests Ways To Tackle Insecurity
A civil engineer, Saint Eyitayo Baba Ikuomola, has said that the only way Nigeria can overcome the insecurity that has…
Boko Haram, Politicians And Taxes
As public servants loot our treasury and Boko Haram wreaks havoc and spills innocent blood, many are asking, ‘why do…