Tag: insecurity
Tenure Extension: Confab Boss Disowns Delegate’s Demand
The Chairman of the 2014 National Conference, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, and other Principal Officers have dissociated themselves from comments…
Insecurity: FIRS shuts three offices
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has shut three of its offices in Adamawa because of insurgency, NAN said. The…
Bomb Blast, Abducted Girls And Insecurity In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare The spate of insecurity in the country is becoming very alarming. While we are yet to come…
A Nation Adrift
International monitoring agencies occasionally rate how well or unhealthy a nation fares. Whether it is the Human Development Index, HDI,…
National Confab: Face security issues, says Okorocha
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has called on delegates at the national conference to concentrate on matters that will improve…
Bi-Partisan Meeting On Security, Good Step But…
For about the first time, President Goodluck Jonathan, governors of the 36 states of the federation and all members of…
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…