NIGERIAN PRISONS: From Correctional Centres to Criminal Hideouts
Nigeria’s correctional facilities, ostensibly designed to rehabilitate offenders and protect society, have instead become operational hubs for criminal activities, according to recent revelations that expose the systemic rot within…
Shadows of Insecurity: Kidnapping, violent crimes crippling the South-East
In recent years, the South-East region of Nigeria – comprising Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, and Abia states – has been engulfed in a dark narrative of kidnapping and rising…
Go Away, Muhammadu Buhari!
By Sonala Olumhense It is sad to hear from Muhammadu Buhari, who has led Nigeria for a total of 10 years—including eight as a ‘reformed democrat’—that he now lives…
IG Egbetokun’s Tenure — Setting The Record Straight
By Rule Of Law Abd Accountability Advocacy Center (RULAAC) On July 23, 2024, the Nigerian Senate approved an amendment to the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, extending the tenure of Inspector…
Opinion: Gov Uzodimma’s Grandmother Of Parties
By Steve Osuji Agba ballerHow much is money(it’s nothing)Balling, ballingPremium or nothingLuxury or nothingMoney is talkingNow you knowEbelebe ga-egbuFa ga-ekwete na o na-emeAyagaya, mbombom… (Abridged lyrics, by Flavour) HOPE AND…
OPINION: 14 Jan. 2023 Failed Assassination On Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere
By Gerard Okalla Today, 14th January, in history, is the date Ideato people, Imo state in particular and lovers of democracy in Nigeria, would remember as the day marking the…
OPINION: Still on the Ongoing State Police Debate
By Okechukwu Nwanguma The discussion surrounding the establishment of state police in Nigeria is gaining momentum among governors, highlighting the need for localized security solutions. However, there is a consensus…
Ndígbo Not Opposed To Protests
By Uche Onyeagucha My attention has been drawn to numerous articles that Ndigbo are opposed and do not support the present National protests against Bad Government and Hunger in…
A Pattern of Terror: The Targeting of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Leaders
By Steve Uzoechi The recent demise of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has once again cast a dark shadow over the Igbo leadership. His passing, marked…
Crime Fighting: How CP Danjuma is winning the people, winning the war
By Steve Uzoechi Following the #EndSARS protest that happened in October 2020 and the April 5, 2021 prison break in Owerri, the Imo state capital, security of lives and…
Nigerian Pilgrim Commits Suicide In Saudi Arabia
Hajia Hawawu Mohammed, a Nigerian pilgrim from Kwara State has reportedly committed suicide. According to Kwara State Muslim Pilgrims Board, she was suspected to have killed herself from the…
Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway: Stop Inciting Igbo Against FG, Umahi Warns Peter Obi
Minister of Works, Engr Dave Umahi, has accused the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, of inciting some of the people of South-East against the federal government…
Yahaya Bello and a complicit judiciary
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Josiah Majebi is the fifth Chief Judge of Kogi State (in north-central Nigeria) in four years and the fourth to exist almost entirely in the…
When The Calamity Of State Police Outweighs Its Advantages
By Pascal Ibe The same State governors who can go to any extent in the use of federal police to clampdown and intimidate their opposition or citizens, are vigorously clamouring…
Yahaya Bello and a complicit Judiciary
By Chidi Odinkalu JOSIAH Majebi is the fifth Chief Judge of Kogi State (in North-Central Nigeria) in four years. He has been in office as substantive Chief Judge since…