Nigeria Is a Failed State The first step to restoring stability and security is recognizing that the government has lost control. By Robert I. Rotberg, founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and John Campbell, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign…
Simply put, a secured society is not necessarily one that has no challenges or problems. Security is not absence of threats. It is the ability of the state to ensure that people within its jurisdiction go about their daily endeavors without any threats to their lives, families and properties; or if such threats or challenges…
By Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum How time flies! So its already three years since Bala John Takaya, President of the Middle Belt Forum died! How nice it would have been to have his perspective of what is happening to our Nigeria! He was introduced to me by my uncle, Yakubu Muri Tuktur, a Deputy Registrar then…
Cross River state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has sacked four commissioners and five special advisers in his cabinet. Ayade who was elected for two terms on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had on Thursday last week, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The sacking of was announced in a statement…
A former judge of Enugu State High Court, Stanley Nnaji has been killed by gunmen in Enugu, the state capital. He was said to have been shot severally beside the Enugu Diagnostics Centre, by Ebeano Tunnel, after he was blocked and dragged out of his Mercedes Benz Jeep. The Enugu state police commissioner, Mohammed Aliyu…
The Imo state police command said the killers of Ahmed Gulak, former political aide to ex President Goodluck Jonathan, had been “neutralized.” Gulak was killed on Sunday by gunmen in Owerri, the Imo state capital on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Abuja. Spokesman of the Imo state police command, Bala Elkana,…
