Year: 2016

Rivers Re-Run: Group Raise Alarm Over Plot To Blackmail INEC Chairman

REPORTER

An election observer and monitoring group, the Independent Service Monitoring Group (ISDMG) has raised concern over what it described as plot by desperate politicians to intimidate and blackmail the Independent National Electoral Commission  (INEC) ahead of the Rivers State senatorial elections re-run.  Speaking in Abuja, ISDMG Executive Director, Dr Chima Amadi said to this end, the group will be mobilising other civil society organisations to a peaceful protests aimed at drawing attention to the dangers of a continued assault on the Election Monitoring Bodies as we are currently witnessing. He urged the Nigerian…

Read More

Terrorism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

REPORTER

By  Madu John UCHE Nigerians always position themselves on the wrong path. To say, Nigerians are the only citizens of any country in the world, who eagerly exhibit unpatriotic spirit or posture to a national cause would be uncharitable, but that’s what often happens. In sober moments of reflection, when the conscience frees itself from the routine regulation of external forces, Nigerians in such eeriness and, prodded by the pricking of reality agree Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) have been degraded and defeated in the country. But under the influence of…

Read More

Arewa Youths To Military: Ignore False Media Reports

REPORTER

A northern youth group, the Arewa Youth Leaders Forum has urged the Nigerian military to ignore false  media reports by those they described as detractors and unpatriotic elements and focus on the assignment of ridding Nigeria of Boko Haram terrorists. The youths also cautioned the Nigerian media against allowing itself to be used as agents of distraction in the ongoing war against the insurgents. Addressing journalists in Kaduna on Sunday, National President of the group, Abubakar Abubakar urged Nigerians to disregard reports that attempts to portray the military in bad light,…

Read More

Boko Haram Funding And Demands Of Patriotism In Nigeria

REPORTER

By Bukar Raheem Much of the initial mysteries which beclouded Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) operations in Nigeria have been cleared. It is now in the open how the deadly terror group acquires arms and ammunitions, how it recruits, its funding, its agents and links to other international Jihadi terror sects around the world. BHTs permeation of all segments of the Nigerian society, including the armed forces and para-military organizations is public knowledge. Intelligence experts also know of their presence in the Police and their unassuming agents in the communities they…

Read More

Sacrifices Against Terrorism And The Burden of Appreciation

REPORTER

By Okanga Agila The dead from the latest Boko Haram ambush on Nigerian troops have been buried. Emotions spilled over and tears flowed freely at that burial. Even the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Tukur Buratai teared up remarkably when one would have expected that years of being battle hardened would have made him incapable of such expression.   Tears from the generals’ general  have been decoded from different perspectives. Top among the insight offered was the pains of losing gallant soldiers like Lt. Col. Muhammed Abu Ali with…

Read More

Why We Must Allow Our Fallen Heroes Rest In Peace

REPORTER

By Sanmi Ola The death of Lt Col. Muhammed Abu Ali and six other troops cast a pall on the nation, opening the month of November on a sad note. Those deaths were preceded in September and October by some other casualties in the war theatre. Before them other gallant soldiers had paid the supreme price in the war to rid Nigeria of Boko Haram terrorists. And before that there have been thousand others that died securing the fatherland. One’s thoughts are often with the bereaved families considering the state…

Read More

Flood Of Tributes On Fallen Hero, Sign Of National Rebirth – Rights Group

REPORTER

A human rights advocacy group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has said the show of emotion and barrage of tributes that greeted the death of Lt. Col Abu-Ali and six others is a testament that Nigerians recognize Boko Haram and it’s sponsors as a common enemy. Addressing a press conference in Abuja, Executive Director of CESJET, Joyce Adamu said such tributes and high accolades are the best tonic that every nation needs to give to her heroes. She however cautioned those she described as mischief makers who…

Read More

Buratai Blames Renewed Boko Haram Attacks On Secret Support

REPORTER

Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has attributed the re-appearance of high profile attacks in Nigeria’s Northeast to the support that the Boko Haram terrorists get from some individuals. The Army Chief emphasized an urgent need for a renewed local and international support to end terrorism in the country and globally. He made the remarks at the sideline of a meeting with a security delegation from the Atlantic Council, African Centre in the United States of America. “We have some elements who are within this society and are…

Read More

Nigerian Army And Its Deliberate Persecution

REPORTER

By Philip Agbese The Nigerian Army (NA) is facing one of its worse moments in the history of its existence in the country. It is confronted with the difficult and unenviable duty of quelling internal insurrections across the country. Those conversant with the core mandate of the army would agree that such domestic assignments are outside the gamut of its original responsibility of protecting the sovereign territorial boundaries of Nigeria. And despite its milestones in the enthronement of internal security and peace to troubled communities, soldiers are being daily persecuted…

Read More

Globalisation And The Larger Project Of Nigeria Renewal

REPORTER

My fellow citizen ask not what Nigeria will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of ourselves. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. When men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can separate them, neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single conscience, a single dignity will…

Read More