boko haram

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The Buhari administration is challenged socially, economically and politically. Opposition is mounting and coming in different forms and from different fronts. There are still some elements within the Boko Haram …

I have taken a hard look at events over the last several years and especially the most recent twelve months. I had all the time been very optimistic about the …

Even the most implacable critic of President Buhari would have to concede that Boko Haram’s capacity to “shoot, slaughter and kill”—as its avowed means of establishing Allah’s loving and peaceful …

Last Sunday (May 29) the Buhari administration marked its one year in the saddle. On May 29 2015 after the presidential poll in March marked by political intrigues (including the …

A peculiarly Nigerian type of frenzy happened last week. The event was triggered by a report that a young woman named Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the more than 200 …

Recently London played host to a host of countries in an elaborate well-attended Global Anti-Corruption Summit. The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari was among the scores of Presidents, Heads of Government …

I was disturbed by a report in last Sunday’s edition of The Punch newspaper. It read, “Buhari orders military to crush new Niger Delta militant group”. It’s meet to quote …

No matter how hard one tries, it is difficult, almost impossible, for any Nigerian to pretend not to be angry with the way things are going right now. Even those …

Last Wednesday, I got a phone call from a reporter at one of Italy’s major newspapers, la Repubblica. It was the second anniversary of the abduction of more than 200 …

Of late, the Nigerian news media – print and electronic, regular and social – has been awash with information of how the security forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria …

The attention of the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff must be drawn to the disgusting video trending on social media about the inhuman treatment of a young man by the …

If Nigeria, against perceived and preconceived mischievous intentions, could survive the year 2015 unscathed, it is now clear that Nigeria’s disintegration is non-negotiable. The year 2015 experienced a 12 month …

A name that has always been associated with controversy as far as the issue of national security is concerned, both during the military era and our present democracy, has been …

So much have been said and written about the Mohammadu Buhari led administration’s commitment to completely ousting Boko Haram from the remaining swathes of territory it still controls in Nigeria’s …

The large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) occasioned by the Boko Haram scourge in the North East of Nigeria represents to most Nigerians their only knowledge of IDPs and …