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Despite persistent efforts by the West to discourage Nigeria and other African countries from close economic partnership with China, relations between China and Nigeria has continued to grow, opening new vistas of opportunities every year. With so many economic advantages emanating from this partnership, it would be a huge miscalculation if the African giant fails…
For 94 years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been a strategic and vital instrument in helping China’s government advance its policies and programmes to achieve national developmental goals. Marking its 94th anniversary on 1st August this year brings into focus the role that this military organisation has…
Very few developments exemplify the fast pace of positive advancement in the Nigerian Navy in recent months more than the recently launched Falcon Eye Surveillance System. This is a unique maritime surveillance facility that incorporates various sensors located along the nation’s enormous coastline. Falcon Eye has special facilities like radars, long-range electro-optic systems with thermal…
Presently, Nigeria is confronted with a plethora of security challenges ranging from the ubiquitous farmer-herder conflict to banditry, kidnappings, abductions, and revived secessionist movements. The list seems endless. For a long time now, the Nigerian media space has been blackened with shocking reports of persistent violent attacks nationwide. From the north to the southeast and…
Nigeria is in a state of war. A few months ago, the war was in the northeast. But today, it is ubiquitous. The entire country is now the theatre of violent engagement. Up until January this year, and raging as they were, Boko Haram had no Nigerian territory under their control. But today, they are…
‘We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are,’ said Anais Nin, a famous American diarist. The manner in which the citizens of any nation adjudge their position with the law and its capability to produce well-deserved justice for everyone is as important as life and death. It is no…
Africans, and indeed most people across the different cultures of the world, can relate with the maxim, ‘whoever does not work, should not eat.’ Embedded in this short saying is the primordial principle of human dignity and work values. From Kenya to Ghana and Lagos in Nigeria and many other cities, it is commonplace to…
Nigeria is no doubt in the middle of an unprecedented throe of security challenges. In the last one to two decades, the country has witnessed a spate of violent ethnic agitations and religious extremism that snowballed into the breach of peace and insurgency in parts of the country. From incensed Niger-Delta militant agitations, through MASSOB…
Appreciated from its experiential and sociological dimensions, illusion signifies the occurrence of an erroneous or misjudged perception or understanding of an experience. It is the other side of truth or reality, especially a faulty reality that that emanates from poor judgement, prejudice, or a laid back mental attitude. Modern history is replete with examples of…
The military is a thing and place of pride – a national pride! Watching many military parades, the men in starch-embalmed uniforms often command from the on-looking public a temptation to join the ranks of the marching soldiers. The army, and indeed the entire military of Nigeria, has been at such commanding heights of national…
