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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…
The friendly media parley between former presidential spokesman and one-time Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, and members of the press in a nondescript 5-star hotel in Calabar, the Cross-River State turned towards an abrasive end. In a viral video that surfaced online few hours after the coarse reaction between the Ile-Ife Chief and a…
Given the declaration on January 23 and 30, 2020 by the World Health Organisation’s International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee on COVID-19, ‘all countries should be prepared for containment, including active surveillance, early detection, isolation and case management, contact tracing and prevention of onward spread of COVID-19 infection, and to share full data with WHO,’…
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…
Nigeria is one of the countries that drive the wheel of the continent’s economic viability. Nigeria boasts of over 80% of the region’s revenue and a larger share index of the market made possible by a population that guarantees a viable Return on Investment, ROI, and a robust consumption of goods from all parts of…
The military of any nation is not a sheer ‘outpost’ for men in uniforms looking out for distress situations to intervene in. As a composite architecture of the armed forces and all its constituting elements, the military is indeed a strategic national guardian entrusted with security matters connected with lives and property within the geographic…
The Nigerian military is ranked 4th in Africa by Global Firepower (GFP), a world military ranking platform. The country has a military human power of 120,000 personnel, which is a total of 0.1% of a population of over two hundred million people. Yet, Nigeria has a population in which 43,000,000 people are generally considered fit…
Professor Yima Sen, Director General of the Northern Elders’ Forum, Nigeria, speaks on issues relating to the war against insurgency and insecurity in the North, and the topical question of political zoning in Nigeria, in a conversation with Udu Yakubu. Udu Yakubu: Recently, the Northern Elders’ Forum asked President Muhammadu Buhari to dwell less on…
